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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(Photo’s by Gary O’Reilly) It’s a real pleasure to talk to Fish Go Deep, the much-respected Cork based, DJ and production duo. Staying to true to their roots and their vision to make music to touch the soul, stir passions and emotions. They are about to drop another spine-tingling, full-length player entitled ‘What I Mean
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The four souls making up Ensemble Ex Materia demonstrate the art of the possible to the ninth degree. Taking sounds and manipulating their presence in real-time lends the music the persception of being in the moment as atmosphere’s unfold, conjuring up the danger of the unknown in the process. Or to put that another way,
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There is quite often more to the world than first meets the eye. It seems to happen after a gentle scratch under the surface revealing names not readily caught in the net. Quite why they slip through isn’t always apparent, or fair to them and their memory. But here we are in 2023 listening to
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After gazing at the immersive cover art for what seemed like an age I finally pressed start. To which I was greeted by caustic, mind-bending rays of synthesizer landing at the point where you can instantly see the ice melting scenario unfold. Mercifully however, Cherry Red Neon Blues soothes the tension a touch next as
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Fabiano do Nascimento sounds like a musician playing with his heart and soul. On the sleeve, inside and out. The airy enhancements enacted by machines only come as an extension to that original integrity. Adding grace and space to the language of sounds as they fill the room with brushstrokes of emotion, colouring rainbows amid
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I’ve spent countless hours over the years thinking about Andy Warhol’s Art so much so that I’ve not given much thought to the music he liked. This collection of music pieces together tracks from albums which Warhol designed, or was involved with designing the covers for, when cover art was just that, Art. Before hitting
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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
