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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Chord progresses seek to enliven, refreshing the nature of the soul and is patently apparent here, Korean Frequency captures your heart instantaneously. Its dreamy, organic sequences fly free with notions of jazzy heavens, opening out onto a chorus of funkiness, as synthesisers soar while the accompanying drums and bass, simmer and groove. Proving to be
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This strange yet illuminating production almost feels as if the various elements play out in stark contrast, too disparate to glue together, however they do so and most wonderfully. Drums shuffle in uncertain directions, vocal snippets twist and turn, while a warm rush of strings and musical aspects enlighten, feeding directly into the soul. I
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The sound of electricity strung out across heavens high. Peace Of Mind is a deceptive title for a piece of music that is anything but. Fizzing with atoms dancing along the edges as bruising, unforgiving stabs plus tough, pounding drums create a perfect, rich intensity to get lost inside. It’s the uncomplicated yet direct nature
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You may have noticed that I don’t care about genres and neat filing categories, or what you should like and what year it’s ok to like it in. Music should always shake you out of compliancy, whether that’s emotional, or political, or poetic. Give it a go, who knows you might actually like it. And
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I can hear the echo of Steve Reich coursing throughout the veins of the repeating vocal loop contained within X5NRG. Although, It’s Gonna Rain, created in 1965, is radically different to this proposition which is much more about the juxtaposition between the rhythm of drums, alongside the blur of grainy textures, all of which make
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This makes me smile. Provoking exhilaration because all three productions are infused with such physical, evocative, forward-thinking thought, like excercising the creative process is all that matters. Music is important for that very reason after all. Not the tiresome reflection of endless worn out loops and the meaningless safety of nostalgic prevarication. That, and the
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The Spinners, I’ll Be Around is one of my favourite songs. That cool combination of hazy melancholy, coupled with its breezy grooves, talk up lost summer nights like an intimate conversation of times past. Specifically 1972. Which is what brings me to this collection from SoulMusic Records in the first place. Their sound produced throughout
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I review music I like. I love this. Approximately 28 seconds into Sacrifice and you don’t want the feeling to end, ever. Not that you understand every word but the meaning is clear. Something hot and heavy, like it’s important for basic survival. I doubt too much music is as to the point as this
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As the seasons ebb and flow into the solace of autumn so Ephemera bruises the fall with the aid of smouldering drums, alongside tell-tale signs of closing nights. Ignited by the addition of melodically charged synth lines the number sits somewhere in-between a dark heat and the competing rays of low winter sun. Eventually rising
