As Aphex Twin, Richard D. James sat out roughly half of the last 25 years—a couple of obscure side-project releases and the Analord project comprises all the new material he issued between 2001 and 2014—but he’s still arguably the most important electronic producer to release music during that span. His astonishing gift for melody and kinetic sense of groove and swing keeps his music perennially fresh, whether he’s experimenting on a single synth, directing machines to play instruments, or crafting the warm, funky, and mysterious tracks with which he made his name. As Mark Richardson
Burna Boy was born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the grandson of a one-time manager of Fela Kuti, and he carries the mantle of that icon of African music. Burna dubs his own style “Afro-fusion”: a mixture of sounds from the continent along with global strains of hip-hop, EDM, and pop. In an era where correcting historical injustice feels more urgent than ever, Burna Boy’s all-encompassing, pan-Africanist style is helping to rectify deep-seated imbalances of power and representation. Reviewing his 2020 album
Few contemporary songwriters are better chroniclers of loneliness and infatuation than Mitski, the Japanese-American indie rock artist who’s made a decade’s worth of gutting, sad songs about violent loves, racial alienation, and depression. Over time, her sound has gotten clearer and shinier, but it’s no less wrenching. As Quinn Moreland
The countries covered in the report were the 5 major European markets: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. We also covered the US and Canada (a major producer of animation) and Australia. Those countries represent quite well the global market even though Japan, probably the largest animation market in the world, is not represented.
Shiseido Baby Powder is a a handy and functional Japanese pressed powder that smoothens and brightens the skin by controlling skin oil excretion as well as covering pores.
