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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Ben Sun is about to release his ‘Apex EP’ on Cyphon Recordings. Successfully hitting that sweet spot that straddles the space and time between the two, as far in the future, as it is in feeling the past, with a gravitational pull that draws you in closer with every new element. The talented DJ, producer,
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Contrast always feels like the best of intentions. Especially given so many things are almost exactly the same. The same arrangements of landscapes of endless familiarity for you to lose your sad reflections in. Or the same sounds inevitably sounding all the same. However, Kirk Barley turns it all upside down in due course by
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It’s also the ability of music to lift and transform mood which is yet another fascinating, invaluable asset in the artistic canon. Maybe it should be prescribed. That’s the thing I love about this album’s opening shot, Mondays’ Generation as it sings and dances, celebrating, confirming. Then you listen to the piano adorning HHOT and
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If you’re are looking for direction but find it difficult to ask try the exquisite notes peppering To Where Dreams Are, created via the fall in love landscapes of surrounding sound by Nourey. The detail lies very much within the uplifting (in the genuine sense of the word) breath of vision as an expanse of
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The ‘Love Interlude EP’ is Anna Cavazos’ new release on her own label Little Giant Records. A vocalist since the nineties, DJ and producer for over twenty years, we get the chance to put some questions to this multi-talent about her forthcoming EP, growing up in Montana, and about surviving on doner kebabs and cheap
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A piece of music which captures your undivided attention in moments issomething to cherish in days of boring repetition, endlessly repeating what hasgone before. Also, and importantly, this is a song communicating thoughts toyou in words. Which likewise seems increasingly rare within electrical genres. Musically it is evocative, driven by drums and the spirit of
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Down Jazz Records was founded by producer David Schwartz and is a boutique label from New York & Detroit. This week the label presents us with a super-heavyweight remix EP entitled ‘Rocket Love’ by a multi storied talent collective with remixes by tons of UK talent including Jimpster, Kaidi Tatham, Sean McCabe and EVM128. The
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Beginning at the point that this music generates a more personal conversation between artist and listener might be a good place to start our dialogue. The wealth of music currently being generated, which talks more about atmosphere and mood is almost overwhelming but I guess it is in some way now a true reflection of
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Is there really an infinite way of receiving these blends of sounds? Of listening to unfolding combinations of drones and sonic treatments pitched somewhere between ethereal, poignant and a reflective rippling across streams of consciousness. I don’t really know the answer to that but I still like experiencing the process. I guess from the album’s
