Tag: Magazine Sixty

  • DJ Hell I Want U Gigolo Music Ltd DJ Hell rarely refuses to tempt and tease you and this taster from his forthcoming fifth studio album ZUKUNFTSMUSIK is certainly not shy in coming forward. Collaborating with Tom Of Finland Foundation on the sleeve plus video the music cruises through a sleazy late-night monologue that touches…

  • Various Artists Action Time Vision: A Story of UK Independent Punk 1976-1979 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red add to their sterling series of comprehension genre selections with this fresh rendering of early Independent UK Punk numbers. I’m confessing to personal involvement with the era playing bass in the initial incarnation of The Defects around the…

  • Melé Scouse Afrika / Sleepless Edible Music Yet more marvellous music from the Edible camp. Hard to neatly categorise as ever – good! – yet so obviously producing dancefloor damage in their wake are these latest from Melé. The geographical giveaway is located via Scouse Afrika which blends fiery percussion together with classically camp vocal…

  • Stranger Than Horses Horses Do It Better EP Lagoon Recordings Melbourne’s brand new label swims against the tide excitedly teasing out the nuances across two feverish tracks. The sleazy vocal intonations of Walking In Harlem drift over low-slung rhythms while creating a shifting, unsuspecting landscape of music that proves to be effortlessly cool – i.e.…

  • Last Waltz Tunnel Snakes Me Me Me Man Power’s brilliantly titled Me Me Me imprint gets geared up with release number two and not surprisingly it’s also a killer. The trio that is Last Waltz open with the title tracks simmering, shimmering Acid infused workout that is tastefully funky, yet dark edged and temptingly heavy.…

  • Mitch Alexander: microCastle Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty and thanks for taking the time to do this. I wanted to start by asking where the name micoCastle came from? And also about the striking Art featured on your releases? Hi Greg, thanks for having me, and thanks for the great things you’ve written about our releases of late, much…

  • Pezzner Evelyn Subtract Like any music it sometimes seems all the more significant when it exits outside of its given location. In this case Pezzner’s exquisitely crafted Evelyn sounds just as informed and just as impactful on or off the dancefloor. The gentle yet brilliant rush of melancholy is deftly underpinned by nervous percussion and…

  • Customer Poot Mobilee Since when did everything have to make sense? Reset Robot and Alan Fitzpatrick join forces to deliver this deceptively uncomplicated yet thoroughly engrossing succession of brutal beats and dark chanting voices, and yet a sense of relief is to be found in the emotive strands of synthesiser notes that enter the equation.…

  • Pauline Henry Q&A

    Hi Pauline, thanks for taking time out to do this for Magazine Sixty. I wanted to begin by asking what do the words ‘Soul Music’ mean for you in 2016. Feeling is the language of the Soul. I love when an Artiste have the ability to convey feelings through music, melody and words. In 2016…