Radio host Jayda B is wrapping up an interview with Japanese electronic artist starRo as I enter JBS, a cozy Shibuya bar where the walls are lined with records. Later, she'll edit the recording down for her self-produced program DENTradio, which airs weekly on a radio station in her hometown of Atlanta. She began the show while studying in Japan in 2010, and takes care of all the program's promotional elements, including writing descriptions and social media blurbs in English and Japanese. But now, it's her turn to be interviewed.
"I've only been back in Japan for a few months and already everything has been really busy," she says. "Everything I've been positive about has actually happened. But it has been happening so quickly."
Jayda B recently began hosting another radio show, Press Play Japan, hosted by Block.fm, a Tokyo-based English-language Internet radio station. The program aims to introduce Japan's underground club music to local non-Japanese electronic music fans and those outside the country.