Record Culture #11

There are magazines about music, and then there are magazines about the world that music makes — the communities, the obsessions, the unlikely crossovers between a record collection and a way of dressing, thinking, living.
Record Culture is firmly in the second camp.
Now in its eleventh issue, it continues to do what it does better than almost anyone: find the people who sit at the quiet centre of niche music culture — not always the most famous, but always the most interesting — and give them the space to actually say something. This issue brings together Paul Takahashi, Nicolas Godin, Kiki Kudo, Jean Touitou, Frankie Teardrop, Jamie Tiller, Sound Metaphors, OKO DJ, Ariel Zetina, and Fraser Cooke — a lineup that spans continents, genres, and disciplines in the way that only Record Culture seems to pull off with such effortless conviction.
Alongside the interviews, Luke Jenner contributes Plant Bar, a short story, and the visual feature Eddie Ruscha: Sound / Waves does exactly what the title promises — somewhere between image and frequency, which feels exactly right.
For anyone who believes that the best music culture has always spilled well beyond the record itself — this one's for you.

Featuring Paul Takahashi, Nicolas Godin, Kiki Kudo, Jean Touitou, Frankie Teardrop, Jamie Tiller, Sound Metaphors, OKO DJ, Ariel Zetina, Fraser Cooke. As well as “Plant Bar,” a short story by Luke Jenner, and the visual feature “Eddie Ruscha: Sound / Waves”.

208 pages, perfect bound, softcover

Plus the supplement booklets:

• “The Invitations of Life... Child!” by Nicky Siano - 52 pages, saddle stitch, soft cover
• “You Can Hear Your Own Heartbeat: A Day at Audio-Technica” photographed by Kento Mori - 60 pages, perfect bound, soft cover