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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Released as a free download in support of Ukraine is this sublime production, The Passage. Centred on a few fundamental elements it is both the repetition of the melancholic, yet quietly explosive, keys along with the dreamlike breath of Alina Pash’s voice that captures the essence of its body and soul. Then the rugged dance
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Apart from creating inspiring sample packs (they do exist) Abstract Sounds also release inspired music. In this case the second of the series has tracks from Nerve Maze and also Staniz. The former delivers a probing exploration of delicate synthesis in the form of hot keys alongside an undulating shuffle of percussion as “Abstract 5”,
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Tapping into the past Dachshund’s title track, Division sequences deliciously smouldering moods together with pounding rhythms accompanied by fiery stabs. In a sense a tried and tested formula but one that works effortlessly well in this case. Corruption feels lighter in comparison as yet more Detroit influences reach their peak employing chiming synth lines against
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This record wants you to be quiet. To listen. To absorb all that it has to offer. Ether is an apt word to describe what surrounds the orbit of this collection of wonderful music from the composer Joram Feitsma. Textures, tones along with the architecture of sound are what’s at play here forming constructions of
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Capturing the essential qualities of musical flair this imaginative production fuels the fire of temptation with the title seeking out dusky atmospheres and a deeper resolution. Served by broken drum pulses alongside punctuating snares the haunt of Acid never seems far away adding a rich essence to the arrangement, supplemented by a rush of pads,
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Harry. Let’s start with your debut book charting the history of the DiY Sound System. Can you tell us about the actual process of how you wrote the book? (I was thinking in terms of remembering things, if you prefer to write at night or morning – did you write all
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The thing about Jazz is that it etches something uniquely human into your psyche. It’s about the flood of memory, charged by the ignition of tomorrow, capturing the essence of life that only this music really does so successfully. This collection of numbers from the Netherlands, Klinkhamer Records as selected by owner Michel Veenstra is
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Wacht approaches you like a wave of uncertainty crashing across the wash of stereo in unpredictable, unnerving patterns. If the drums weren’t there to provide guidance, to anchor the unearthly nature of it all, it would feel very much free of form with a life defining its own determination. While the compelling list of sounds