Japan’s scene shows that psytrance did not travel in one direction. Local artists, promoters and audiences reinterpreted an international repertoire under their own conditions.
Regular connections to Goa and European circuits made Japan a structural part of the transnational network documented by researchers.
This record is a doorway. The archive would rather declare a gap and invite contribution than fill space with generalisations.
A numbered run of objects made for the people who were there — and the ones who wish they had been. What is inside stays classified until the list opens. Signal subscribers get first access, before anyone else, and the run never comes back.