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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It’s easy to get excited about this. Primarily because the vocal is so resistant to the cliqued charms of soulfulness. So much so that Wild Child tells its own story as abundant, fiery attitude explodes with devilish charm across tough, infectious synthesized motifs and fevered drum machines. And the craziness only gets really crazy the
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Your latest album: Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It (RareNoise) provides the soundtrack for a new documentary on the American Artist Cy Twombly, called Cy Dear. Can you tell us about how you got involved in the project and about its origins? I was contacted last year to compose
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Love this. Right from the moment the beats hit you know you’re in for a good time. Liquid Summer contains the sort of uber funkiness that you can’t help but move too. Its rolling, effortless grooves come primed with all sorts of atmosphere delights expanding across some ten minutes of mysterious temptation. Remixes come from
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A brilliant, imaginatively precise piece of music from Engyn. Supplying the sort of caustic, grainy electronics that really espouse the word Soul for the 21st century this is a challenging, brutal yet brilliant sound which teases and tears at the edges of melody transporting you to wherever/ wherever. It’s accompanied by an excellent remix care
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No Else aka Gábor Szeles works up a feverish intent with both of these new numbers for Dennis Cruz’s Lemon-Aid imprint. And once again they deliver plenty of attitude when it comes to sheer intensity. Opening with the heavy-duty funk of RockaRolla and its lippy Hip Hop voice announcing the title it’s all then down
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Almost saving the best till last W&O let VONDA7’s killer statement of intent complete December’s festivities in all sorts of tempting ways. Up-tempo beats push this captivating production forward as hints of melody only enhance the experience, while the artists own voice delivers the message you need to hear. There’s something altogether urgent about it
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Another label to complete the year with further highs sees the brilliant Re.You supply connected with innovative, forward pushing ideas which cumulate into the stunning Lifting Me. Driven by tough, vigorous percussion and moody intonations – both vocal and synthesised – this feels certainly typically special. Next, Calisi revisits Chicago as hot basslines along with
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Another killer release from the label this time has London duo Senzala deliver hot on the promise, percussion fuelled frenzy for your afterhours satisfaction. The title track does just that as funky rhythms incorporate atmospheric swirls of sound, amid punctuating drums, on this uncomplicated yet hard-hitting arrangement. Nitin & Alexi Delano then provide an excellent
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Welcome back to Magazine Sixty, Steve. You are in the process of crowdfunding a vinyl release of your Afterlife album Speck Of Gold from 2003. So the first question is why have you decided to revisit that particular album in 2018? Earlier this year I created a post on social media asking fans what they
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