{"id":178356,"date":"2025-06-12T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178356\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:19:23","slug":"new-visual-book-explores-the-early-years-of-hardcore-culture-in-japan-%c2%b7-news-%e2%9f%8b-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178356\/","title":{"rendered":"New visual book explores the early years of hardcore culture in Japan \u00b7 News \u27cb RA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New visual book explores the early years of hardcore culture in Japan \u00b7 News \u27cb RA<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Grid__GridStyled-sc-si5izk-0 fqeAqn grid\">\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 cdoPJo\">\n<p>Published<\/p>\n<p>Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 11:15<\/li>\n<li id=\"10415563\" class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 cdoPJo\"\/><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"Grid__GridStyled-sc-si5izk-0 jDLXQE grid\">\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 iugREN\"\/>\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 bGnrTR\">Manga Corps documents over a decade of the hardcore and gabber scene in Japan with a curated visual collection from the 1990s\u20132000s.<\/li>\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 iEOQQR\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMucmEuY28vaW1hZ2VzL25ld3MvMjAyNS9tYW5nYWNvcnBzaGVhZGVyLmpwZWc=.jpeg\" alt=\"New visual book explores the early years of hardcore culture in Japan image\"   class=\"Image-sc-mve7dk-0 cUdKrd\"\/><\/li>\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 dDKClb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/gabbereleganza\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/gabbereleganza\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabber Eleganza<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/record-label.aspx?id=16879\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/record-label.aspx?id=16879\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"noopener\">Never Sleep<\/a> are releasing a book.\n<p>Manga Corps traces the early years of hardcore and gabber in Japan with a curated range of visual artefacts including flyers, graphics and designs of the &#8217;90s and early &#8217;00s.<\/p>\n<p>The 192-page book tells the story of hardcore taking hold in Japan, with its initial arrival sparking in 1993 from a licensing deal between label Avex Trax and Rotterdam Records. Extreme genres were shunned from Japan&#8217;s mainstream venues and vendors in the early &#8217;90s, so they thrived in the underground. Similar in grit, trade and working-class roots to other hardcore capitals\u2014Rotterdam and Frankfurt\u2014Osaka was the home of many of Japan&#8217;s first hardcore pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>Manga Corps follows hardcore to Tokyo and demonstrates the crossover of gaming subculture with electronic music. Gaming, raving and ambitious designing find unfiltered fusion in this archive of a historical underground scene.<\/p>\n<p>Find the book on the <a href=\"https:\/\/neversleep.life\/products\/manga-corps\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/neversleep.life\/products\/manga-corps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"noopener\">Never Sleep website<\/a>, where it will be officially available on June 26th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mangacorps1.jpg\" class=\"Image-sc-mve7dk-0 cUdKrd\"\/><\/li>\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 iAZnAz\"\/>\n<li class=\"Column-sc-4kt5ql-0 kqMgJp\"\/><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New visual book explores the early years of hardcore culture in Japan \u00b7 News \u27cb RA Published Thu,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,4521,77,2122,4520,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-english","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-magazine-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670361908890449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}