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Photographer Dennis Morris, who published a book of his photographs of Lee Perry, who passed away last year, looks back on his career and the music scene across the age.

Daido Moriyama calls his personal photography magazine Record his lifework and lifeline. We interviewed Daido Moriyama himself about the meaning of the magazine and his photographs.

Peppe introduces his first encounter with Japanese culture through his manga. The third installment is on his trip to a Japanese sake brewery in Okutama, Tokyo.

Kan Takagi, a leading figure of Japanese club culture since the 1980s when all kinds of music crossed over, talks about the scene as he recalls those days.

Brian Eno’s exhibition BRIAN ENO AMBIENT KYOTO is currently being held at the former Welfare Center of Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank.

In the sixth installment, we report on the Android and Music Science Laboratory opening at the Art Science Department, Osaka University of Arts, where Keiichiro Shibuya recently started working as a visiting professor.

The interview explores Max Cooper’s latest sound expressions in his new album Unspoken Words, which was inspired by a line from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

An integral part of the LA funk scene, XL Middleton spoke about the background of his latest work which features Japanese city pop samples, his attraction to city pop and its similarities to G-funk, and Salt Box Records which is a record store he owns.

In the fifth installment of this series, we report on “MIRROR,” an android opera shown in Dubai in March of this year.

Shy Thompson, an up-and-coming American journalist who writes for Pitchfork and Bandcamp Daily, unravels Mioko Yamaguchi’s ’80s masterpiece of Japanese synthpop and her latest work “FAIRYTHM.”