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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Planetar miraculously stimulates the sensation that you are drifting around the expanse of space gazing wide-eyed at the surrounding wonder of it all. Or possibly being horizontal at an observatory lost in sound amid the unfolding, lonely yet cosmic beauty. The synthesizers employed mould a kind of lost in time feeling which may echo television
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Sasha. Your work encompasses an impressive array of contemporary and classical sounds. Who inspired you to fuse the world of electronic sound together with more traditional instrumentation? And can you describe what you have learnt about how the two styles interact and feed off each other? Hello Magazine Sixty, thank you
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Occasionally music truly excels. Exit boasts that stamp of excellence throughout as its life-affirming warmth cruises across lilting melodies, drifting over a simple shuffle of drum infused machines and sunshine guitar. Endless, contrasts next via darker brushes of synthesizer creating a more introspective story completed with an array of harmonised voices touching the soul that
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Travelling through the expressway of electronic motion a question might spring to mind. Centred around songs verses sounds, which are the most significant here? It’s maybe that the uniquely 1980’s song structures hanging lose over the fast propulsion of drum machines, desperate to cling to a tradition of accessible, tuneful melody like rock n roll
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joseph. You have been performing and producing music for a considerable amount of time now. I wanted to ask, given the sometimes fickle nature of dance music, what you feel has enabled that longevity as you have remained integral to dancefloors? Luck, hard work, being in the right place at the
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Jon Hassell is a remarkable artist evidenced through the intersections of his life and the music he has created over decades. Access to everything is so much more readily available to all now consequently there is a never ending stream of music to be discovered, remembered, or simply experienced for all its inherent worth. Jon
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Listening to Dizzy Gillespie’s music feels like a privilege granted by history. Released back in 1970 by Perception Records it was the artist’s second album that year and for me the better of the two more attuned to fusions of classic Jazz and Latin, than its funkier counterpart. If the opening, Olinga was the albums
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Samuel Rohrer’s continuing journey to the occupying spaces in-between fractures and unspoken corners gathers fresh impetus with this latest collection of works. The drums continue to ignite time signatures, punctuating rhythm, while a connecting impulse of electrical emotion fizzes briskly throughout the narrative of these seemingly surreal landscapes. Again the music fully encompasses a world