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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Listening to Yard One capture the sounds surrounding their existence flies in the face of being typecast and that is the thing I like most about their creative work. It feels like musicians at play with a serious, inquiring intention dancing between various reference points while defining their own. I was never huge on labels
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These days disco samples tend to leave me cold. I’ve just heard it repeated once too often, especially when there are so many new sounds to be experienced, but as is always the case the beauty of music is its ability to surprise you. Things You Say loops a slice of history into an inescapably
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Please god don’t let anyone begin their review with a reference to music for sleep. This isn’t. It is, if you care to listen and I hope you do, Andrea Porcu‘s mid-expanding trip into the subconscious unfolding across some forty two minutes of rather gorgeous stimulating pleasure, created with the aim of seeking to relieve
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“I don’t have time to listen to your DJ mix. I don’t have time for DJ’s.” The perfect sentiment to accompany this killer piece of incendiary music, which doesn’t pull punches musically or otherwise. Sometimes sounds are so compelling it really doesn’t matter exactly when they were made, they inherently carry that timeless gene with
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The message is in the music. Music being the key word here. Playful, jazzy, certainly sassy this hot combination of rhythm and words does so divinely as they celebrate their favourite Portuguese beach club, Yamba. Next is the remix of Ashes of Snow from Clive Henry who explodes the tempo while lending the production a
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Something for the weekend? Originally complied and released back in the late seventies this fresh collection now adds additional tracks to the celebratory playlist doubling the output. Numbers like Rockers Nu Crackers by Glen Washington really garb attention while the production values of Price Far I’s heavy-duty Deck Of Cards now seem otherworldly, especially if
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In ways Of The Crowd doesn’t seem to quite fit together comfortably. In other senses it glows brilliantly tempting your consciousness to expand in ever provocative ways that are without restraint, dazzling and compelling. Based around an insistent shuffle of drums it’s the clever combination of soulfulness, as the interplay between different musical elements gathers
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The sense of anticipation building throughout the introduction of Follow feels reassuringly familiar, chiming with energy and the rhythm of life while touching upon the word anthem. That sensation is only enhanced as the synthesizers continue to build into quiet crescendo quivering with so much melodic potential you do begin to wonder how a vocal