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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Greg Fenton reviews Cher – C1M3R4_Analog cut_v3 – Arthouse Traian Chereches aka Cher tackles future scenarios amid the prospect of ecological disaster via the first release of his new imprint across six bold pieces of significant music. As much experimental as it is charged with the radical influence of jazz and the heavy use of…
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Greg Fenton reviews Dennis Bovell & Friends: Different – The Singles Collection 1977 -1981 – Doctor Bird Engaging with the music of Dennis Bovell is like breathing in the sound of romance. To extend the metaphor further into the embrace of music translated as ripples of deep emotion. There’s something unique about the tone and…
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Greg Fenton reviews Music Review with Middle Earth The Soundtrack of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969 – Cherry Red Records Opening in Covent Garden in August 1967 seems like aeons ago but the brilliant palette splashed across the feast of music played there still reverberates in the here and now. If it doesn’t this compilation…
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Greg Fenton reviews Fluxion – Haze – Vibrant Music Fluxion’s musical passages wander through a landscape filled with wide open spaces touching depth at the point of relief. Influences are important to inform your interpretation of what you seek to capture. So the touches of wavy jazz, cool ambience and Detroit’s classic techno all breathe…
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Episode two of the MagazineSixty Radio podcast is now live on Mixcloud. Enjoy an insightful conversation with former Radio DJ and Editor and current owner of DSPPR (disappear) Records, Chris Coco. Find Chris Coco’s label athttps://dsppr.bandcamp.com/
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Greg Fenton reviews Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II – Ghostly International Listening to the second album from Whatever The Weather is like reading a book where words are translated as sounds and electronic discourse plugs directly into your soul. Soul, meaning the human experience with all that entails from low to high…
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Pete Lazonby’s ‘Sacred Cycles’ was the underground anthem released on Braniak Records back in ’94, making Pete Lazonby a (techno) household name. Alongside his March release on Hooj Choons – a rework of the go-to trance weapon by Fort Romeau – and under his Padre moniker, Lazonby drops ‘Alterity’ on Spanish label Aterral. Ellis May…
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Greg Fenton reviews Grand River – Tuning The Wind – Umor Rex Complex yet bold beauty in simplicity is the key here as accumulating samples of the wind blow hot and cold across an expansive 36-plus minutes and have been accompanying a series of live installations that are now released as music in its own…
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Greg Fenton reviews Sulk Rooms – Take A Look At God’s Face – SUBEXOTIC This is the soundtrack to 2022’s Take A Look At God’s Face written and directed by Jack Laurance, featuring a composition of sounds by Thomas Ragsdale aka Sulk Rooms. You could say the music scores a simmering, malcontent etched out by…
