We have always admired and sought the West. However, times are changing, and new cultural trends are beginning to emerge from Asia. This issue's guest editors, Go Kurosawa (Kikagaku Moyo) and TaiTan (Dos Monos), who run the music label "Guruguru Brain," discuss this, along with interviews with five leading Asian culture acts, including Eastern Margins and Yellow Fang. The article also touches on the Terayama Shuji, Yokoo Tadanori, and YMO boom among young people in China, the indie music community that emerged in Asagaya, Asian psychedelic art, football culture, and indie publishers. We explore clues to a new era in which "Asia sees Asia."
table of contents
◉New Asian Psychedelics
Selection = Go Kurosawa
◉ Editorial: A story that does not converge into one Text by Shotaro Yamashita (Editor-in-Chief of this magazine)
◉ Asia Conversation: TaiTan (Dos Monos) x Go Kurosawa (Guruguru Brain)
◉ The Dawn of Eastern Youth
Eastern Margins／bié Records／Yellow Fang／Orange Cliff Records／Yao Jui-Chung
◉ Beijing's indie boss appears in Asagaya; alternative community spreads from mogumogu
◉ Dirt-Roots
A collective connected by soccer
◉ Independent Editorials of Asian Designers
◉ Terayama Yokoo YMO
Japanese underground/subculture beloved in China
◉ Book Guide: A Hundred Years of Wandering: A Chronicle of Books by a Traveler in Asia
◉ Lost in Reality MOTE's Asian Club Drifter 2018/2024
Book Introduction
Title: "WORKSIGHT No. 25 Towards Asia"
Edited by: WORKSIGHT Editorial Department (Yoko Research Institute + Kurotorisha)
ISBN: 978-4-7615-0932-3
Art direction: Hiromi Fujita (FUJITA LLC.)
Issue date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Publisher: Kokuyo Co., Ltd. Released by: Gakugei Publishing Co., Ltd. Format: A5 variant / 128 pages Price: 1,800 yen + tax