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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This begins a journey into the spaces occupying the margins between music and emotion. Advanced Public Listening Records has been conceived by industry stalwart Miho Mepo while eloquently redefining good taste in sound and the lost art of musical exploration. Spanning four discs of vinyl the compilation is a tastefully realised concept celebrating the power
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Beginning with an evocative splash of delayed reverberation time rapidly expands into the New Year as hopes, dreams along with a selection of desires tempt the mind. Once again Afterlife finely tune organic strains of music into likeminded thinking, this time round enveloping you in life reassuring instrumentation by replacing the clouds outside with a
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Let’s cut straight to the chase and Radio Slave’s sprawling epic Dub version which sends out reverberations that tease and tangle. Lou Hayter’s vocal makes its statement in the intro but from then on in only brushes sentiment across the deep, throbbing pulse of funky instrumentation running quite rightly to some ten minutes of excellence.
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Eric. Tell us about how your love of music and the piano came about, where you first remember hearing it being played and how you feel it expresses what you want to articulate through music? I have loved music since I can remember. Some of my earliest memories of music are
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I don’t often get too excited about Disco flavoured records these days as either the samples are tediously cliqued or it feels like retreating backwords on an never-ending loop, especially given there is so much more future excitement waiting to be found. That said, Sgt Slick & John Course’s Love Vision pulls certain heart strings
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Do all visionary roads lead back to Bam Bam Where’s Your Child. Somewhere along that journey a wrong turn was taken ending up in a very dark alley. But thank god for those murky spaces as some of our most impressionable music is found there in-between imagination and reality. What’s not in doubt is the
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This an exceptional release. An exception to the rules for its sheer depth of emotional story telling which is all at once about past memory, present tense and future hope. If you like the sound of music tearing your soul apart, reconstructing it with injected warmth and breadth then I would suggest politely you listen
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As originality in music continuously breaks down its good to return like a shot of summer sun to Afterlife’s next release tempting you with the element of continued surprise. By way of introduction a throbbing bass, followed by a twist of surreal synths which are then offset by the chime of exquisite keys. From there
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More often than not it’s all too easy to dismiss records that sound like they were deliberately created to mimic the past. Dripping desperately with lost nostalgia, viewed through rose-tinted glasses that don’t actually reflect the reality. Then again you hear Joseph Abruzzi’s take, which is probably better labelled as an assault on the senses,