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 f5point6 – In Retrospect – See Blue Audio Listening without thinking, feeling, or engaging your imagination is unthinkable when traversing the landscapes of sound created by f5point6. This compilation collates and celebrates a selection of the artist’s finest work for See Blue Audio, which incidentally spans the last six years. Time frames
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Greg Fenton reviews JL Segel – Fog – Self Release Mentioning the word ambient or music closely associated with the genre may feel like we’ve all been here before, conjuring soft, rolling landscapes unfolding across the space between the speakers and summoning a quiet intensity stirring emotions from deep within. Or something resembling that experience.
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Greg Fenton reviews Truus de Groot presents Plus Instruments – Unnoticed – Ransom Note Unnoticed is the sound of history filtered through a contemporary lens. The audio feels like a classic collection of electronic machines plugged into a bright future of storytelling that never fails to excite expectations. In so many ways, the album feels
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Greg Fenton reviews David Moore – Graze the Bell – RVNG Intl. Listening to David Moore play the piano is like a warm embrace gathering pace. Filtered through the lens of moments flickering across a past screening of events, while seeds are planted firmly in the here and now. Not living life in the moment,
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Khadija is a Berlin-based music producer and DJ whose deep, soulful House sounds can be heard on the excellent Dunya I via REK’D. The artist discusses her diverse influences, thoughts on club culture and deeper, heartfelt reflections here at Magazine Sixty. Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Khadija. I think the Dunya I EP for REK’D is
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Greg Fenton reviews Various Artists – Musik Music Musique: The Rise Of Synth Pop 1979 – Cherry Red Records The question is: why wouldn’t you love this collection of The Rise Of Synth Pop 1979? Such a brilliant year in music from all corners, including the bit after Punk’s initial, exciting flair, to Two Tone
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Greg Fenton reviews Viclan – Checking In – R&S Records Calvin Whittaker’s deeply informed, deceptively intricate Checking In repeatedly slices speech, looping it into a frenzy of delicious/delirious possibility. Reminiscent of Steve Reich’s It’s Gonna Rain from 1965 in the way music evolves and reinvents itself over time, it likewise begins at one point and
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Greg fenton reviews Khadija – Dunya I’ EP – REK’D Dreaming IS EVERYTHING AND MORE. Formed around a blissful execution of modular, electronically charged tones, the pulse of rhythmic arrival soon evolves with the addition of a chorus of heavenly voices, a timely elevation provided by strings, and the voiced question inherent in the title:
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Greg Fenton reviews Strangebird~Sounds – Minerals From the Crust – Audiobulb Records Sometimes music doesn’t always suggest a direct answer to the question being posed. Minerals From the Crust is as much about tuning in as it is about letting go. It remains, however, an involving, welcoming listen, as if the keys were being played
