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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Greg Fenton reviews Dave Clarkson – Dreamadelica (Music for Dreamachine) – Waxing Crescent Records A story waiting to be told turns the page between celestial choral harmonies, guitar, and synthesized strings as Prelude to The Subconscious introduces the thought process into your consciousness. Given the album title, it’s perhaps not too surprising that this collection
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Greg Fenton reviews Hot Sync – Whego Flow EP – Witty Tunes Whego Flow is an irresistible production. Full of the stimulating, funky spark igniting life and the seasoned excitement of seeking night-time highs. It’s also all about the fizzy energy of hot rhythm plugged into driving bass and a chorus of voices twisting into
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Greg Fenton reviews Sio – Twilight – STY TRU BTS It’s hard not to be in love with this song. While it’s likewise easy to celebrate Sio’s honeyed vocals as they drift seamlessly across the smouldering, jazzy flavours of the music as chords blend tastefully together with perfect percussion set to a low-slung tempo that
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Greg Fenton reviews Yard One – One Day – Tact Recordings What is it about One Day that makes me feel about modes of transportation? Maybe it’s the purposeful movement as grooves and rhythms feed into each other promising an end in sight. Or it’s the chiming melodic cascades of keys casting colour across it
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Greg Fenton reviews NiCKY – by – PRAH Recordings When the piano is played so eloquently such as it is here then there is nothing better. Add to that NiCKY’s resonating voice and something rather wonderful is created. I like the way the melodies are stretched, dipping into harmonious well-being while at others feeling more
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Greg Fenton reviews Jay Tripwire – Gone Insane – Either Recordings Reaching out to somewhere in between the fizzy cosmos of futuristic space and the lowdown, hard-hitting fierceness of House and brutal basslines is Gone Insane. I want to use the word Awesome here. As always the artist takes the mood and works it into
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Greg Fenton Reviews Letters From Mouse – Clota – Subexotic Records The notes gathering across Clota are reminiscent of past times although they are connected to a brooding storm of current electrical conveyance. By referencing Scottish myth and legend firmly roots the album’s original concept in the past however as the sounds roundly testify the
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Magazine Sixty Interviews James ‘Harri’ Harrigan (AKA Manakinz) James ‘Harri’ Harrigan is no stranger to the ones and twos. Widely respected for his long-held residency at Glasgow’s Sub Club with his Saturday night ‘Subculture’ party alongside Domenic Cappello. On his Manakinz production project, Harrigan joins forces with fellow Glaswegian underground DJ Max Raskin, and they
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Greg Fenton reviews Millsart – X-Ray Zulu – Axis Records It’s like you’re reading a novel lost in the intensity of the plot, something to do with a detective discovering something mysterious and strange. The further you detail the revelations the more enthralled you become. The music created by Millsart doesn’t conform to any particular
