re: the japanese music-marketplace, someone asked: >>Isn't there anything a bit more "serious" out there? well, of course there is. for starters, one might try: ryuichi sakamoto. yoshiro hanno. toru takemitsu. nobukazi takemura. kk null (and others from the osaka 'noise' scene, a la the boredoms.....) hamza el-din (egyptian by birth, lives in tokyo.) dj krush. .....just off the top of me head..... etc. best, dt / splattercell