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, Tamás. Let’s begin with the piano and why you feel the instrument has stood the test of time and its seemingly never ending capability of convening human emotion? Thank you for your interest. For me, the answers are in how the piano is built. It seems very simple, there are strings,
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Rob. Let’s start with your new album: Marching with Feathers. How long did it take to conceive and finish? I began recording Marching with Feathers in the spring of 2020 and I worked on it slowly over the course of several months in my home studio. I hear people refer to
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A song for our times. Rising Up sums up the yin and yang transcribing the capacity of music to effect the possibility of positive change. I think this has to be one of my favourite Afterlife compositions to date, something to do with that meandering, warm bass and pads accompanied by a summer of excitement
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Listening to Alan Russell’s debut album sounds much like a carnival of thoughts and experience, a lived-in celebration of sound all rolled into one. Presenting Project 268 under which he released previous solo projects this collection of the essence of past, present and future blends classic drum machine and synth sounds together with a positive
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Minimalism is a word that is accompanied by certain expectations. In the wrong hands the music can be stripped of meaning whittled down to a bland, tireless repetition that has little to do with expression. In the hands of vaghy however it is a heart-warming experience. The notes roll full of intention while conjuring up
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I wondered if someone else might describe this album as quiet contemplation. Of course all music of note should be contemplative no matter what emotion employed, though it should never be simply quiet. Underneath all the reflective melancholy occasioned within a lot of the tracks lies an uneasy turmoil seeking to heighten an excess of
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Alan. Black Vinyl Records began around 1996/97 in London. What can you remember about how easy/ difficult it was to set up a label back then, releasing on vinyl and how music was distributed pre-digital and with Social media? Hi Greg, thanks for inviting me. Well, Black Vinyl was actually the
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A remarkable piece of music that starts innocently enough via a simple set of drums but soon evolves into something altogether spellbinding. I don’t know who the vocalist is which is a shame as the delivery of such inescapably passionate words are quite something to behold soaring to the heights of release. Musically its combination
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Luminous contains an airy, uplifting quality that is all at once completely engaging. Driven by shuffling drums amid the sparkle of heavenly keys and voice-like motifs this packs a melodic punch that is both joyous and future-facing towards the inevitable summer sun. Remixes come from Henrik Villard who takes it deeper though contrasted by a