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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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, August. Let’s start with your early years growing up and which artists/ bands were most influential in shaping what you do now? I grew up in Sydney Australia and from an early age I would fly regularly to Italy to visit family. As far back as I can remember I always
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Beautifully realised, crushing, poignant, engaging music that satisfies and tempts all in one roll. Field Kit is led by violinist and composer Hannah von Hübbenet, who has collaborated with Berlin based pianist and producer John Guertler and the results are thoroughly engaging. I love the rich source that draws upon fizzy electronics and how they illuminate
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Time passed by so quickly I missed reviewing Carl M Knott’s most wonderful fourth album before its release date. Which in reality doesn’t really matter as music of importance should cause the same effect at any given time or date. From the serene impulse of Electric Sky to the twist of Fucked Jazz Melody this
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Originally recorded in 1970 but not released until six years later this is the sound of history and emotion coming to life. You can hear the hints of melancholy longing in amongst the joyous blasts and twists as horn punctuate and drums sizzle with José Mauro’s guitar strumming to the rhythm of it all charged,
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As the breeze of summer finally blows away the cold residue of an overlong winter so this perfectly timed compilation of reggae gems appears. If like me this also provides an excellent opportunity to get reacquainted with a host of these tunes then all the better. Some of this is just pure, celebratory bliss such
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This new album from Argy is full of surprises, tones and textures in ways that fully reveal themselves by a second listen. The Interior Journey is obviously the perfect title as the music traverses darker terrain, feeding on influences from the past, while retaining a thoroughly contemporary vision in terms of production. The mystical pulse
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Lovely production on this piece of music by Joseph Crime. That’s the first thing to say as each layer of intention is revealed so each heartstring is pulled. I like the way an imaginative array of sounds are employed across the spectrum too gathering a diverse selection of influences on the way, from the punctuating
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What can you say about this record apart from listen to it played loud in a dark, illuminated space. It saying something dangerous, unexpected but in in a completely comprehensible language, whether you experienced 1988 or not. Normally detuned voices leave me cold but there something about the nasty nature of the voice fuelling Merde