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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There is something brilliantly exciting about this joint production which ignites the party morning, noon or night. Fast and deliciously intense, percussive heavy grooves hit you time and time again as Puerto Rico’s Héctor Lavoe agitates the rush with his defiantly fiery vocals. Coming in four versions, which include an Instrumental and irrepressible Beats Mix,
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Magazine Sixty favourite Joeski delivers what he does best once again. I Want You teases you into submission care off tense, dark electronics plus a breathy rush of effected vocals from Liberty all compacted by unnerving snares. Retaining a strange sense of melody in there somewhere the production is never less than compelling, defining its
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Four artists supply four new productions for this first volume of contributors celebrating the labels eight year anniversary. And as you should expect it takes and then re-imagines history, reforming music into fresh shapes and sequences. Beginning with Point G’s excellent Love Yourself reworking its sample based groove with new and inspired electronics. D’Julz delivers
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Whitesquare lands firmly on Gruuv with this first-rate, sizzling infusion of chiming Mirimba’s offset by warm pads, funky percussion and a playful sense of musicality that resonates perfectly for the introduction of 2018. The excellent, Solivagant is all that and more. Who else but Pezzner could reinvent the production retaining the original essence yet transforming
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Enter the weird and wacky world of Dinosaur L at your leisure. Revisiting Larry Levan’s 1982 reworking of In The Corn Belt proves to be just as satisfying then as now. Still sounding futuristic, genre bashing and clearly mind-altering. Spread across a 7†in two parts Arthur Russell’s alter ego alongside Will Socolov gets treated
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Sunwasp is one of those holy s**t moments that doesn’t bother too much (if at all) about niceties or careful planning. Zen Haizer’s blistering Acid attack represents a gun full of attitude, smoking beats and unrelenting, furious electronic fever. Feast your ears below. Next, Match Point delivers a variation on the theme this time with
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Before I go releasing lots of hot words it is music just like this that I’ve been talking about at Magazine Sixty. Richly resonate, atmospherically tempting, reaching into your soul pulling out emotions to display across your face. Thoughtful, perhaps even politically suggestive. And yes you can deride all that from a piece of good
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