"ele-king vol.23" ele-king editorial department (ed.)
List price: ¥1,500 + tax
Release date: 2018/12/27

Tabito Nanao “Looking back on the past and talking about the present”
30 best albums of 2018

Special feature: Why does music now focus on non-human subjects?
Food Festival/EARTHEATER/etc.

Contents

Cover photo: Hitoshi Ohashi

Interview Tabito Nanao - Looking back on the past and talking about the present (Tsutomu Noda/Hitoshi Ohashi)

30 best albums of 2018
(Ryutaro Amano, Tsuyoshi Kizu, Takune Kobayashi, Hayato Takahashi, Tsutomu Noda, Itaru Mita)
The era of concepts (Tsutomu Noda)
Bread, the eye of the 2018 typhoon (Takune Kobayashi)
Right-wing songs and “FUCK YOU Ondo” (Ryuutaro Amano)
Sweet scent of new generation soul from London (Toshiya Oguma)
What was good to play on the floor, what was good to listen to on the floor (Yosuke Yukimatsu)
Is vaporwave dead? (throw away dirt)
Kanye West continues to wander (Masashi Yoshida)
Japanese rap (Ryo Isobe)
Worldwide Japaneseization phenomenon!? (Mariko Sakamoto)
The indie scene is revitalized for the first time in several years (Yoko Sawai)
The 90s revival is still continuing (Tsutomu Noda)
New fatherhood shown by Young Fathers (Ryuutaro Amano)
Gender issues in music (Michiko Suya)

Essential Charts 2018
(Itaru Omae, Mitsuru Ogawa, Ground a.k.a Gr○un soil, Gonno, Yoshiharu Sato, Yoko Sawai, Food Festival a.k.a foodman, Satenaka, Denshinooto, TREKKIE TRAX CREW, Mars89, Midori Aoyama, Takumi Murata (Qantas Murata), Yonezawa Shintaro, RYUHEI THE MAN)
interview　Food Festival a.k.a foodman――Who said you can't dance to ambient music? (Itaru Mita/Yasuhiro Ohara)

Special feature: Why does music now focus on non-human subjects?
Interview　Earth Eater──Curiosity releases infinite truth　(Tsutomu Noda/Emi Aoki)
Thinking of music as life (Hayato Takahashi)
Notes on humans and non-humans (Takune Kobayashi)
Anti-Human Studies of Extinction and Coexistence (Hifumi Nakayama)
interview Masatake Shinohara - The non-human within us (Takune Kobayashi)

10 best movies of 2018
(Takeshi Kizu, Maki Mizukoshi, Itaru Mita)

CUT UP――Events of 2018
Feminism (Maki Mizukoshi)
Global warming, ecology, natural disasters (Tsutomu Noda)
Two years after the referendum, what is Britain 'take back'? (Mariko Sakamoto)
Signs of 'Black Panther' (Takune Kobayashi)
What the popularity of 'Homo Deus' can teach us (Yoshiharu Shiraishi)
Marcus Gabriel's Bet (Kohei Saito)
Looking back on 2018 novels (Atsushi Sasaki)
South Korean films highlight Japan's backwardness (Mita Itaru)
A near-future sci-fi game that reflects modern America (Takeshi Kizu)
Is the DIY Generation just an ideal? (Satoshi Taguchi)
Is life a vending machine? (Yasushi Kurihara + Yoshiharu Shiraishi/Yutaka Nakane)

REGULARS—SERIES
Tokyo's Top Boy Part 2 (Shintaro Yonezawa)
Towards the dissolution of hell (Michiko Suya)
Looking back on 201H8 (Imazato)
Content of happiness vol.2 (Junko Gosho)
Music and Politics 11th (Ryo Isobe)
Random Poetry Collection No. 8 (Maki Mizukoshi)
Art Direction & Design: Sei Suzuki