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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The inescapable difference between the music produced by Afterlife and that of so many others in this field is simply depth of musical vision. Found in places and locations where you can truly lose yourself in. Plus enquiry, such is the obvious thirst for knowledge. You can feel it as each layer unfolds, each weaving
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A world of words to get lost in. Dummn is hard to describe simply because its unique nature of sounds connect more directly with your subconscious, diving into the surreal, rather that the obvious world right before your eyes. Like a private conversation, albeit one in a profoundly unsettling, shaking your foundations, kind of way.
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Loraine James translates life into five broken pieces, reconfigures the blame, then reassembles fragments of hope and despair in an equal, yet uneven order. If I was a typical music journalist it might well say that Gentle Confrontation is an album of significant importance, both as part of being human and that of living somewhere
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Joāo Paulo Esteves da Silva’s sublime sprinkle of piano keys sing out like an enchanting evenings chorus on the album’s beginning The House Behind, sounding all at once inspired, eloquent and most gently persuasive. Accompanied notably by both the cool twang of Mário Franco’s hot, double-bass alongside the punctuating language of Samuel Rohrer’s free flowing
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Entering Simon McCorry’s world of sound is much like entering a series of different rooms where each contains its own suggestion. This latest collection of works for the esteemed See Blue Audio has the artist explore the aftereffects of serious challenges which life can so easily throw in your direction, knocking you off-center, lending each
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joe. Celebrating the release of your debut album – Solitude, I was about the meaning behind its title? Yeah so I picked up a new MPC (One) during the pandemic since we were cooped up at home and dove into it a bit, so I figured it was a fitting title
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Like reconnecting with an old friend Another Moment In Time follows up on the promise given by Moments In Time some twenty years previous to this latest continuation of the concept. I guess what immediately strikes you here is the sheer depth of emotion the music touches upon throughout each consecutive number, so much so
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Whispered by the sagely ghost of a poetic past both of these soulful new productions from Melchior aim high while digging deep into the process of being. The Feeling version serves effortlessly cool beats, bass and generosity of spirit that quenches the quest for knowledge as it drives forward into blissful refrains. Having said that,
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One, begins this long player by Minor Green fizzing via a series of gentle shocks softening the blows of turbulent lifetimes in its wake. Serene yet driven by an unquiet, uneasy underbelly the music continues probing within, while suggesting a lively escape into an unknown pleasure, always charged by the passion for what could be
