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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If you like the sound of music playing outside of itself, moving forwards, then this will excite your thought processes. Despite the somewhat contradictory title this effervescent production positively brims with a definitive array of ideas combing unearthly effects together with a tough heavenly pulse of drums and bass. Existing to be played at any
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Apart from love and hate what else is permanent in our throwaway culture. If you were to ask me I would have to say music, but then I am biased in that direction. It will also come as no surprise that I’m reviewing this latest work from Steve Hadfield who I have an ever increasing
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Etching out a sense of joy within its grooves is this latest of two prime productions from the gifted Noha. At least that’s what I think when encountering Tsukuba and its eastern melodies as they weave in and out of the tastefully arranged sequence of events that temptingly feel in-between robustly pounding and musically literate.
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The clue really isn’t within the title Ambient Jazz Ensemble that would be a much too simple way to describe the sounds they make. Based around the creative flair inspiring Colin Baldry there is an intensely easy rhythm to their music which is actually packed full of notes and emotions. You can also hear the
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In ways this reminds of one of Double Dee & Steinski’s cut-up’s from the mid-eighties as different elements cut in and out of view while leaving the echo of their own indelible stamp. Which in this case ranges from warped piano to jazzy interludes colliding with smouldering bass and pumping drums. Put it this way
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Listening to Yard One capture the sounds surrounding their existence flies in the face of being typecast and that is the thing I like most about their creative work. It feels like musicians at play with a serious, inquiring intention dancing between various reference points while defining their own. I was never huge on labels
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These days disco samples tend to leave me cold. I’ve just heard it repeated once too often, especially when there are so many new sounds to be experienced, but as is always the case the beauty of music is its ability to surprise you. Things You Say loops a slice of history into an inescapably
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Please god don’t let anyone begin their review with a reference to music for sleep. This isn’t. It is, if you care to listen and I hope you do, Andrea Porcu‘s mid-expanding trip into the subconscious unfolding across some forty two minutes of rather gorgeous stimulating pleasure, created with the aim of seeking to relieve