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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Jimmy Hall Shaw Nuff Anima Jimmy Hall’s new release, which acts as the first from this brand new Manchester imprint, is an intriguing one. Boasting two fresh tracks of undeniably compelling yet other-worldly funkiness, which with each consecutive listen these inventive productions reveal themselves to be reaching above something special. Shaw Nuff, spans eight minutes
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Various Artists Action Time Vision: A Story of UK Independent Punk 1976-1979 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red add to their sterling series of comprehension genre selections with this fresh rendering of early Independent UK Punk numbers. I’m confessing to personal involvement with the era playing bass in the initial incarnation of The Defects around the
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Melé Scouse Afrika / Sleepless Edible Music Yet more marvellous music from the Edible camp. Hard to neatly categorise as ever – good! – yet so obviously producing dancefloor damage in their wake are these latest from Melé. The geographical giveaway is located via Scouse Afrika which blends fiery percussion together with classically camp vocal
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Stranger Than Horses Horses Do It Better EP Lagoon Recordings Melbourne’s brand new label swims against the tide excitedly teasing out the nuances across two feverish tracks. The sleazy vocal intonations of Walking In Harlem drift over low-slung rhythms while creating a shifting, unsuspecting landscape of music that proves to be effortlessly cool – i.e.
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Last Waltz Tunnel Snakes Me Me Me Man Power’s brilliantly titled Me Me Me imprint gets geared up with release number two and not surprisingly it’s also a killer. The trio that is Last Waltz open with the title tracks simmering, shimmering Acid infused workout that is tastefully funky, yet dark edged and temptingly heavy.
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty and thanks for taking the time to do this. I wanted to start by asking where the name micoCastle came from? And also about the striking Art featured on your releases? Hi Greg, thanks for having me, and thanks for the great things you’ve written about our releases of late, much
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Psychemagik Ritual Chants Eskimo Recordings Enchanting and engaging. Both begin with an E and both suggest what’s in store from this glorious long player created by the mind that is Psychemagik. Crossing a total of three CD’s/ two Vinyl of unescapable delight this compilation spans all and sundry from the watery ambience of Man Parrish’s
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Pezzner Evelyn Subtract Like any music it sometimes seems all the more significant when it exits outside of its given location. In this case Pezzner’s exquisitely crafted Evelyn sounds just as informed and just as impactful on or off the dancefloor. The gentle yet brilliant rush of melancholy is deftly underpinned by nervous percussion and
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Customer Poot Mobilee Since when did everything have to make sense? Reset Robot and Alan Fitzpatrick join forces to deliver this deceptively uncomplicated yet thoroughly engrossing succession of brutal beats and dark chanting voices, and yet a sense of relief is to be found in the emotive strands of synthesiser notes that enter the equation.
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