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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Greg Fenton reviews mauv – Chainmail – all my thoughts Words are, after all, important. So are melodies. mauv splits the listener’s attention in two, between the breezy vocal essence drifting across these cool, tastefully intense grooves populated by repeating guitar notes and crisp drumming. And the synthesizers making their presence felt too along with
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Eureka explores the idea of intricacy to highlight intimacy. Samihe does this by visiting a series of contrasting moods across the emotional spectrum, adding distinctive characters to the music, each highlighting differing aspects of sonic gratification. However, not to lose sight of the central organic core of all this is the uncomplicated sense of bliss
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This is the first record l listened to today, back to reality. Between the two tracks, they collectively sound just like a crazy combination of various parts House, Techno, and Rave. Whatever. It’s exciting and sounds brilliant. What this record may lack in subtlety, it makes up for in being blatant. It’s not so much
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Let’s start with the premise that good music is simply that. Designed to sound vintage via its use of samples combined with appropriate live instrumentation the result remains resolutely emotional at any given age. Midnight Milan is a sedate, beautiful, tantalising piece of music, although only plays at a painfully short 2.40. Leaving you wanting
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Engaging 2024 via the language of machinations driven by futuristic numbers feels like a strangely appropriate place to begin the New Year. Although, in this world of upside-down nostalgia you sometimes don’t quite know in which direction music is pointing you. Is it evolving, or folding in on itself? Thankfully, this series of pieces are
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Celebrating the joy of dancing in easy pieces JJ Selects strips it all down to the essential meaning inherent within the rhythm for this latest release on his own, The Room In The Back. Each number feels deceptively uncomplicated and it’s that very directness which engages so powerfully here. Each drum beat and percussive flourish
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Fletch. Let’s start with your new single: Flexin EP. Tell us about your early influences and some of the records which inspired the making of three productions for the EP? My influences with music are so varied it could take me all day to list them all, however I used to
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Of course, these are the moments that we live for. Music ignites the soul, rushing through you like nerves excitedly on fire. It is Canelo Rodriguez’s life affirming vocals just as it is the cool breeze blowing through the trumpet, as it is the joyful rhythm of the piano dancing, then the drums. I’m glad
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You could say this record is all about the warmth of compassion. It also feels like sunshine rays or a night out dancing as it’s very much about rhythm, hot or otherwise. Resolutely musical, defiantly soulful but either way this likewise plays simply for the pleasure of it all. Rituals explores a fusion of styles
