Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Staniz. What inspired you to set up your own sample pack label Abstract Sounds? What do you think makes it unique given the vast amount of others on the market? When I decided to open Abstract Sounds, I thought I wanted to become a symbolic label for a musical genre whose
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Something else which has very definitely caught my attention today is the new single from LaTique. Featuring a rather wonderful vocal delivery from Kali Mija which drips with emotion despite being almost understated, its set to a background of smouldering keys plus unfussy drums seamlessly following a time-honoured tradition in House Music while proving to
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Released as a free download in support of Ukraine is this sublime production, The Passage. Centred on a few fundamental elements it is both the repetition of the melancholic, yet quietly explosive, keys along with the dreamlike breath of Alina Pash’s voice that captures the essence of its body and soul. Then the rugged dance
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Apart from creating inspiring sample packs (they do exist) Abstract Sounds also release inspired music. In this case the second of the series has tracks from Nerve Maze and also Staniz. The former delivers a probing exploration of delicate synthesis in the form of hot keys alongside an undulating shuffle of percussion as “Abstract 5”,
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Tapping into the past Dachshund’s title track, Division sequences deliciously smouldering moods together with pounding rhythms accompanied by fiery stabs. In a sense a tried and tested formula but one that works effortlessly well in this case. Corruption feels lighter in comparison as yet more Detroit influences reach their peak employing chiming synth lines against
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This record wants you to be quiet. To listen. To absorb all that it has to offer. Ether is an apt word to describe what surrounds the orbit of this collection of wonderful music from the composer Joram Feitsma. Textures, tones along with the architecture of sound are what’s at play here forming constructions of
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Capturing the essential qualities of musical flair this imaginative production fuels the fire of temptation with the title seeking out dusky atmospheres and a deeper resolution. Served by broken drum pulses alongside punctuating snares the haunt of Acid never seems far away adding a rich essence to the arrangement, supplemented by a rush of pads,
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Harry. Let’s start with your debut book charting the history of the DiY Sound System. Can you tell us about the actual process of how you wrote the book? (I was thinking in terms of remembering things, if you prefer to write at night or morning – did you write all