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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How can I put this? Take 2 Go is funky to the point of being almost beyond belief. If the sole function of dance music is to make you dance, then here it is. I want to use the word liquid to describe the rapid and divergent undulations feeling like a riot going on here,
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Another great release from TENAMPA with Gåddisøn combining hot waves of smouldering bass together with swathes of sassy percussion to celebrate the will to live. It’s all about a building, simmering intensity that draws you into its own self-defining world of rhythm on Turbulence. That plus the exciting tease of superlative production skills. While the
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Diving into depths can’t always be an easy option to take, especially given some of the unknown quantities searched for here, located who knows where. Consequently Bastien Keb’s fifth album seeks answers in spiritual places, albeit sometimes hidden in darker corners. And while it’s easy to comment on the cinematic nature flowing throughout this collection
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Achieving the nearly impossible these days, Downstream combines not only ultra-cool grooves but the spark of irrefutable melody together with hot, thunderous drums and bass causing the earth to quake. In a sense the question should really be, what’s not love? After all tracks like this seem increasingly few and far between, feeling tastefully contemporary,
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Are we almost in September already? The seasons pass so quickly you barely have time to catch your breath. Talking of which Evolution is one of those rare things in these days of the modern language of pre-programmed (un)certainties, for it lives and breathes and evolves in its own, unlimited, open spaces. This live performance
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Sometimes the best things arrive in small, unexpected packages. Such as this album appearing by morning on my radar. Although, it seemed much more appropriate to put words to paper approaching nightfall than the cold light of day. Centring on the breath may not always be in search of relaxing process. In this case the
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Tuned into primetime New York sometime in the downtown heat of 1990’s hedonism this tribal infused bomb fuses life alongside the energy of excitement like they were born to be together. Its direct, no holds barred thrill is all part of the charm as percussion, heady voices and chugging intention all subsume the senses into
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By transcending the will to connect universally this invaluable series of music from Afterlife seeks out new sonic pastures with each consequent release. However, at this point given the enormity of bland ideas masquerading under the guise of electronic dance music where arrangements, impersonated sounds and cliqued provocations (not to mention the notion that you
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Usually I begin at the point of describing how music feels, or at least makes you feel in response, whereas the thing that struck instantaneously with Joe Babylon’s productions are rather how they sound. Because it is the sonic breath of analogue in all its distinctive, organic, you could certainly say state of natural bliss,
