Monthly Pickup

1.Lil Ugly Mane「Uneven Compromise」

Vinyl Experience(3) Vinyl sales are 5 times in six years

Text:Fumimasa Hori

You could say the United States is the world greatest music power.

The music sales which united the right income by musical secondary use with the charged 

music distribution which includes download and streaming service and physical media such

as CDs, vinyl was　the world's No.1 in the 2012 fiscal year.

Vinyl Experience(2)

Text:Fumimasa Hori

Before looking for records of current situation, let's look back on the history of records briefly.

Under the direction of Peter Goldmark who is a PhD in Electrical Engineering, It was 1948 
that American Columbia Records succeeded in commercializing mass production of LP 
records (33 rpm,diameter 30cm).It came to be called LP (short for Long Playing), because 
they could be played long　time much the same size as the vinyl LP before.

New Nambu(1)

Text:Onnyk

It is a book of “The man of jasmine” I found the word “fifth column” first.That is  the autobiography of a female poet,  Unica Zürn, her name sounds like a jelly in Japanese.She seemed to be ill a little.

Before becoming a 20-year-old, I was interested in such a word “schizo” or “paranoia”.Also, I got into now so called “outsider art” or literary version of it.It is as is often the case. Because, perhaps I was influenced by Yasutaka Tsutsui(1).

Vinyl Experience(1)

Text:Fumimasa Hori

「Generally thinking, we are not able to open a record shop in this economic condition.But people have been returning to analog.Especially,vinyl records」

Zachary Johnson, who has opened a record shop called Deadbeat Records in a small town Moscow of Idaho says.