Towa Tei

Japanese-born DJ Towa Tei 1st gained notice for his creation focus on the Jungle Brothers’ 1989 LP Done by the Causes of Nature; the next 12 months he shot to popularity as an associate from the downtown NY golf club trio Deee-Lite, rating an international strike with the traditional “Groove Is usually in the Heart.” After two LP’s, 1990’s Globe Clique and 1992’s Infinity Within, Towa Tei remaining the group to begin with working on single tasks; his debut LP Future Hearing!, a montage of bossa nova, jazz and digital dance music, made an appearance in 1995. His second recording for Elektra, 1998’s Sound Museum, was accompanied by Last Century Contemporary in 1999.