Author: JICO stylus

ANAOG RECORD LOVERS #14

We interviewed Mr. MItsuhiro Asakawa who is the manga editor and repairs and sells the vintage cartridges. https://www.facebook.com/KabutaAudioLab/ – I heard you were the editor in charge of Yoshiharu Tsuge. When did you meet him? Mr. Tsuge had drawn manga until 1987, when I was a university student. I had been just a reader of […]

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ANALOG RECORD LOVERS #13

This time, we interview Katsuaki Maegaki, who runs “borzoi record” in Tottori, Japan. – Why did you get interested in records? In the first place, it was the golden age of record in my childhood. I listened to Japanese popular songs in my junior high school days. After that, my taste shifted to the Beatles […]

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ANALOG RECORD LOVERS #12

We interviewed AYU, a disc jockey of radio program “Record Cafe”. – How did you become a radio disc jockey? I was not a main announcer, but a reporter and an assistant originally. I’m from Ibaraki. I wanted to get a job as a speaker, so went to an announce school between the lectures of […]

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ANALOG RECORD LOVERS #11

We interviewed Mr. Yozo Kumitake. He runs “EAD Record” in Koenji, Tokyo. He also develops the audio equipments. – What is “EAD” of the shop name? The initials of E( “ii” means “good” in Japanese), Analog, and Disk, but it has different meaning originally. My elder brother starts the US old-clothes store which had same […]

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