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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Doomed to Live is of course the theme tune to Sky’s Gomorra and just as thrilling are these accompanying remixes to the original’s Rock intensity. With typical excellence let’s begin with Davide Squillace’s two versions, his Ethnik Remix sequences a kind of rare beauty excelling himself with brushes of emotive piano motifs augmenting the brisk
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Always exciting to hear youANDme’s exhilarating productions and this latest for Cassy’s imprint is not an exception to that theory. Put It Back joins the words soulful and emotional together with the language of the dancefloor creating compelling, thoughtful music that will always have a place here. An Instrumental follows if for some reason you
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Forming an introspective yet incendiary explosion of music both of these new productions act as the debut release on the label from SXM Festival’s Julian Prince. Beginning with Orign you immediately get drawn into the web of sound that is all at once compelling and inventively challenging, as undulating landscapes of strange, imaginative signatures unfold
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Irezistibil begins this release like all possible futures have been channelled into one. Like a past amalgamation of those hot, filtered grooves from the 1990’s Horatio’s blinding production adds an array of positive, heavenly qualities to the already perfectly crafted arrangement of soaring funk and thumping beats – invented for the words feel-good. The deeper
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What I particularly like about this is that it isn’t obvious. In fact, I had to return to it the day after first listening to receive the wisdom of that. TD, aka Tomas Dahl from Oslo delivers a tantalising, not clichéd, account of beats, basslines and hotly fuelled keys which all do the unexpected and
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Focusing on four artists and their work, Stranger In The Night is the brand new escapade from Radio Slave’s Matt Edwards and this forms its first release. Ground Control sets the controls via a blistering, earthy workout in brute electrical force, rhythmic signatures and an abundance of soul. Punctuating keys drive home eighties influenced Detroit
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Like one of those head turning moments of clarity An On Bast’s beautifully energised production jumps out at you combining the rush of cool, fresh air alongside a defiant charge of emotion. Signalling her forthcoming album: Coherent Excitations, this single release sees Cloudscapes form into a brush of fizzy, electrical sequences that wash over with
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Degray’s Consciousness Mix of Memento paints a picture dripping with emotional energy while boasting an uncomplicated, yet deeply personal refection of creating his music. Its succession of simple beats and crisp percussion underpin the warm amalgamation of haunting, heart-aching pads alongside gentle hints of voice spanning some four and half minutes. Next, the Lost Mix
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You know something is on from the very moment the pounding kick drum begins, then as the intense bassline and accompanying undulating funkiness all pulse and carouse their way throughout the arrangement this proves to be inescapably excellent. Archie Hamilton delivers the sort of rich, intensity that is so completely compelling here and given that