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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Sometimes records remind me of the 1990’s in good ways that illicit scores of hot, tribal rhythms and thoughts of wide-eyed revolution. Love Triangle does that plus a little bit more with its creative use of contrasts setting blazing drums against deeper, evocative voices alongside curious musical tones that breath in enticing, haunting ways. Yet
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Three sizzling tracks from this relatively new artist ignites the airwaves with a combination of hot-wired cool and emotional soulfulness. Bayethe, teases you with staccato synth lines that soon evolve into something altogether more musical as atmospheric piano chords alongside mournful strings are heightened by the addition of cool percussion, plus a biting kick drum,
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Where will it all end. This journey into the deep recess of atmospheric beauty is both a radical and exciting one leaving you with the celluloid impression that you’ll never know quite what lies around the bend. Travelling in excess, hot-wired into a future of the possible is after all much more tempting than regurgitating
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Three is difficult. Not because it’s unduly awkward, or even too easy, but because it messes around with safe notions of genre to illicit music that feels tactile and occasionally dangerous to the touch. I don’t like every track on here but the vast majority pull on strings that ignite a flush of emotions, especially
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Finding spaces to open up new directions is for me what these pieces are all about. They are not cosy consequences but heartfelt deliberations on the nature of being. As piano’s roll, treatments are added to effect an ever changing eloquence, touching upon a beautiful repose reaching out to quiet yet loud intensity throughout this
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Sounding very much like the heat of the summer sun on your face, I Knew It feels every part like happy days ahead. It’s in the rousing piano, just like it lies within Kate NV’s breezy vocal lines. Referencing the feel-good factors of celluloid and soundtracks this piece of music easily wins mind and soul.
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Attention to detail. Attention to life. Afterlife continue a ceaseless soundtracking of the seasons with this latest collection which as the title states is a timely reminder of the importance of the source. Mother Nature Land pulses with strident drums and an almighty blast of heavenly persuasion in the form of cool chords, sweet strings
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Diving into the ocean of Erik Satie’s musical world is like diving for pearls. A rapturous, immersive experience capturing the essence of the senses as they rush by. His music was always remarkable and remains so. Explosively quiet as much as it is exhilarating this incredible collection works spans decades. At times reflective, at others
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You can hear the sound of history being rewired throughout Reggie Dokes outstanding Dance Your life Away as if it depended on it. This is about the resolute power generated by electricity as sizzling notes get intertwined, reimagined and then retold. The word future springs readily to mind. Then, Mind follows exploring the spaces in-between