NetLabel Artists Essentials

Online self-publishing artists have been around for almost as long as the internet, growing and maturing in tandem. NetLabels—music imprints that exist almost completely online—form a strong part of Japan's musical make-up. The artists within the community channel the limitless creative freedom of the web to push current standards and boundaries, with banvox's heavy duty EDM beats, Masayoshi Iimori's high-stakes trap bangers, and Miii's esoteric sampling all representing music's bleeding edge, in Japan and beyond.