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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We know how Marvin Gaye ended up, how his life was cut short after decades of difficulty. We also know he created some of the most cherished moments of the last century, and I’m not talking about the cringe worthy Sexual Healing. Perhaps it’s a more fitting epitaph that two of his more vulnerable songs
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Heartstrings are there to be played, otherwise what’s the point of our lifetime’s succession of heartache and yearning. Beginning this series of collaborative releases is this rather wonderful song capturing emotion and sentiment to a T. Rebekah K’s delicate vocal weaves around the contrasting smouldering low-end theory like a dream, or a self-defining explanation of
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I love the thought-provoking, memory kindling, maybe positive futures essence contained within Meet Her At The Jazzkantine like you’re hearing something sublime for the first time. While it doesn’t follow the rules of clique it does engage the soul in more profound ways than that formula, at a guess it’s more about art as music
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James Ellis Ford has crafted together disparate elements fusing them in such a way that a sense of wonder (and curiosity) ensues. Not so much a homage to the mind-bending world of Fripp, Eno and perhaps Soft Machine and King Crimson, let’s say more like a reworking of those frequencies channelled through the artists own
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The keys remind me of The Doors which in May in a wonderful thing, while the vibes are pure sixties plus seventies West Coast rolling with the good times, free and easy. Aaron Fletcher & Tim Parkin aka 77:78 from The Bees originally delivered the sounds back in 2018 on their Jellies album like they
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Effortless cool streams throughout NAIL’s often celebratory escapades into the rhythm of soulful movement. Seamlessly funky without regurgitating disco (yet again) the release opens with the optimistic grooves of the surprisingly named Stressed, followed by the shimmering melodic encounters of Tuesday presenting cosmically enhancement via guitars and beautiful string rushes. Warm combinations of drum machine
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Jean-Patrice. Your music on Fleksebleco combines elements of precision alongside an improvised free flow of electrical impulse. Who (or which records) inspired you to take this direction outside of more conventional mainstream styles? I’m not sure where I read that quote, but it said something like, you are who you surround
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I nearly missed this thing of beautiful resonance by DJ Counselling. Sculpted, precise, freeform explosions of thoughtful brilliance. Feather feels richly emotional, organic, not in that overused sense but as real, living and breathing sonic communications to the depths of your soul. It’s also the Art work. Buy it https://fanlink.to/TENFL016 Feather by DJ Counselling