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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If life isn’t about stepping sideways into the vast unknown then it can be about boredom and conformity. This beautifully executed album composed by a creative amalgamation of Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Nik Colk Void (Factory Floor / Carter Tutti Void), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Arone Dyer (Buke+Gase) and Aart Strootman sounds quietly reassured and robustly enjoyable.
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I learnt more about the spirit of The Blitz and the people who inhibited that world from Kevin Hegge’s brilliant film, Tramps: The Death Of Punk, New Romantics, The Art Of Survival than I did from almost any other source. Tracing the lineage between early 1970’s Glam and its disparate offshoots, charting a course through
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Never quite reaching the point of no return music that questions the nature of the human condition beyond bland pronouncements of I Love You is to be cherished. Operating under their given names Sebastian Selke and Daniel Selke rather than the previous guise of CEEYS the music produced is captivating and in ways trance-like, it
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Originally released way back in 2010 – feels almost like a lifetime ago now – this revitalised reworking strips it all down revealing the bare essentials. Working the drums, bass and vocal snippets into a an almost restrained fever pitch this production is more or less all about rhythm and movement in ways that are
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I was telling somebody about the liberating experience of listening to all types of music, not just within a narrow singular bandwidth, how exciting and freeing it is was. Perhaps the question here might be, why you wouldn’t want to listen to such carefully crafted, emotionally informed music such as this. In a way Jackson
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Channelling her fifth album through a prism of exploratory questions Christina Vantzou’s wonderful set of new music is all at once thrilling to the touch, exhilarating to the ears. It feels like pieces gathered together with the instruction of play, celebrate and to thrill expectations. Moments vary between speed and slowness pondering the emotion of
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This is strange. As in curious. As in someone throw a clutch of disparate elements against a sonic canvas then left them to see what stuck. The result is quite outstanding. Like an assault on the senses you don’t quite know which way to turn as layers of sound build into an ingenious conclusion on
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Imada’s Bosendorfer piano talks to you. Fluid and flowing, eloquent like a high-class orator. This reissue from 1977 feels as if yesterday has been reborn into tomorrow. Contemporary always. Try, Planets at the beginning. Moods along with tempos lift and fall as the album then progresses packed full of life enhancing sequences, exploring texture and
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The rush of urgency that greets you on Holding On To Memory Devices is almost too much to bear. Like its energy is too fast, too soon. Listen a little closer as it unfolds with warmer notes buried within and it seems almost reassuring. The clash of meaning permeating this album is thrilling and compelling