My boy Dobek moved from London to Tokyo some months back but during the time he lived in London, he would hook me up with JD exclusives and tons of Nikes. He has now moved to the land of much smaller feet. I’m sure the store owners would laugh at him if he asked for a “30cm.”
Anyway, he’s been righting this zine for some time now. He’s on issue #2. The first issue was cool. First half was the English version, second half was the jp translation. For issue #2, it’s all jp. And this time around, it’s a half sized zine. Dope.
I’d love to read the interviews. Porcell, Alex Brown, DFJ, Chris Wrenn. Great people. But, since I’m a stupid monoglot, I can only look at the pictures and wonder. Plenty of great pics and a stellar HYE?com advertisement.
To top it all off, Dobek loves making little presses of cool shit. So that’s what he did. He pressed up a few color copied covers with a clear plastic dual cover. The clear plastic was screened, front and back, and then individually personalized. You don’t see that anymore.
The nerd issue, he called it. I got #3. That’s nice. Some of those records in that picture were once in my collection. Traded for sneakers, not bad. Thanks Dobek.
So, if you are a polyglot literate, check this zine out. Regardless, go see what Dobek has brewing because he always has something on the back burner with CrucialxTimes Records. Check for that A Step Apart release soon.