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As Torch describes it:

In 2015, I decided to fly to NYC again. When I told Robert about it, he responded briefly: „I’m flying with you. I’ve never been to New York. Just book me the same flight as you.“ To my surprise, that’s exactly what happened. Our trip was from April 9th to the 21st, 2015, flying from Zurich to Newark. I had the contacts and knew my way around. He had the camera and captured everything. I was his guide on the ground, and he became my eyes.


Photography: Rob Hak
Texts: Frederik Hahn aka Torch
Authors: Robert Hak & Frederik Hahn


Written in 2024 / 1st Edition 2024
Editing: Adam Silverstein &
Bernd Kammerer / textonaut.de
Cover Design: Rob Hak / www.studiohak.de
Layout: studio hak, Rottweil
Printing: Otto Druck, Oberndorf a.N.
Bookbinding: Spinner, Ottersweier
Paper: Munken Print Cream

A crossroads of reggae and punk; a travelogue of Jamaica, UK, and Japan from 1982 to 2023, written and photographed. To resist is to live. 1982-2023. Jamaica, UK, Japan. The intersection of reggae and punk. There are photographs that take on new meaning as time passes. The lifework of photographer Masataka Ishida, who has been following the world's rebel music. A record of his 41-year journey in search of true freedom. The first product from Type Slowly.

MF DOOM knew that you should start the day off right with a delicious, nutritious bowl of the finest beats and rhymes! The new MF DOOM ReAction Figure Cereal Bowl Set is inspired by the album cover for DOOM’s fifth studio album, MM..FOOD, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. Packed in cereal box-style packaging that includes a maze of madness puzzle that can be cut out and worn as a mask, this figure set includes a 3.75” scale MF DOOM ReAction Figure with microphone accessory, a 33 oz. capacity cereal bowl, and a spoon with MF DOOM mask and logo details. Even after 20 years, MM..FOOD is a true feast for the ears— don’t miss your chance to add this MF DOOM Cereal Bowl Set to your collection of Hip Hop legends!

• Inspired by the album cover for DOOM’s fifth studio album, MM..FOOD, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024
• Includes 3.75” scale, articulated action figure with microphone accessory, and MF DOOM-themed cereal bowl and spoon
• Packed cereal box-style packaging with MF DOOM mask maze cutout on the back
• The perfect gift for any MF DOOM fan; collect the entire lineup of Hip Hop Legends action figures, apparel, and accessories by Super7!

• Product Accessories: Microphone, MF DOOM-themed cereal bowl and spoon
• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Package Dimensions (in): 11.25" x 7.88" x 3.5"
• Product Dimensions (in): 3.75
• Weight (lbs): 1.2 lb

Danzig is the perfect mix of menace, music, and muscles- the recipe for a true monster of Heavy Metal! This 5.5” scale Danzig Vintage figure is inspired by the debut album Danzig and the muscle-bound action figures made popular in the 1980s, comes packaged on a die cut card back with upside down cross blister detail, and includes a microphone accessory. Tell your children not to walk my way - tell them to pick up one of these uber-ripped Danzig Vintage figures!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Microphone
• Package Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 6 x 2
• Weight: 0.2 lb

The creation of the band Samhain marks Danzig’s transition from his early punk days to the more heavy metal-focused music of his next uncanny era! This 5.5” scale Samhain Vintage figure of Bloody Danzig is inspired by the group’s debut album “Initium” and the muscle-bound action figures made popular in the 1980s, features copious blood-drenched paint detail, comes packaged on a die cut card back with scarecrow blister detail, and includes a microphone accessory. Samhain was a delightfully demonic period in Danzig’s musical evolution, and bringing home this beyond-jacked Bloody Danzig figure will be a Black Dream come true for your collection of heavy metal masters!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Microphone
• Package Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 6 x 2
• Weight: 0.2 lb

Avril Lavigne is here to take the stage in your music collection! Jam out with this Pop! Albums Cover featuring Pop! Avril Lavigne from her hit album, Let Go! Pop! figure is adhered to the base and backdrop to ensure display integrity. Approximate dimensions of protective case: W 22.2 cm x H 22.2 cm x D 9.5 cm.

On the cover: The Body & Dis Fig. Inside: Farida Amadou, Steve Beresford, Pavel Richter, Dialect, petals, Erica Dawn Lyle, H-Fusion, Invisible Jukebox: Melt-Banana, The Inner Sleeve: Eve Libertine, Epiphanies: Roy Claire Potter, Global Ear: Barcelona, Unlimited Editions: YOUTH, plus in the review sections: Laurie Anderson, Belong, Seefeel, Three Quarter Skies, Dhangsha, NicoNote, Laura Cannell, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Endon, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Red Kross, David Corio’s images of Black musicians, the Gnaoua & World Music Festival, Gary Stewart, Lonnie Holley, specialist columnists, and more.

Turn up the volume in your music collection with Pop! Duff McKagan, legendary bass guitarist of Guns N' Roses! Who will this performer collaborate with next in your Pop! Rocks set? Vinyl figure is approximately 10.8 cm tall.

In 1999, Modest Mouse struck out for Chicago to record their major-label debut for Epic Records. Amid indie circle cries of “sellouts,” a largely untested producer, and a half-built studio, the trio recorded the instrumental basics of The Moon & Antarctica … and then singer/songwriter Isaac Brock got his face smashed by a hooligan in a park.

With barely any vocals recorded, Brock emerged from the hospital with his jaw completely wired shut, and returned to a mostly empty studio. And there, on a diet of painkillers, in a neighborhood that wanted to purge the band from its borders, a creative alchemy took place that would redefine Modest Mouse and indie rock at large.

The fact that the band finished the album at all is surprising. The fact that it is now considered by critics as “hands-down one of the greatest records ever made” (NME) is perhaps an utter miracle.

The Moon & Antarctica is an album so strange and enigmatic, from those sweet opening notes, to the plunging depths of the middle, to the shocking, furious end, that you almost hesitate to listen to it again for fear of it losing its chaotic magic. But then you do, and you discover all-new sounds-a lost harmonic here, a stray percussion element there, a fresh interpretation of a lyric that leaves you thunderstruck.

And that ever-looming question, years on: How the hell did Modest Mouse pull this off?!

A larger-than-life Hip Hop legend like Madvillain calls for a larger-than-life action figure! This 16” tall, poseable SuperSize Vinyl figure is inspired by Hip Hop supergroup Madvillain’s animated comic-book-come-to-life music video “ALL CAPS,” featuring art from James Reitano at TFU Studios. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the album Madvillainy in 2024, this premium soft vinyl figure is outfitted in a non-removable soft goods trench coat and features articulation at the neck, shoulders, waist, wrists, and ankles. The Madvillain SuperSize figure is ready to make a big impression on your collection of Hip Hop legends—grab yours today!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Package Dimensions (in): 20.5" x 12.25" x 14.25" / ca. 20,5 cm x 31,1 cm x 36,2 cm
• Product Dimensions (in): 16" / ca. 41 cm
• Weight: 11.6 lb / ca. 5,3 kg

The next instalment in the Disco Pogo Tribute series is the legendary electronic artist Aphex Twin.

This follows the hugely successful Disco Pogo Tribute to Daft Punk. Like Daft Punk, the people behind Disco Pogo have had a long-standing relationship with Richard D. James for over 30 years via their 90s magazine Jockey Slut.

The book is edited by Disco Pogo editor Jim Butler and features interviews, essays and features from the best music journalists working today.

The book features an iconic cover portrait of Aphex by seminal photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, plus a huge amount of great photography of Richard since the very beginning from some of the best music photographers in the world.

Thanks also to the designer of Aphex's logo Paul Nicholson who has opened up his archives to us and also the assistance and support from the label homes of Aphex - Warp, R&S and Rephlex. Thanks also to the people behind Aphex fan website Lanner Chronicle.

Hardcover edition, 250 plus pages and is beautifully designed and printed of course.

Tune in to your favourite channels with Pop! Music Television®! Complete your Ad Icons collection when you bring this adorable television set into your home as a Pop! figure! Vinyl figure is approximately 10.6 cm tall.

Turn up the volume in your music collection with Pop! Axl Rose, legendary singer and songwriter of Guns N' Roses! Who will this performer collaborate with next in your Pop! Rocks set? There's a 1 in 6 chance you may find the chase of Pop! Axl Rose in an alternate outfit! Vinyl figure is approximately 10 cm tall.

Pop! T-Pain is ready to take the stage in your music collection in the stylish ensemble from his hit song “That’s Just Tips”! Who will this rap artist collaborate with in your Pop! Rocks collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 11.5 cm tall.

Highlights of our Crush issue include… Karabo Mookie… The brilliant thing about authenticity is that you are either authentic or not. There’s no way to try it, no way to buy it. And that’s why, in the current climate of everybody wanting to be everything at any given time in praise of rising follower numbers, the work of Johannesburg-based photographer and filmmaker Karabo Mooki - and the way he explores local subcultures - cannot be appreciated highly enough.

Alison Blickle… Myths are deeply embedded in basically every culture on our planet. They were necessities to explain our surroundings and the world itself, long before any kind of elaborate academic vocabulary offered a different view on things. And, in actuality, people still love to create them in order to make sense of a world that’s changing at warp speed. Los Angeles-based artist Alison Blickle now combines the ancient with the contemporary to form urgent and highly topical narratives in her amazing paintings.

DRE Dogue… If you understand life as a state less shaped by borders and rules but by connectivity and options, then it makes perfect sense to be constantly in motion instead of showboating your permanent residence. And celebrated photographer Dre Dogue does exactly that. From Manila to Tokyo, from Bangkok to Hong Kong. And then some more. Living the life of a full-time urban nomad for many years already, he travels Asia’s primate cities and beyond with his trusted analog cameras - and luckily, he isn’t getting tired of it at this point.

JAY Wilkinson … Your sense of self is much more defined by what your mind tells you about yourself than by the actual truths your very own storyline is offering. It’s way more fiction less facts. It’s basically a composition of disjointed half-truths placed on a rather porous timeline that keeps you going. Texas-based painter Jay Wilkinson is very much aware of this fact, and his latest series “free Dirt“ is his take on how memories are built by the permanent absorbance of information.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: John Brosio, Sunandbass, Mark Gonzales, LA Pools, and many others.

Roll out the red carpet for Pop! Tupac. He’s hitting the stage in style, dressed in quintessential 90s fashion, microphone in hand. Expand your Funko Pop! Music set and re-create all your favourite music moments with this noteworthy addition. Who will you collaborate with next? Vinyl figure is approximately 10.5 cm tall.

Get ready to shake your hips! Funko Pop! Shakira is taking the stage, and she’s dressed in her outfit from the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. Commemorate all your favourite music moments and hold your own impromptu concert. Who will Pop! Shakira collaborate with next in your collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 9.7 cm tall.

Turn up the volume in your music collection with Pop! Slash, legendary lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses! Who will this performer collaborate with next in your Pop! Rocks set? Vinyl figure is approximately 12.8 cm tall.

Enjoy a spine-chilling performance with Pop! Brendon Urie (Demon)! This artist is taking the stage in his ensemble from Panic! at the Disco’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” music video! Who will Panic! at the Disco collaborate with next in your Pop! Rocks collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 10.8 cm tall.

Shakira is here to liven up your music collection! Complete your Pop! Rocks lineup by welcoming Pop! Shakira to the stage as this Fijación Oral Vol. 1 Pop! Album Cover! Pop! figure is adhered to the base and backdrop to ensure display integrity. Approximate dimensions of protective case: W 22.2 cm x H 22.2 cm x D 9.5 cm.

Roll out the red carpet and hang the disco ball. Pop! Snoop Dogg is hitting the stage in style, dressed in his outfit from the Sexual Seduction video. Expand your Funko Pop! Music set and re-create all your favourite music moments with this noteworthy addition. Vinyl figure is approximately 10 cm tall.

On the cover: Tomeka Reid. Inside: KMRU, Gordan, Bodies in Motion: Malik Nashad Sharpe + NWAKKE + Bianca Scout, Tongue In The Mind, Nick Dunston, Nika Son, Henry Birdsey, Sisso & Maiko, Invisible Jukebox: Karl Bartos, Global Ear: Belgrade, Unlimited Editions: Notice Recordings, Unofficial Channels: A Moon Age Daydream, The Inner Sleeve: Alison Cotton on John Cale & Terry Riley’s Church Of Anthrax, Epiphanies: Jim Staley + 40 pages of reviews including Sun Ra, Chris Corsano, Skin Graft label, Nilotpal Das, Winter, Elton Dean, Cecil Taylor, Eno, Kim Gordon, Jeff Mills, Charles Curtis and specialist columnists including Steve Barker and Byron Coley + charts, letters, listings, and more.

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or “German New Wave,” was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better to burn out than fade away, but this doesn't tell the full story of NDW-the reason for its rapid rise and fall, the historical context that necessitated the genre, and where the energy of the NDW movement went after its end.

The genre has international influences but still demonstrates a uniquely German desire to build a new, sanitized identity in the aftermath of World War II. Originally quite subversive and underground, NDW became exponentially more mainstream until it could no longer sustain itself creatively. And rather than disappearing, it helped give rise to the post-Cold War rave craze and is still an important touchstone in music history.

Claudia Lonkin is a historian of popular music and culture based in the United States.
Her research focuses on global music trends in the 1970s and 1980s, examining congruences and points of contrast between scenes in Europe and the Americas. She has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Punk & Post-Punk.

168 pages
197 x 127 mm

High Energy / Disco Mexican Flyer 1980 – 2000 is a collection of sonidos music event flyers collected in Mexico City by Hector Mosko.

It gathers more than 120 artworks in the fantastic art style. Originally hand printed on different sort of papers, sizes and colors to promote Sonideros or club parties.

Second edition 100ex Format : 17×17,5cm 92 pages

Ready to spin into a toe stand and moonwalk across the stage? Pop! Michael Jackson™ is here to rock your Pop! Music set. He’s dressed in the outfit he wore in his Dirty Diana music video. Relive your favourite music moments and expand your Pop! Rocks collection. Make this noteworthy addition the star of your collection. Vinyl figure is approximately 10.8 cm tall.

"For A Fleeting Moment" is the result of the dialogue between the Swiss photographer Simone Kappeler and the Japanese musician Tomotsugu Nakamura initiated by Iikki, between March 2023 and May 2024.

Tomotsugu Nakamura is a musician and graphic designer residing in Tokyo, Japan. His primary artistic practice is to compose music with some fragments of minimal acoustic and electronic tones and some field recordings. In Concert, he he has played with various genre of musicians and his works have been released by Kaico, Audiobulb Records, and more recently by the French label Laaps.

Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) where she lives and works, Simone Kappeler started taking pictures at the age of 11. After studying German literature and art history, she studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. During a three-month trip to the United States in 1981, she took her first pictures using cheap cameras, especially the Diana camera. Hasselblad, Leica, Diana, Brownie, Polaroid, disposable camera, expired or infrared films, since 1970, Simone Kappeler has explored all types of photographic techniques. Her work, experimental and poetic, reveals to us the curiously foreign world that surrounds us. Since 1982, ongoing projects in southern France and the Grisons.1982/83, studio in New York, conceptual photography and Super 8 films. 1983/84, theater photographer, Schauspielhaus Zürich. 2009, six-week photographic study of Japan, 2015 studio in New York. Her work was the subject of a first monograph: "Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011", edited by Hatje Cantz and is regularly exhibited in Galleries and Museum in Europe and United States. For A Fleeting Moment is her first book gathered exclusively a part of her wide polaroid works from 2011 to 2023.

Fine Art Book, Ltd. to 700 copies: Hardcover book printed on Glossy Modern Paper 170g/m2 // 104 pages, 19cm x 22.5cm, 66 photos // Front cover points and back cover logo embossed // Selective UV varnish // Hand-numbered.

deadHYPE is back with the 3rd issue of their magazine deadHYPE CLTV. As always you can look forward to various interviews, articles and photo series from and about the community of the Berlin based creative collective.

“Raghunath’s transformation shows how one person’s choice to evolve can change the lives of so many. This book is real, funny, and inspirational.” – Jay Shetty The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore-punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight-edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Ray Cappo was a hardcore-punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth OF Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite the accolades from fans, the popularity of his records, and the positivity he’d brought to the punk music scene, none of this success gave Ray joy. He felt stagnant, and he yearned for something more. This, along with his father’s untimely death, led him to abruptly quit the band and buy a one-way ticket to India in pursuit of the answers to life’s great mysteries. Living as a monk in the sacred city of Vrindavan and traveling across the country on a series of train trips, Ray embraced the rich, spiritual culture he discovered there. As his unusual adventure unfolded, he encountered extraordinary characters, witnessed deep acts of devotion, and experienced profound moments of divine connection, leading to a radical transformation that was ego-crushing and blissful all at once. Inspired to write music again, Ray returned to the US, where he and other monks founded Shelter, a band dedicated to spreading a message of faith, hope, and love. Told with warmth, candor, and humor, this heartfelt memoir chronicles Ray’s emotional and

On The Cover: Unpublished JOE Dilworth photo of MY Bloody Valentine, from sessions for their Isn't Anything record. My Bloody Valentine: Revelatory, unpublished interview excerpts from hours of tapes with Kevin Shields by editor Mike Mcgonigal conducted for his 33 book on Loveless. Inside: A great interview with Joe Dilworth by Mike Galinsky and pages of his photos of London's underground music scenes in the 1980s and '90s, including unseen images of MBV. Will Oldham: Great, lengthy conversation with his collaborator and longtime friend Nathan Salsburg, on the occasion of their record of Lungfish covers. Harvey Milk: Epic, well-illustrated oral history of the pioneering '90s Athens, GA-based doom/ heavy-rock/ experimental/otherwise unclassifiable and influential band. Justin Green: New scans of the underground cartoonist's music comics, many originally published in Tower's Pulse magazine. 18 full pages, with text by comics historian John KELLY."

Prince of Grass is the debut poetry collection from Dan Wriggins, songwriter and frontman of the band Friendship. Loving and absurd, Wriggins' poems are overflowing cauldrons of metaphor, always inviting, always in motion. For fans of James Tate, C.D. Wright, David Berman, and pie for breakfast. Dan Wriggins is a writer and musician from Maine. He records and tours solo and with the band Friendship. His debut poetry collection, Prince of Grass, is coming in July of 2024 from Dear Life Records. He lives in Philadelphia with his dog, Roy.

On the cover of the magazine: 19 page special feature – inside the sound world of David Lynch, including a new interview with the director and his music collaborators Chrysta Bell Zucht and Dean Hurley + essays on Dune, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Wild At Heart, backwards speech, wind sounds, drones, finger clicks, lip-syncing, and more.

Also in the magazine: interviews with Copper Sounds, Miaux, and Theodora Laird & Caius Williams, plus: Invisible Jukebox: Dhangsha, Unlimited Editions: Discreet Music, Epiphanies: Lonnie Holley, The Inner Sleeve: Mabe Fratti, Global Ear: Monterrey, and 36 pages of reviews including Vijay Iyer, World Service, Joe McPhee, Paul Burwell, new histories of krautrock and free jazz, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and more.

Finally: all copies of the August issue come complete with a free CD of The Wire Tapper 65 featuring 16 new tracks by Farida Amadou, Mettani, Landless, Noémi Büchi, Doc Sleep, TAU, and more.

JIMI HENDRIX™ had an electrifying career highlighted by ground-breaking live performances! The latest 3.75” scale, articulated JIMI HENDRIX™ Festival ReAction Figure is inspired by the legendary guitarists’ iconic festival looks and features him in a blue-and-white fringed tunic and bell bottom blue jeans, and comes with an electric guitar accessory. Adding this JIMI HENDRIX™ ReAction Figure to your collection of rock and roll legends is as easy a decision as you’ll ever have to make!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Electric guitar
• Package Dimensions (in): 9"x6"x1"
• Weight: 0.2 lb

The twelfth issue of We Jazz Magazine, "Worldwide" for Gilles Peterson. 128 pages, 170 x 240 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote covers. All articles presented in English. Includes Gilles Peterson by Anton Spice, Ingrid Laubrock by Stewart Smith, Hannibal Lokumbe by Bret Sjerven, Universal Folks Sounds by Magnus Nygren, Spoken Word / Free Jazz by Alex Coles, Dutch Jazz Archive by Danny Veekens, Takuya Kuroda by Rob Garratt, Jan Roder and Michael Griener of Die Enttäuschung by Bill Meyer, divr by Daryl Worthington, Astro Can Caravan by Wif Stenger, Discaholic Column by Mats Gustafsson, J Jazz 1955-88 by Tony Higgins + album reviews & more.

In 1987, Salt-N-Pepa became the first female hip-hop act to achieve platinum status and have gone on to become icons of the industry as the First Ladies of Hip-Hop! This Salt-N-Pepa ReAction Figure 2-pack is inspired by the duo’s looks from their first hit music video “Push It” and includes a pair of microphone accessories. Add a little flavor to your collection with the addition of this Salt-N-Pepa ReAction Figure 2-pack!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: A pair of microphone accessories
• Product Dimensions (in): 3.75"
• Weight (lbs): 0.2 lb

400 page hardcover large format book - Includes CD with 10 Japanese Jazz tracks - Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden - Only 2000 copies printed - Largest picture book on Japanese Jazz ever printed - First and only picture book devoted to Japanese Jazz covers to be produced outside Japan - Extra sections on non-Japanese artists and Blue Note albums produced exclusively for the Japanese market - Includes intro by Terumasa Hino plus articles by Yusuke Ogawa, Mats Gustafsson, Tony Higgins and interview with Tohru Aizawa - DJ J Jazz Top Tens from around the world BBE Music is thrilled to present J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era. Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, co-curators of BBE Music's acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series, the book also features a foreword by Japanese jazz icon, Terumasa Hino.

This is the first time a book of this type has been published outside of Japan and the first anywhere of this size and scale. It is a unique collection of over 500 albums of free and modern jazz released in Japan during a period of radical transformation and constant reinvention. An era that saw Japan return from the ravages of World War Two to become a global economic power and emerge as both a technological leader and an international cultural force.

Through a unique gallery of albums, J Jazz charts the development of jazz in Japan from the first stirrings of the modern jazz scene in the mid to late 1950s and on through the hard bop and modal jazz of the 1960s. It steers the reader into the radical directions of the 1970s when free jazz, fusion, post-bop, and jazz-funk opened up a growing number of Japanese jazz artists to a new global audience before consolidating in the mid to late 1980s with a musical scene that laid the path for the contemporary jazz generation to follow.

Over 500 full-colour sleeves from many of the leading names in Japanese jazz sit alongside rare and private pressings that tell a story of constant change and musical exploration. J Jazz includes profiles of several leading record labels such as East Wind, Frasco, King Records, and Nippon Columbia as well as critical independents such as Three Blind Mice, ALM, and Aketa’s Disk. J Jazz includes interviews with celebrated jazz photographer Tadayuki Naito, and pianist Tohru Aizawa, bandleader on the totemic spiritual jazz album, Tachibana Vol 1, as well as free-jazz record collector and jazz musician Mats Gustafsson.

The book also features a chapter on albums by non-Japanese artists that only received a Japanese release, with collectible, rare, and obscure releases by figures such as Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, and Art Blakey. J Jazz includes Japanese jazz charts from some of the world's leading jazz DJs including Gilles Peterson, Toshio Matsuura, Paul Murphy, and Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino. Among the specialist content is a feature on obi strips by record dealer and Japanese jazz expert, Yusuke Ogawa, plus a special article on Japanese Blue Note albums.

Across its 300-plus pages, J Jazz includes a detailed introduction contextualising the music, tracing the story of Japan's fascination with jazz back before the war. It also features biographical information on many of the key artists involved in shaping the post- war Japanese jazz scene including Sadao Watanabe, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masabumi Kikuchi, Masahiko Togashi, Terumasa Hino, Yosuke Yamashita, Fumio Itabashi, Masayuki Takayanagi, Takeo Moriyama, Isao Suzuki, and many more.

eye_C Magazine's first cover this time is dedicated to the mag's legacy and their Spring 24 collection titled ‘Snow in April’. The cover shoot, shot in Tokyo is also accompanied by an interview with one Jockum Hallin, one of the label’s co-founders. Their second sees the return of norbit by Hiroshi Nozawa as a cover brand featuring an editorial shot in the mountains west in the Greater Tokyo area. Lastly a simple cover dedicated to eye_C Magazine's love of Navy featuring some of the latest pieces from the editor’s choice x SEE SEE.

eye_C Magazine also included several multi-brand editorials for this issue featuring a plethora of different labels alongside their regular product highlights.

Big Takeover returns with features on THE Damaned, Slowdive (part 2), Jesus & Mary Chain, Meat Bodies, Real Estate, J. Robbins, Alejandro Escovedo, Meat Puppets, Camera Obscura, Jane Weaver, Mary Timony, Umbrellas, THE Shop Window, Paul Collins, and more!

Drumz Of The South: The Dubstep Years (2004-2007) is the first photography book to present the early days of dubstep in detail. It features over 200 photographs by Georgina Cook from events and radio stations such as FWD>> at Plastic People, DMZ and Rinse FM, plus pioneering producers, DJs and MCs like Burial, Skream and Benga, Mala & Coki, Loefah and Sgt Pokes, Plastician, Kode9, Hatcha & Crazy D, Skepta and Wiley.

Originally published in 2021 as a Kickstarter campaign, this second edition features a complete redesign, hardback cover and essays from Blackdown, Charlie Dark MBE, Emma Warren and others. The book is 24cm x 17cm, and the 224 pages are printed on heavyweight paper with a hardback cover.

“The first time I heard dubstep was in 2004, in my friend Mala’s car outside my favourite local bar, The Black Sheep, in Croydon. He played me his track B, and it sounded like nothing else I’d heard before. As a photographer of underground music, I knew I had to get involved. Twenty years, one Drumz Of The South blog and a whole load of photos later, and I’m making a photo-book of what ended up being a life-changing journey with the early dubstep scene.” Georgina Cook

Featuring over 200 photos taken in and around South London, posts from the original blog, hand-drawn notes and more, Drumz Of The South: The Dubstep Years (2004-2007) is both a record of an extraordinary moment in contemporary music history, and a personal story of community and creativity.

2004-2007 was the peak of Georgina’s involvement in the scene, at a time when it was still largely made in suburban bedroom studios and played in dark rooms and on pirate radio stations like Rinse FM. Alongside photos of the dancefloors of seminal nights like DMZ and FWD>> at Plastic People, are candid photos and portraits of artists like Mala, Loefah, Sgt.Pokes, Hatcha, Kode9, Vex’d, Skream and Burial. Nestled among these images are scenes from South London, which root the sound to the place.

REVIEWS

“When dubstep was beginning in tiny London basements armed only with rib-crushing sound systems and an abundance of creativity, Georgina Cook was there – camera in hand. She is the photographer-of-record for the scene’s key inflection points. Her work is an unrivalled snapshot in time, documenting in light a community dedicated to getting lost in dark sounds.” Blackdown

“Much needed light shining on the early dubstep scene.” Gilles Peterson

“An important historical document of a DIY sound and community. You can almost smell Croydon.” Sports Banger

“What Drumz of the South offers is a demonstration of the vitality of people to create and move culture, to form communities across distances both close and far.” Alex Brent (Radical Art Review)

“As a physical document of a nascent sound, Drumz Of The South shows the importance of archiving the beginnings of a small subculture which went on to alter the course of electronic music history.” Charlie Bird (DJ Mag)

This issue features exclusive interviews with Donovan, Adam Green, P.G. Six, Modern Nature, Moving Gelatine Plates and Pete Brown (pt. 2), as well as features about Cornwall's Psychedelic Underground, the Gathering of the Juggalos, Folklore Tapes, LSD Underground 12, Vascha, book reviews, new music reviews, creative writing, poetry & more.

Shellac, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robyn’s Rocket, Zoh Amba, Normil Hawaiians, Kalia Vandever, Antti Vauhkonen, Marion Cousin, Invisible Jukebox: Iceboy Violet, The Inner Sleeve: Kai Fagaschinski on The Jimmy Giuffre 3, Global Ear: Berlin choir A Song For You, Unlimited Editions: Ipecac, Unofficial Channels: Music Republic & Moroccan Tape Stash, Epiphanies: Tashi Wada on tuning systems, plus 40 pages of reviews including Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe, FUNK.BR: São Paulo, Christer Bothén featuring Bolon Bata, Somerset House Studios’ Assembly, and much more

On the cover: Still House Plants. Inside: Cheer-Accident, Lolina, NikNak, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Ana Lua Caiano, BBBBBBB, Fatboi Sharif, Angelica Sanchez, Invisible Jukebox: Kristin Hersh, Unlimited Editions: Tripalium Corp, The Inner Sleeve: Lee Gamble on Chain Reaction, Epiphanies: Jlin on Philip Glass, Global Ear: Tashkent, plus 40 pages of reviews including Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Natalia Cappa, Bianca Scout, NOUT, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, punk rock in Northern Ireland, Indonesia and Kosovo, female Latin American electronic music composers, Sakamoto on film, and much more.

A four-year filming of the present-day live houses and clubs that supported band members and band kids from the 1980s to the 2010s, but are no longer around today. Tokyo Rockers - The band boom, the melodic hardcore boom, and the places where we kids poured our youth into.

The second volume of the "Past Venue GUIDE," which tracks the sites of live houses and clubs that have been our allies from the 1970s, the era of rapid economic growth, to the 2000s, is now available. In the previous issue, 42 sites were introduced, mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but this time 64 sites were covered. The coverage area has been expanded to include not only the Tokyo metropolitan area, but also Osaka, which is important for unraveling the history of punk/hardcore in Japan. The text (Japanese only) is kept as simple as possible, and more photographs are used to create a sense of realism. Full color, 56 pages. Random trading card included.

Very limited edition document to accompany the Various Artists - Noho EP: Turning THE Crank EP. 68 page, A5 size 'Zine' Printed with Risograph in grey scale.

Northampton, Massachusetts. The Five Colleges. Hampshire College. Forward-thinking education. Electronic Music studies. A vast student population created and sustained a vibrant cultural scene. This is but a snapshot of a fraction, but a fertile and significant one that impacted the lives of many who came in contact with it. The book follows a tight group of people who got together, made music, promoted and released it, created the conditions for others to record and release music, booked bands and then scattered throughout the Midwest and East Coast.

First person memories and memorabilia from Christopher Vine, Craig O'Donnell, Elliott Sharp, James Whittemore, Nicholas Brown, Sean Elias and others, patch up a story of joyous action, firm and enthusiastic DIY endeavours to make things happen as they would like them to happen. It is about a local scene and some key protagonists and it communicates values and methods that are still current — and probably will always be in some form or another among young people with a serious drive to act upon their artistic inclinations. This is also a depiction of what was in fact a model of a music scene. A complete ecosystem was in place during this period. Northampton, sure, but extended across the whole of Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Bars, music and record stores, live music, College radio, electronic music studios, written press and a lot of energy going into creative work. The immediate "punk effect" motivated the appearance of numerous bands, many short lived, others evolving into New Wave / Power Pop territory, eventually crossing into Post-Punk experimentation.

Turning The Crank is also a companion to an EP of the same title, including music played, produced and recorded in Northampton between decades (1970s going into the 1980s) by different combinations of individuals resulting in The Higher Primates, The Scientific Americans and Human Error. Music in turns mechanical and austere, gorgeously loose, in love with Dub.

An incomplete anthology of Memphis Hip-Hop albums from the nineties curated by 404 Eros & Asel Tambay.

“Cause times is changed and life is strange.” Ghostface Killah shines a light on the contrast between simpler, but tough days gone by and the complicated reality of trying to achieve a lavish lifestyle free of those hardships. This 3.75” scale articulated Ghostface Killah ReAction figure is inspired by his appearance in the music video for “Can It Be All So Simple” featuring his jacket, backward cap, and shorts as well as included gold chain and microphone accessories.

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Gold Chain, Microphone
• Package Dimensions (in): 9"x6"x1"
• Weight (oz): 3 oz

Delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket. The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero by Buchanan is an illustrated roll-call for punk, post-punk, hardcore, no-wave, and experimental bands from ground zero ‘til now. A starting point for anyone curious, another reference for those who devour all genre-related things, or a cool artifact for anyone in the know. This book is part of an ongoing series that covers musicians like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Poly Styrene, Don Letts, Minority Threat, and many others. From LA to London, from the early 1900s till today, Buchanan examines and presents narratives to show how Black musicians shape (and are shaped by) the world we live in. 64 full-color pages. 6.625" x 10.187" with spine.