Tag: Crosstown Rebels
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Made By Pete
Greg Fenton reviews Made By Pete – Fires – Crosstown Rebels Fires is an incredibly stunning creation combining the dark heart of soul with grainy electronic, incendiary thinking. At various points, it feels like each note has been carefully crafted for maximum effect teasing out every drop of possibility. You can hear it as the…
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Tibi Dabo – Vista – Crosstown Rebels
The playful sense of being rebellious neatly criss-crosses this album from Tibi Dabo adding sounds where you wouldn’t always expect them, while combining an exciting array of influences, then transforming them all into his own unique way of thinking. So much so that every track may, or may not, suit your taste. If little else…
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Lunar Disco – Devil’s Hands – Crosstown Rebels
We need more. Not Less. Music like this fires up the heart with the idea that sounds can be both thrilling, intoxicating, fizzing with intent.
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Dino Lenny – I’ve Learned That – Crosstown Rebels
Dino Lenny’s most recent releases have been statements of intent. I’ve Learned That, talks that same language with a refreshingly, direct breath. On this occasion fuelling the words are rugged bass and resilient, jazzy reflections landing in the shape of emotive piano chords. Soulfully loaded, filled with timely lessons for life enhanced by the innate…
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Parallells – Ashes of Snow (The Rebirth Of The Phoenix) – Crosstown Rebels
The message is in the music. Music being the key word here. Playful, jazzy, certainly sassy this hot combination of rhythm and words does so divinely as they celebrate their favourite Portuguese beach club, Yamba. Next is the remix of Ashes of Snow from Clive Henry who explodes the tempo while lending the production a…
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Satori ft. Laska – Yellow Blue Bus – Crosstown Rebels
A great piece of music that sparkles with not only a resolutely powerful sense of instrumentation but shines equally via its collaboration of voices from both parties eliciting a yearning, full of possibility moment. The desired effect is heightened further with the image of stadium filled unity capturing that sense of uplifting melancholy which chimes…
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Siopis – Unconditional – Rebellion
There’s little doubt as to the strength of this production as heartfelt, soulful emotions resonate from every pour, and in days like these that’s precisely what we need. Inspired by a speech given by Lauryn Hill the touch paper is ignited via rolling currents of electrical impulses gently yet intently gathering pace. You kind of…
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Ae:ther (Q&A)
Welcome to Sixty Magazine, Ae: ther. Where in the world are you right now and can you tell us what is happening in that part of the world regarding Covid-19? Thanks for having me here. At the moment I am in Berlin and the situation after a bit of initial panic I must say that…
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Dubfire feat. Carl Craig and Kate Elsworth – Lotus – Crosstown Rebels
Crosstown Rebels has remained a potent source of inspiration for many years now and this latest release from respected artists Dubfire feat. Carl Craig fits the bill nicely. Lotus, also has the pleasure of Kate Elsworth’s breathy vocal delivery which adds fire to the production that is in itself already smouldering, tempting you into an…