Towa Tei - End of a Love Affair
Some of you may know Towa Tei from his days with the groovadelic Deee-Lite. After two albums with them, he went out on his own and started producing his own in 1995…thankfully. Deee-Lite was more about Miss Lady Kier than anything else, pushing Mr Tei into the background. Being on his own gave him the chance to really make a name for himself with his own style of elevator-groove. He tends to lean more on the housier-smoother side of life - but this album, ‘Sweet Robots Against The Machine’, takes on more of a broken-up, synth-driven approach. He makes good use of the slight silences between the notes - making these gaps part of the whole tripped up, ethincally tinted, electradelic and playful journey into the creative mind of a Japanese hipster. He has been busy making remixes for the likes of Bjork, A Tribe Called Quest, Shonen-Knife and M-FLO. So drop the top, pour a Hoody-Toddy, and groove.
And on the second floor - Batik
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October 29th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
towa tei was THE star of Deeelite to me back then. all those funky-ass noises being made in ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ weren’t just Bootsy and Lady Miss Kier. Hell, even Q-Tip was on that track.
the horn break in the middle of that classic was absolutely funky as hell.
Towa’s Sound Museum disc is great as well. A little wobbly here and there, but massively rewarding, esp for the last track, the 10+minutes of ‘Everything We Do is Music’…which my wife and I played to close our wedding reception…
anyone wondering…if i had a chance to post…I’d post ‘B.M.T” by Towa Tei with Biz Markie and Mos Def…fly ass shit.
thanks 4 tha post…
October 30th, 2004 at 11:46 am
thanks for the post. i was wondering when his next effort was going to come out. i have loved every album he has done, both solo and with deee-lite. his last album was one of my favorite of all times. loved butterfly. so yeah, once this album gets released in the states, im all over it.
October 30th, 2004 at 10:33 pm
Future Listening! is my personal fave. I still bust it out from time-to-time in my DJ sets: “Batucada,” “Technova” and, yes, “Love Connection”!
November 7th, 2004 at 9:44 pm
gracias for your mp3 blog. i now use mp3 blogs to follow music, and without your post, i wouldn’t have known about the new towa tei solo stuff. excellent! i was a huge dee-lite fan. (well, their first cd only. their second sucked.)