London-based Masayuki Ishikawa created "a dense musical ideogram", " a collection of mystical, mysterious, mashed up trip hop downbeats, grungy drum & bass and ambient melodies", also described in the press as “...off-kilter isolationist tribalism and unhinged percussive freeforming.."

“My music isn’t East or West, it’s in the middle”, Tao (aka “Roger”) explains. “Sounds are a very important aspect of Japanese culture. Frogs, insects, rain all have rhythms, it’s the original freeform”.