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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The pervading sense of strangeness that greets you upon pressing play is most welcome in this world of bland ordinariness. Moritz Fasbender plays and treats the piano with a fizzy, grainy flair that teases and ignites the words classical, experimental and a few more in-between. At times cascading notes risk their all in the pursuit
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Like a shot of pure energy Ladies From The Block fires fast and lose serving sizzling percussion together with a magnificent, thumping kick drum. You will also hear snippets of voice but for the most part it’s the sheer, breathless instrumental excitement that takes hold. In ways, Rolling Twist does similar things but in more
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In a way everything becomes a soundtrack. You only need to be awake to hear it surround you. In this instance the series of pieces making up the album are set to accompany freediver Johanna Nordblad as she tries to break the world record for distance swam under ice containing one breath of air. Directed
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Releasing music that is refreshingly imaginative and incisive the label continues in a similar vein with this latest transmitted via the expressive mind-set of Ottber and Felix Hk. The title track combines tough drums alongside the warmth of deep bass tones amid its almost gentle shuffle of rhythm. Next, the standout Time Issues defies gravity
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If you like the sound of music playing outside of itself, moving forwards, then this will excite your thought processes. Despite the somewhat contradictory title this effervescent production positively brims with a definitive array of ideas combing unearthly effects together with a tough heavenly pulse of drums and bass. Existing to be played at any
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Apart from love and hate what else is permanent in our throwaway culture. If you were to ask me I would have to say music, but then I am biased in that direction. It will also come as no surprise that I’m reviewing this latest work from Steve Hadfield who I have an ever increasing
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Etching out a sense of joy within its grooves is this latest of two prime productions from the gifted Noha. At least that’s what I think when encountering Tsukuba and its eastern melodies as they weave in and out of the tastefully arranged sequence of events that temptingly feel in-between robustly pounding and musically literate.
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The clue really isn’t within the title Ambient Jazz Ensemble that would be a much too simple way to describe the sounds they make. Based around the creative flair inspiring Colin Baldry there is an intensely easy rhythm to their music which is actually packed full of notes and emotions. You can also hear the
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In ways this reminds of one of Double Dee & Steinski’s cut-up’s from the mid-eighties as different elements cut in and out of view while leaving the echo of their own indelible stamp. Which in this case ranges from warped piano to jazzy interludes colliding with smouldering bass and pumping drums. Put it this way