『ele-king vol.32 Special feature: the end and beginning of the 2010s.』ele-king editorial department (ed.)
Price：1,500yen＋tax
Release：2023/12/15
ISBN:978-4-910511-64-1
The 2010s: what music felt, how it was reborn and how it foresaw the times.
A bird's-eye view of this explosive decade, introducing some of the greatest albums you should be listening to right now.
Table of Contents
One Autolycus Point Never.
Interview again: 'Looking back at the 2010s' (Takune Kobayashi + Tsutomu Noda / Mariko Sakamoto)
Special feature: The end and beginning of the 2010s
Memories of the 2010s: Ghosts and the birth of new things (Tsutomu Noda)
The state of falling asleep and the fetishisation of analogue vinyl and cassettes.
From OPN to vaporwave
In the words of Jacques Derrida, "The future can only belong to ghosts".
The impact of footwork.
The return of narcissism and the Arca Revolution.
City pop has never been a global phenomenon.
And everyone hates the internet.
Why analogue vinyl is so important.
The changing music market.
The masters, or popular movements and music
Black culture in the 2010s, after the Obama administration (Kinnara: Desi La / translated by Tsutomu Noda)
Kanye West's Prophecy: A Plunge from Grace (Gillian Marshall / translated by Kentaro Goi)
The jazz of the 2010s you must hear (Mitsuru Ogawa).
Dance music from a vibrant Africa (Tadasu Mita)
Sakamoto Shintaro: Protest music that has been deflated (Tsutomu Noda).
The triumph and death of Generation X: Japanese alternative that fizzled out with idols (Ian F. Martin / translated by Rie Eguchi)
Musashino was the centre of Tokyo back then: cero, the forest is alive, we who made music our friend (Yuji Shibasaki)
From the Net to the streets - Vocaloids, Maltine, tofubeats and Mars89 (Takune Kobayashi)
Popstars as modern gods: the media and the state of the sacred image in fandom (Gillian Marshall / translated by Kentaro Goi)
The Mumblecore Movement (Itaru Mita)
How BLM changed the UK (Mariko Sakamoto and Tsutomu Noda)
Writers' picks of the best and most beloved albums of the 2010s that you should listen to now.
(Ryutaro Amano, Yusuke Kawamura, Tsuyoshi Kizu, Takune Kobayashi, Tsutomu Noda, Toru Hashimoto, Itaru Mita, Shiho Watanabe)
What kind of music has the media rated in the 2010s?
The 30 best albums of 2023
The 23 best reissues of 2023
The 10 best of 2023 by genre
Techno (Kyoya Inomata) / Indie rock (Ryutaro Amano) / Jazz (Mitsuru Ogawa) / House (Kyoya Inomata) / US hip hop (Yoshiro Takahashi) / Japanese rap (Tsuya-chan) / Ambient (Itaru Mita)
My top 10 favourites of 2023
─ Individual charts by a total of 17 groups of writers/musicians/DJs, etc.
(Ryutaro Amano, Hiroshi Egaitsu , Mitsuru Ogawa, Milo Oyamada, Casanova. S, Yusuke Kawamura, Tsuyoshi Kizu, Yuji Shibasaki, Tsuya-chan, Denshinooto, James Hadfield, Makoto Futaki, Mars89, Ian F Martin, Hiroto Matsushima, Itaru Mita, yukinoise)
VINYL GOES AROUND PRESENTS Because there's a record there.
Vol. 3 New scenes are created by the younger generation (Toshio Mizutani & Mao Yamazaki)
size 218 x 152 / 160 pages
https://www.ele-king.net/books/010177/