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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I listen to this and I think. Dance or electronic music can so often be time limited, defined by an era, usually accompanied by a hackneyed journalistic term.
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Sometimes you don’t need to think about music you just need to feel it. Falling in line with the soulful tradition this smouldering, emotionally intelligent song occupies the space between craft and care filling the airwaves with life-affirming vibes alongside an evocative, gentle shuffle of rhythm.
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Stating the obvious but Just Move Records release music which acknowledges House Music’s righteous history while not being weighed down by it.
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Weaving its magic like a snake charmer conjures up mystery each of the three pieces of music populating this latest release are radically charged in their own right.
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Piecing together pieces of the puzzle that form The Place We Know expresses the desire of finding yourself land at well intentioned endings. Creating a sense of drifting as layers of sounds manifest themselves in the shape of deeply refreshing sequences. Sitting somewhere in between loud/ quiet this captivating piece of music draws you into
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When music is stripped right back to bare simplicity it speaks to you in forms of language, memory and meaning. Pure and simple. Being devoid of words, relying on atmospheric instrmentation for communication, it does not follow that it automatically becomes a screen ‘soundtrack’ to accompany this or that. It’s just sublime music, or not.
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An excellent, spellbinding release from Russian Lineman, not least of all because of Valeska Rautenberg’s deeply enthralling vocal. Musically this has a funkier sway than expected by the artist, whose trips into mind-expanding sounds have always been fascinating. This time concentrating on darker brushes of bass and pounding, danceable drums as the voices drift around
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I have been listening to Laurie Anderson’s Norton lecture series filled with fascination and meaning, questioning the nature of sound and how it communicates with the everyday experiences of interaction and travel and surroundings. And about the peeling back on musical convention to reveal answers inherent without the use of melody to convey substance. And
