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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People come. People go. In the same direction, in opposite directions with different intentions. Those moments occupying the spaces in-between time and are the ones seeking out something fantastical as evidenced here. R.Cleveland Aaron’s journey into the expanse relies on copious investigations into the now and an escape to further beyond. His music can be
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Let’s start with the Art as the cover is the very first thing to grab your attention. Designed by Lyon-based street artist, Brusk the incendiary nature of the image matches the driven rhythms occupying Cook Strummer’s excellent selection inside. What sets this compilation aside is the exciting diversity of the music along with the different
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Cook Strummer. What struck me about the music you have released to date is just how varied it has been starting with Memories back in 2014 and more recently this year’s club fuelled, Atmosphere. How important is being musically diverse for you as an artist? Thanks for having me, Sixty !
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Like walking backwards in time this compilation follows the path explored by Lux and Ivy pointing you in the direction of the unknown in all its late-night wonder. Sounding like every piece of cinema you’ve ever fallen in love with these ode’s to lost love and off the beaten track suggestion provide a journey every
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Steeped in a history that’s currently sparking renewed interest in the UK’s take on the integration of Jazz and Funk these two gems from bands furtive early-eighties period set pulses racing. The trademark intensity still rings true as quick-fire drums and sparkling basslines underpin sultry vocals alongside cool, energised keys which all sound so resolutely
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Sometimes records remind me of the 1990’s in good ways that illicit scores of hot, tribal rhythms and thoughts of wide-eyed revolution. Love Triangle does that plus a little bit more with its creative use of contrasts setting blazing drums against deeper, evocative voices alongside curious musical tones that breath in enticing, haunting ways. Yet
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Three sizzling tracks from this relatively new artist ignites the airwaves with a combination of hot-wired cool and emotional soulfulness. Bayethe, teases you with staccato synth lines that soon evolve into something altogether more musical as atmospheric piano chords alongside mournful strings are heightened by the addition of cool percussion, plus a biting kick drum,
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Where will it all end. This journey into the deep recess of atmospheric beauty is both a radical and exciting one leaving you with the celluloid impression that you’ll never know quite what lies around the bend. Travelling in excess, hot-wired into a future of the possible is after all much more tempting than regurgitating
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Three is difficult. Not because it’s unduly awkward, or even too easy, but because it messes around with safe notions of genre to illicit music that feels tactile and occasionally dangerous to the touch. I don’t like every track on here but the vast majority pull on strings that ignite a flush of emotions, especially