Calamitous. The world was a bouncin' in 2004.

The land bounced. The sea bounced. Big trucks bounced in a downburst in Yokohama. For so many people, what just finished was the worst year of their lives.

And yet, here inside the Japan psychedelic trance bubble, the just-ended year was above average. But then, after 2003, it seemed that our sphere didn't have any other direction to go than up.