Towa Tei

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Towa Tei (2007)

Towa Tei ( Japanese テ イ ・ ト ウ ワ , Tei Towa for Sinocorean 鄭東 和 , Chung Dong-hwa ; * on September 7, 1964 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese DJ .

Career

Tei first became known to a wider public in 1989 with the production of the album Done by the Forces of Nature by the New York hip-hop trio Jungle Brothers .

The following year he became an international star as a member of the New York underground trio Deee-Lite . The debut single Groove Is in the Heart conquered the charts worldwide and is now considered a classic. After two albums, Towa Tei left the band and began working on solo projects.

His debut album Future Listening! was released in 1995 and is a mixture of electronic dance music with bossa nova and jazz elements . It ranks 59th on Rolling Stone Japan's "100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time" . Three more albums followed in 1998, 1999 and 2004.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
GBI: German Bold Italic (with Kylie Minogue )
  UK 63 10/31/1998 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1994: Future Recall!
  • 1995: Future Recall 2
  • 1995: Future Listening!
  • 1997: Stupid Fresh
  • 1998: Sound Museum
  • 1999: Sweet Robots Against the Machine
  • 1999: Last Century Modern
  • 2000: Lost Control Mix
  • 2000: Lost Control Mix 2
  • 2002: Towa Tei / Best
  • 2003: Best Korea
  • 2004: Motivation Songs for Make Up
  • 2004: Motivation-Driving Sweets
  • 2005: Motivation3
  • 2005: Motivation4 -Dusty Dance Halls
  • 2005: Flash
  • 2007: Motivation Five
  • 2009: Big Fun

Singles

  • 1995: Technova
  • 1995: Luv Connection
  • 1998: Butterfly
  • 1998: GBI: German Bold Italic
  • 1999: Let Me Know
  • 2000: Mars
  • 2002: Funkin 'For Jamaica

Web links

Commons : Towa Tei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=116376&show=50&start=50
  2. ↑ Chart sources: UK
personal data
SURNAME Tei, Towa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES テ イ ・ ト ウ ワ (Japanese); Chung Dong-hwa (Korean); 鄭東 和 (Sinocorean)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese DJ
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture