I'm told Ryuto Miyake, the artist who sketched the portrait in front of me over hamburgers near his university in Tokyo, shares the same ideas about the music industry as the "real" Yoji Kido now sitting opposite me; mainly a desire to strip away labels and to cross genre-boundaries. A cliche maybe, but even while obviously conflicted and still working out his thoughts, he explains it with refreshing simplicity.
"It gets on my nerves when people claim something is 'the best genre.' Why? I know there are popular genres, but these days it's like an ants' nest."
There are too many of them?
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