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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Its telling the power revealed in the succession of notes that drift endlessly across the spaces in-between woofers and tweeters like a magical force employed by the artists suggesting a hidden knowledge of experience. The piano has always held those qualities dear escaping the clutches of time and clique as is so eloquently demonstrated here.
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Where to begin. Like forever calling this collection of exemplarily works celebrates all that was worthwhile of the twentieth century, denoting times, evoking memory, lives lived and lost. Spanning four discs of undeniable pleasure living in the moment is cast aside as history is rewound spelling out the story of humanities rites of passage tuning
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Words don’t really serve this experience well. It’s like letters hitting a wall and failing in disarray as the music is so all encompassing, to an almost frightening degree, that it almost proves difficult to formulate the meaning contained within the airwaves. Captured from a live performance at Ground Works last year these five tracks
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Three things about this new collection of music from Columbo are short and sweet. It Just Happened which provides the title track captures a timely, atmospheric series of moments as beats break and throb across an introspective set of keys and undulating pads. Uncomplicated yet beautifully to the point at almost three and a half
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Beginning the happier New Year by revisiting a record released almost a decade ago (now available digitally) doesn’t necessarily make sense as Magazine Sixty strives to highlight what is new within particular fields of music and their emotional consequence. But then again we are talking about the production ethics that fuel, Thomas Melchior’s label which
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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.