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Towa Tei

Tei Towa 2007
Background information
Born September 7, 1964 (1964-09-07) (age 44)
Tokyo, Japan
Genre(s) Shibuya-kei
Electronica
Dance
House
Occupation(s) Music producer
Disc jockey
Instrument(s) Keyboards
Label(s) Elektra Records
Associated acts Deee-Lite
Website http://www.towatei.com/
Towa Tei (テイトウワ, Tei Tōwa?, 鄭東和 정동화 Chung Dong-hwa) is a Japanese-born DJ of Korean descent. He moved to New York City in the late 1980s to be an art student, but soon dropped out as he became involved in the New York City club scene. He first earned notice for his remix work on tracks from the Jungle Brothers' 1989 LP Done by the Forces of Nature.
In 1990, he shot to fame as a member of the downtown New York club trio Deee-Lite. The group scored an international hit with "Groove Is In the Heart."
In 1991, Towa Tei and Super DJ Dmitri collaborated with Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto on the song "Rap the World."
After two albums, 1990's World Clique and 1992's Infinity Within, Towa Tei left Deee-Lite to begin working on solo projects; his debut album, Future Listening! a montage of bossa nova, jazz, and electronic dance music, appeared in 1995. His second album was 1998's Sound Museum. On it, he collaborated with Kylie Minogue on the track "GBI: German Bold Italic," which reached number 20 in Japan and number 63 in the UK. Bebel Gilberto also did vocals for the album. This was followed by the album Last Century Modern in 1999.
In 2005, Towa Tei released a new album titleded Flash and a new single with Minogue, "Sometime Samurai", which reached number six in Japan.

Discography

Studio albums
1995 Future Listening!
1998 Sound Museum
1999 Last Century Modern
2002 Sweet Robots Against the Machine
2005 Flash

DJ-mix albums
2004 Motivation-Songs for Make Up
2004 Motivation-Driving Sweets
2005 Motivation3
2005 Motivation4 -Dusty Dance Halls
2007 Motivation Five

Singles and EPs
1995 Technova
1995 Luv Connection
1998 GBI: German Bold Italic
1998 Butterfly
1999 Let Me Know
2000 Mars
2002 Funkin' For Jamaica
2005 Sometime Samurai

Remix albums
1994 Future Recall!
1995 Future Recall 2
1997 Stupid Fresh
2000 Lost Control Mix
2000 Lost Control Mix 2
2003 Re: Towa Tei Sweet Robots Against the Machine
2006 Flasher

Compilation albums
2002 Towa Tei / Best
2003 Best Korea (Korea only)

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