Hey guys, Kame-Sen'nin here. Well, it's almost spring, but it's still pretty frickin' cold here in Tokyo. I wonder what the weather's like where you guys live? Warmer than here I hope! But I dunno, maybe some of you like cold weather? Well, Kame-Sen'nin likes it warm! [Translator's Note: Kame-Sen'nin is starting to sound like Bob Dole referring to himself in the third person all the time…] Someday I'd like to move to some warm country and just kick back…

But anyway, let's talk about Psycho le Cemu! For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Psycho le Cemu, I'll give you a little background. Psycho le Cemu was formed in 1999, and in 2002 they signed with major recording label “Nippon Crown”. With a creative band image, and unique original costumes (they spent on average USD $100,000 for each set of costumes!), Psycho le Cemu drew major attention from the media as the first newcomer to the Visual Kei scene in a while which had the potential to really make it big.

Psycho le Cemu's music featured a wide range of variations from catchy pop-rock to hard rock, and they were always coming up with something new to keep fans from getting bored. They even toured outside of Japan and gave several performances abroad. But then in 2006, Psycho le Cemu went into hiatus, and haven't performed since. The members went on to form other bands separately, such as Dacco and Mix Speaker's, Inc.

But the story doesn't end here! The year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of Psycho le Cemu's formation, and as such, Psycho le Cemu has decided to come out of hiatus, for a limited time, and perform again! I'm so happy I don't even know how to describe how happy I am.

They will of course be doing a number of concert performances, and I hope they'll perform abroad so you guys can go see them, too. I'll talk to them about it the next time I see them.

Well, it's a little cold in here, so I think I'll go get myself some hot coffee.
I guess that does it for today, see you in the next blog entry!

Hey everybody! This is Kame-Sen'nin, I’m the producer here at Interceptor Inc., the company which operates J-Rock TV. I’m Japanese, by the way.

So anyway, we’ve decided to start a blog! We had tried to add a ‘News’ section to the site a little while back, but when we’re talking about “official” news, the artists’ agencies want us to run anything that’s going to be published by them first, and sometimes they want things edited, and then we re-submit it to them for approval, and you get the idea--by the time we get permission to publish something, the “news” isn’t news anymore!

Well that didn’t go so well, but we got to thinking, since we’re located right here in Tokyo and are interacting with lots of Visual Kei and J-Rock artists all the time, maybe we could just share with you stories and interesting info from our day-to-day encounters with the artists. And that’s how we came upon the idea of a blog.

When we don’t have any interesting info or stories directly relating to artists to bring you, we’ll try to bring you other news and info from Japan which we think you may be interested in, but for the most part we’ll try to keep the blog entries related to J-Rock artists. So we hope you’ll check out the blog from time to time, and maybe learn a few new things you never knew before about your favorite artists!

In any case, since this is our very first blog entry, let’s get to know each other a bit! We’re a Tokyo-based company called Interceptor Inc., and while J-Rock TV is one of our projects, first and foremost we are a video production company, and we make music videos, etc. for J-Rock artists. We’ve made videos for too many artists to list here, but just to name a couple, Sadie and Vidoll are artists we’ve made a lot of videos for. Actually, all of Sadie’s music videos were made by us (with the exception of “Crimson Tear”).

So that’s what we do for a living, and that allows us to enjoy working with and to get to know a lot of J-Rock artists. But we realized that there are many J-Rock fans around the world who don’t have such easy access to the Visual Kei scene here in Japan, so we created J-Rock TV in an attempt to bring the Visual Kei scene to J-Rock fans around the world, and we hope that this blog brings us one step closer to achieving that goal.

And before we wrap up this blog entry, let me introduce you to some of the people here at J-Rock TV. As I mentioned before, I’m Kame-Sen’nin, and I’m the producer here at Interceptor Inc. I’m Japanese and I can hardly speak any English at all, but with some hand gestures and the little bit of English I do know, I can sort of scrape by in a simple English conversation.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “If you can’t speak English, how can you write this blog entry, let alone run this whole site in English??” That’s where our trusty J-Rock TV webmaster comes in--he’s American, so he does all the translation for J-Rock TV. I call him P-chan, so you can all go ahead and call him P-chan, too. I should probably mention that this blog entry itself was translated by P-chan. P-chan is fluent in English and Japanese, which I think is pretty cool.

Recently we’ve been busy working on some new features and new content for the site, which is part of the reason we haven’t been able to post any new videos recently (sorry guys!), but we’ve got some seriously cool stuff in store for you, so be sure to keep checking in so you don’t miss out!

In fact, what we’d really like to do is LITERALLY bring the Visual Kei scene to you by bringing J-Rock artists to YOU and holding J-Rock TV concert events in different countries around the world with some of your favorite J-Rock artists! We’re already working on this, so keep an eye out for more info in the near future!

Well, that about wraps it up. Stay tuned for the next blog entry soon!
Later guys!