Towa Tei discography
The solo discography of Japanese musician Towa Tei and his side project Sweet Robots Against the Machine includes 11 studio albums, two compilation albums, two soundtracks, three extended plays and nine singles. Towa Tei came to fame in 1990 as a member of the American house group Deee-Lite in 1990, and released his debut solo album Future Listening! in 1994.
Towa Tei discography | |
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Towa Tei in 2010 | |
Studio albums | 11 |
EPs | 3 |
Singles | 26 |
Soundtrack albums | 2 |
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1][upper-alpha 1] |
JPN Billboard [upper-alpha 2][upper-alpha 3] | ||||||||||
Future Listening! |
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50 | — | ||||||||
Sweet Robots Against the Machine |
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55 | — | ||||||||
Sound Museum |
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17 | — | ||||||||
Last Century Modern |
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20 | — | ||||||||
Towa Tei |
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55 | — | ||||||||
Flash |
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55 | — | ||||||||
Big Fun |
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25 | —[upper-alpha 4] | ||||||||
Sunny |
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23 | —[upper-alpha 5] | ||||||||
Lucky |
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36 | —[upper-alpha 6] | ||||||||
Cute |
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52 | 74 | ||||||||
Emo |
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34 | 53 | ||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart, or were released before the creation of a chart. |
Extended plays
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1][upper-alpha 1] |
JPN Billboard | ||||||||||
Butterfly |
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88 | — | ||||||||
Alignment EP |
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— | — | ||||||||
Mach 2012 |
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143 | —[upper-alpha 7] | ||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart, were ineligible to chart, or were released before the creation of a chart. |
Compilation albums
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1][upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
The Best of Towa Tei Works |
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— | |||||||||
Towa Tei Best |
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40 | |||||||||
Best Korea |
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— | |||||||||
94–14 Remix |
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158 | |||||||||
94–14 |
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156 | |||||||||
94–14 Covers |
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165 | |||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart. |
DJ mix compilation albums
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1][upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
Motivation Songs for Make-Up |
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222 | |||||||||
Motivation Driving Sweets |
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148 | |||||||||
Motivation 3 |
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148 | |||||||||
Motivation 4 Dusty Dance Hall |
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— | |||||||||
Motivation Five |
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117 | |||||||||
Motivation 6 Adult Oriented Click Nonstop-Mix by Moodman |
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— | |||||||||
Motivation 7 |
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189 | |||||||||
Motivation H |
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168 | |||||||||
The Beat Goes On |
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260 | |||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart. |
Remix albums
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1][upper-alpha 1] | |||||||||||
Future Recall! |
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— | |||||||||
Future Recall 2 |
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— | |||||||||
Stupid Fresh |
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— | |||||||||
Lost Control Mix |
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— | |||||||||
Lost Control Mix Disc 2 |
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— | |||||||||
Re:Towa Tei |
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115 | |||||||||
Flasher |
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159 | |||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart. |
Soundtracks
Title | Album details |
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Visionary Soundtrack by Towa Tei |
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Dai Nipponjin Original Soundtrack |
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Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||
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JPN Oricon [1] |
JPN Billboard [upper-alpha 8] |
AUS [18] |
KOR Overseas [upper-alpha 9] |
UK [21] |
US Dance [22] | ||||||
"Technova" (featuring Bebel Gilberto) |
1995 | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | Future Listening! | |||
"Luv Connection"[23] (featuring Joi Cardwell, Vivien Sessoms) |
— | — | — | — | 178 | 30 | |||||
"Happy" (featuring Vivian Sessoms and Bahamadia) |
1997 | 94 | — | — | — | — | 3 | Sound Museum | |||
"GBI (German Bold Italic)" (featuring Kylie Minogue and Haruomi Hosono) |
— | — | 50 | — | 63 | — | |||||
"A Ring" (featuring Pascale Borel) |
1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last Century Modern | |||
"Let Me Know" (featuring Chara)) |
34 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Funkin' for Jamaica"[24] (featuring Joanne, Les Nubians, Wisdom Life & Tom Browne) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Last Century Modern"[24] (featuring UA) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Mars" (火星, Kasei) (featuring Ikuko Harada) |
2000 | 61 | — | — | — | — | — | Towa Tei Best | |||
"Funkin' for Jamaica" (re-release)[25] (featuring Joanne, Les Nubians, Wisdom Life & Tom Browne) |
2001 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Last Century Modern | |||
"Koi no Upload" (恋のアップロード, "Love Upload")[26] | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
"A.O.R."[27] (featuring Lina Ohta) |
2008 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Big Fun | |||
"Mind Wall"[28] (featuring Miho Hatori) |
— | 21 | — | 48 | — | — | |||||
"Taste of You"[29] (featuring Taprikk Sweezee) |
2009 | — | —[upper-alpha 10] | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Marvelous"[31][32] (with Yurico) |
2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sunny | |||
"The Burning Plain"[33] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Kiko Mizuhara) |
2011 | — | —[upper-alpha 11] | — | 28 | — | — | ||||
"Licht"[35] | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lucky | |||
"Radio"[36] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Tina Tamashiro) |
— | 78 | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Apple"[37] (with Ringo Sheena) |
76[upper-alpha 12] | 60 | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Hold Me Tighter in the Rain"[38] (with Vivien Sessoms) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 94–14 Covers | ||||
"18"[39] (with Shinichi Osawa) |
2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
"Chaise Longue"[40] | — | — | — | — | — | — | Cute | ||||
"Heaven"[41] (with Junko Wada) |
2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Cul de Sac"[42] (with Leo Imai) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Sound of Music"[43] (with UA) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Brand New Emo"[44] (Towa Tei as Metafive with Mizuhara Sisters) |
2017 | 186 | — | — | — | — | — | Emo | |||
"—" denotes items which did not chart, were released before the creation of the Billboard Japan Hot 100, or were not released in this region. |
Promotional singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||
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US Dance [22] | |||||||||||
"Batucada"[45] (featuring Bebel Gilberto) |
1996 | — | Future Listening! | ||||||||
"Forget Me Nots"[46] (Sweet Robots Against the Machine featuring Viviam Sessions & Joi Cardwell) |
1997 | — | Sweet Robots Against the Machine | ||||||||
"Private Eyes"[47] (featuring Bebel Gilberto) |
— | Sound Museum | |||||||||
"Butterfly"[48] (featuring Ayumi Tanabe and Vivian Sessoms) |
1998 | — | Butterfly / Last Century Modern | ||||||||
"Congratulations!"[49] (featuring Cory Daye) |
1999 | 30 | Last Century Modern | ||||||||
"Free"[50] (Sweet Robots Against the Machine with Rozz, Vivian Sessoms & Juiceman) |
2002 | — | Towa Tei | ||||||||
"Latte Macaron"[51] | — | ||||||||||
"Different Nu Nu"[52] | 2004 | — | Flash | ||||||||
"Sometime Samurai"[53] (featuring Kylie Minogue) |
2005 | — | |||||||||
"Melody"[54] (featuring Byron Stingily) |
— | ||||||||||
"Milky Way"[55] (featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukalicious) |
— | ||||||||||
"My Sharona"[55] (featuring Buffalo Daughter, Tycoon Tosh) |
— | ||||||||||
"N705i"[upper-alpha 13] | 2008 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||
"Pac Is Back!"[upper-alpha 14] | 2010 | — | |||||||||
"Upload"[58] (with Bakubaku Dokin) |
2011 | — | Mach 2012 | ||||||||
"Milky Way"[59] | 2012 | — | |||||||||
"Wordy"[59] (with Bakubaku Dokin) |
— | ||||||||||
"Luv Pandemic"[60] (with Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi) |
2015 | — | Cute | ||||||||
"—" denotes items which did not chart or were not released in this region. |
Remixes
- Sean Callery - 24 Theme (Towa Tei 24 Hours Remix)
- Björk - Hyperballad (Towa Tei Remix)
- Benjamin Biolay - Les Cerfs Volants (Towa Tei Remix)
- En Vogue - Whatever (Towa Tei Remix)
Notes
- Sources for additional chart positions are as follows: Future Listening!,[2] Sweet Robots Against the Machine,[2] "Happy",[2] Sound Museum,[3] Butterfly,[2] "Let Me Know",[2] Last Century Modern,[3] "Kasei",[2] Towa Tei Best,[2] Motivation Songs for Make-Up,[2] Motivation Driving Sweets,[2] Towa Tei,[2] Re: Towa Tei,[2] Flash,[3]
- The Hot Albums chart was established in 2015.
- Sources for chart positions are as follows: Cute,[4] Emo.[5]
- The album charted at number 32 on the Top Albums Sales chart, prior to the establishment of the Hot Albums Chart in 2015.[6]
- The album charted at number 20 on the Top Albums Sales chart,[7] and number one on the Top Independent Albums and Singles chart,[8], prior to the establishment of the Hot Albums Chart in 2015.
- The album charted at number 28 on the Top Albums Sales chart, prior to the establishment of the Hot Albums Chart in 2015.[9]
- The album charted at number 92 on the Top Albums Sales chart,[12] and number 23 on the Top Independent Albums and Singles chart,[13], prior to the establishment of the Hot Albums Chart in 2015.
- Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Mind Wall",[15] "Radio",[16] "Apple".[17]
- Week references for Gaon: "The Burning Plain",[19] "Mind Wall"[20]
- "Taste of You" charted at number 98 on Adult Contemporary Airplay chart.[30]
- "The Burning Plain" charted at number 56 on Adult Contemporary Airplay chart.[34]
- 2015 release.
- Commercial jingle for the NTT DoCoMo phone of the same name, and originally released to iTunes.[56] In 2008, the song was re-arranged and re-titled "A.O.R."
- Promotional song to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the game Pac-Man.[57]
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- "テイ・トウワが語る、トレンドを超えた音楽の作り方「アンテナが錆びてても必要な電波は入ってくる」" (in Japanese). Real Sound. July 1, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
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