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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Sometimes music is so joyous you just can’t ignore it. Lee Fields sings his heart out with a passion reserved only for a chosen few and aged 68 that blows most others out of the water. This song of yearning will strike a chord with anyone and everyone on the planet, comes punctuated by rolling
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From the very opening bars of No Snare the stripped down yet resolutely beautiful trumpet by Leron Thomas intones a suggestion of what comes next. Of course this being Pan Amsterdam a nod to the past is employed and while you may recognise the vibe blown there is a timeless quality to both their definition
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Brothers in arms Marius & Fabian see in the New Year in explosive style as their hot debut for the highly impressive ZEHN has a flurry of percussion and soothing bass ignite the stereo. The title track, City of Belem explores a diverse set of influences and yet hits hard via its pounding grooves, alongside
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Although this has been floating around for a few weeks now, causing all sorts of sonic damage, the need is to make sure your attention is caught before the year ends. Two equally excellent tracks adorn this release from the label, which has been increasingly building up a stunning set of releases. Renastere, kicks off
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Whether you find solace in music as escapism or something which charges you up this album’s scope of sights and sounds from C-Jay is quite something. Either way this collection of works generate awe-inspiring experiences to lose and then find yourself in. Avoiding the word ambient, although engaging irresistibly with ambience these terse arrangements reference
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Marco Mollo. Let’s start by asking aboutyour tack: Marechiaro which has been included on Alex Niggemann’s AEON 5 Years Compilation (released Dec. 7). Tell us about how your relationship with the label was first established and how you got this particular track signed to the compilation? In 2016 we sent some
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A stunning release to polish off the year with. DIRTYBIRD pull out all stops with this resilient, piano led number that is all at once beautifully jazzy, and yet rolling with a tough undercurrent underpinned by Amp Fiddler’s spoken message exonerating the future tense. Excellent, provocative music – the way it always should be. The
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ZEHN’s rising star is set to peak by the year end as this forward-thinking, defiantly funky number gets under way. Los Cabra aka Manuel Sahagun & Christ Burstein twist sassy percussion around a melodic bassline that instantly hooks you into their way of thinking, while atmospheric sequences and flourishes colour the edges of the stereo