In the fast and chaotic protoculture growing around psychedelic trance in Japan, it is often difficult at best and futile at worst to try to get a genuine fix on the direction in which we are headed.
It's the nature of our free-spirited sphere to defy predictability. But faced with recent developments, it doesn't take much of a prognosticator to see that we are entering interesting times.
Half-way through 2005, the party momentum in and around Tokyo is an easy dozen light years ahead of where we were this time last year. And this time next year? Who knows? I am seeing a lot of positive signs. Let's look at five: