Tomohiro Konuta didn't have lofty ambitions when he and his friend Syem started the online music label Maltine Records in 2005. They were just two teenagers looking for a little attention.

"Syem and I were making tracks at that time and needed a place where we could release them," Konuta says. "We were freshman in high school. Before we started Maltine, we were just ordinary students."

Six years on, Maltine has morphed from a means for a pair of adolescents to self-release their songs into a dozens-strong collection of electronic artists responsible for, at the moment, 92 releases — all of which can be streamed and downloaded for free at the label's official website.