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 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…
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Greg Fenton reviews Adrian Younge – Ainda Preciso do Sol – Linear Labs The complimenting bassline is as crisp as the snare drum pushing through the dew of winter grey while the effortless piano talks up a world of cinema swinging across a series of black and white keys. Then there are the vocals in…
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Greg Fenton reviews Glåsbird – Glacial Drift – Driftworks The numbers tick by, dates fizzle from view like you’re experiencing somebody else’s dream. This a beautifully played album that sidesteps unnecessary frills in exchange for depth and the pure art of meaning. Utilising an array of instruments for the purpose, the cello sounds as elegant…
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Presented by Sean Holland. I am delighted to join Greg Fenton for a monthly podcast, Magazine Sixty Radio. In the spirit of Greg’s much respected online magazine, we will share interviews, insights and guest mixes from a wide range of independent artists. The first show is up with special guest Simon Mills – One Half…
