SEX TAGS関連リリースはSOTOFTTとDJ FETT BURGERのそれぞれアートワークが魅力の一ですが、印刷所で働き、ドローイングとアナログな切り貼りをベースに作り上げるFETT BURGERのアートワークをコレクションしたジン。ストックしました。 (サイトウ)

Following the Dance Issue, this edition is once again packed with must-read features: Prince, James Mason, Norman Jay, Patric Adams, Rocket Juice & The Moon, Morris Day, Odd Future, and Questlove's 33 reasons why Prince is hip-hop, and more. Includes a MITSU THE BEATS flexi-disc as a bonus!

好評だったNo.19に続いてDance Issue第2弾！Larry Levan、Francois K、Bohannon、Nicky Siano、Wally Badarou特集！

Derrick May、Theo ParrishのロングインタビューにTom Moulton、Ron Hardy特集なのでストックしました！

現在のL.A.ビート・シーンの立役者的存在のKUTMAH。DJ、ビートメーカーとしても非凡な才能を見せつける彼はLOW END THEORY以前のパーティー「Sketchbook」を開催する等、アート面でも知られる存在。本作はそんな彼が満を持してリリースした初のアート・ブック。不法滞在で拘束されていた期間に書き上げた作品32作を含む全92ページ。初回入荷分限定MIX CD付き。※試聴音源はボーナスMIX CDの前半部分を抜粋してます。 (土橋)

A magazine that could only come from Mograg garage, spotlighting artists you'd never see introduced at an ordinary gallery — yet who are sure to register on the radar of underground music fans! "This issue's theme is 'TREAT.' The word 'TREAT' carries meanings like a feast or a banquet. The TREAT we're serving up this time isn't told through difficu ...Read morelt words; instead we've packed it full of images and visuals you won't want to miss, along with words and fragments of memory you won't want to let slip by — a TREAT that goes by the name of art! Your brain will flip over and your eyes will pop out. Real and fantasy as they exist within us, all kinds of expression shuffled together into a single magazine!"
[Participating artists]
Oki Oki., Yuko Oba, Emi Kaneko, Yosuke Gouda, Doramu no Hito, Natsuko Magara, Chika Yaoita, CDR
[Column contributors]
Ichiro Endo (future artist), Zenji Mikami (ZENSHI representative), Hiromoto Mihara (Billiken gallery representative), Smelly (dancer, performer), Oki Oki., Doramu no Hito

A magazine that only Mograg garage could make, introducing artists who would never be shown in an ordinary gallery, yet who register on the antennae of underground music lovers! "This issue's theme is 'Horror.' ""Terrified of something lurking in the shadows — it's scary! But I want to see what it is, I don't want to see it! But I want to! I don't! ...Read more ...maybe that's the real thrill of horror. Entertainment built on the theme of ""fear"" — horror manga, horror movies, horror novels — is frightening beyond endurance, yet it breeds the utterly contradictory feeling that you can't move forward without knowing what comes next. The more strongly you think, I don't want to look!, the more the rebound of curiosity makes you want to look after all. It would be a waste to brush that curiosity aside! The ""fear"" painted in your mind's eye when you close your eyes holds a power greater than the word itself, transforming into anger, into tears, and at times even into laughter. Picturing in your head things that don't exist in reality as if they did is the finest amusement there is. That imagination might just let you envision a spectacular ""leap"" beyond your own ideas."

東京発のインディペンデントアートブックの約２年ぶりの新作。
今作は、コンテンポラリーアートを中心に、デザインやファッションの分野でも活躍する、才能豊かな素晴らしいアーティスト達が参加。前作同様、文章による記述はなく作品のみで構成されています。
オールカラー、限定1000部

Issue 12 of WAXPOETICS JAPAN leans toward soul and R&B. Alongside features on the two cover artists (ERYKAH BADU and GIL SCOTT-HERON), there's the walrus of love BARRY WHITE and the ISLEY BROTHERS! Plus D'ANGELO, whose new album is eagerly awaited, and JOHN LEGEND & THE ROOTS, whose album was superb. For jazz fans there's a CTI feature and more — n ...Read moreothing but the dense, deep, niche interviews only this magazine delivers.

■Feature Content■

★Fela Kuti
"Fela Kuti, the founder of Afrobeat and a Nigerian hero. A detailed, story-like account of the shock and inner conflict Fela Kuti himself experienced after traveling to the United States. Read this article to understand the influence of Malcolm X and how he came to return to his African roots. Excerpted from t ...Read morehe famous 1985 book on Fela Kuti, 'This Bitch of a Life.'"

★Style Wars
"Style Wars reigns at the very top of hip-hop movies. Filmmakers Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver, along with graffiti legends Rammellzee, Frosty Freeze, Lady Pink, and DEZ, came together for this interview."


・Tony Allen
・Rich Medina
・MUTE BEAT
・Don Letts
・Guru
・Teddy Pendergrass
・Saravah Soul
・Marcos Valle
・Flowering Inferno
・12×12: The Breaks
・The Five Corners Quintet
・The 45 Adapters
・12inch Laboratory
・Vinyl Ekiden
・Funk Archaeology

■Feature Contents■

KRS-One
Ice Cube
EPMD
Ice-T
Grandmixer DXT
Supreme
DJ JIN
Aloe Blacc
Turn On The Sunlight
Tommy Guerrero
Lee Perry
Gladstone Anderson
Cheryl Lynn
DJ SARASA
12inch Laboratory
Vinyl Ekiden
Funk Archaeology

A special feature on Portland/Oregon, a place we've been curious about for its music, art, and record shop scene! Packed to the brim with the fascinating finds and dedication they discovered by going there themselves. Truly inspiring. Congratulations on your 10th anniversary. (Original Japanese text by Saito)