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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Thank god for Phantasy Sound. They release revolutionary records like this one. Always sounding like they’ve taken the ideas of the past, cut them up them into pieces, then creatively fitted them back together in more exciting ways. Perhaps that sentiment is a bit overloaded but then again listen to this first. The Phone Call
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I arrived at the music of Nebel lang quite by chance. Not so much via a roll of the dice, although I guess wondering around the internet could be justifiably called that, but simply by happy accident. On the odd occasion that circumstance happens, seemingly by chance, can be the most rewarding ones. Maybe it
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For the final review of the year it is good to end on something special. The musical architecture supporting Mushroom Pie feeds into a mind-set blinded by science confirming the emotional intelligence of musical excellence. Driven by a slinky rhythm set the moods created are both warmly melodic, playfully inquisitive as Hush Forever’s whispered intentions
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The reflective beauty inherent in this music reaches a climax of highs just as it plunges into the further reaches of the essence lost to time like glaciers themselves. Self-defining, the search continues in earnest across four waves of sound forming initially around the rousing vocals on No Trees For Miles then explores the power
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Located somewhere in-between the whirring flirtations of voice and accompanying keys are a set of beautifully tuned, exceptional drums. Hey Look I Know could be said to be trance like in so far as its series of repetitions draw you close into heightened states of awareness with the sudden exception of piano shaking appearances. I
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Where to begin. Cracks Are Showing is a slowing breath-taking piece of music delivering on its promise of dark, poetic beauty in amongst a buried landslide of blazing synthesizers. Longing then provokes a slip and slide of loss and memory over a caustic rub of keys, lonely and yet super exhilarating. The mood then steps
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Serving an invigorating intensity that exits outside of nowhere Debashis Sinha’s delicious retelling of electronic trepidation fuses imminent danger together with a forward thinking urgency. Often sounding like machines in freefall improvising a way forwards this release combines two albums in one of which I am reviewing Adeva_v000_04 here first. Experimental I guess is the
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I love the temptation joining the dots between that unwritten, other story outside of American disco as it flows seamlessly from Hi-Nrg into Acid House hotwired to the celebratory European craziness marrying the two. Mark Moore’s latest escapade alongside Daddy Squad into that familiar territory sees twisted arpeggios assert the primacy of beautiful syncopation over
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Who said music was easy. Or it was about the industry of feeling good. Or wiping your mind clean of distraction. Or being childish to subvert being adult. Inspired by “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot art should precisely never be about any of those things. The act of listening to music can a reflective/