MAGAZINE
Even if you don't know a rave from Ricky Martin, Zavtone provides a color-splashed snapshot of global dance culture. Calling itself a magazine for the "digital age of new. Future, spacey & dance" [sic], Zavtone manifests itself in issues dedicated to drum and bass, ambient, and parties.
Launched in Tokyo in 1997, with a splinter editorial office in San Francisco, the bilingual quarterly journal is speckled with warmly humorous translations. But beyond the written word, the editors have a spectacular eye for image. One recent issue is loaded with the psychotropic fashion of Issey Miyake and electronic visual artists like France's Mac Guff Ligne studio (famous for their vicious fantasy dogs).
Despite the magazine's engagement with technology, the Zavtone collective seems ever busy celebrating life in its more human forms - from organizing technofests in San Francisco to heading up the Rainbow 2000 festival in Hakusan, Japan. Even if you don't subscribe, read about the Zavtone parties via their Web site.
Zavtone: $45 for four issues or $13 each. Zavtone Magazine: www.zavtone.com.
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