"ele-king vol.22" Tsutomu Noda + Itaru Mita (ed.)

List price: ¥1,500 + tax
Release date: 2018/6/27

This is a special feature titled ``How Music Sees the World.''

Special feature 1: Accelerating new phase of OPN and avant pop
Feature 2: Afrofuturism

Contents

Front photo: Masayuki Shioda

Special feature 1: Accelerating new phase of OPN and avant pop
preface Preface dedicated to OPN (Kyosuke Higuchi)
interview Oneohtrix Point Never (Itaru Mita/Mariko Sakamoto)
column　My favorite OPN (Atsushi Sasaki, Mariko Sakamoto, Yusuke Kawamura, Kohei Yagi, Masato Matsumura, Takeshi Kizu, Denshinooto, Takuon Kobayashi, Tsutomu Noda)

A new phase of avant-pop [*Why pop needs experimentation]
Interview Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab) (Ian F. Martin/Kentaro Goi)
Interview Dirty Projectors (Tsuyoshi Kizu + Takuon Kobayashi/Mariko Sakamoto)
Interview Jan St. Varner (Mouth on Mars) (Itaru Mita/Mariko Sakamoto)
column Holger Czukay (Shinya Matsuyama)
column Brian Eno (Takune Kobayashi)
column Ryuichi Sakamoto (Seitsugu Hosoda)
column Glenn Branca (Masato Matsumura)
column Arthur Russell (Tsutomu Noda)
column　Difference between “avant-garde” and “experiment” (Masato Matsumura)
avant-pop disc guide 40　(Itaru Mita, Mariko Sakamoto, Denshinooto)

CUT UP　informations & columns　[*Summary of trends in the first half of 2018]
HOUSE (Yusuke Kawamura) / TECHNO (Yosuke Yukimatsu) / BASS MUSIC (Naoki Iijima)
/HIP HOP (Takashi Mita) / POPS (Tsutomu Noda) / FASHION (Satoshi Taguchi)
/ IT (Ryoko Morishima) / FILM (Takeshi Kizu) / FOOTBALL (Tsutomu Noda)

Special Feature 2: Afro-Futurism [*The meaning of not closing in on black]
column　Non-linear system coming from the periphery (Hayato Takahashi)
interview Chino Amobi (Hayato Takahashi)
column The thing behind Drexia (Tsutomu Noda)
interview Klein (Takune Kobayashi / Shintaro Yonezawa)
column Looking back in search of the future (Akihiro Yamamoto)
interview Yoshitaka Mohri (Tsutomu Noda + Takune Kobayashi)
afrofuturism disc guide 35 (Tsutomu Noda, Takune Kobayashi)

REGULARS　[*Serialization! ]
Content of happiness vol. 1 (Junko Gosho)
Random Poetry Collection No. 7 (Maki Mizukoshi)
Top Boy in Tokyo 1st (Shintaro Yonezawa)
Music and Politics 10th (Ryo Isobe)