O-Zone is a Moldovan-Romanian Eurodance trio that was active from 1998 to 2005 and consisted of Dan Balan, Radu Sîrbu and Arsenie Todiraș. The group gained global popularity with their song "Dragostea Din Tei" and their subsequent album DiscO-Zone. The group re-united in 2017 for 2 concerts in Chișinău and Bucharest.
Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance music group, formed in New York City. The group's best-known single is "Groove Is in the Heart", which was released from their 1990 debut album, World Clique, and was a Top 10 hit in multiple countries. In December 2016, Billboard ranked them as the 55th most successful dance artists of all-time.
"Sometime Samurai" is a song written and performed by Japanese music producer Towa Tei and Australian singer Kylie Minogue for Tei's album Flash (2005). It was originally recorded as a demo alongside "GBI " in 1996, but remained unreleased for eight years until Minogue had the opportunity to re-record her vocals in 2003. Before its inclusion on Flash, the song has been mentioned on Minogue's book Kylie: La La La. The song, written about Minogue's then boyfriend, photographer Stéphane Sednaoui.
"GBI " is a 1998 song by Japanese American music producer Towa Tei, featuring vocals from Australian singer Kylie Minogue, Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono, and co-written by Tei and Minogue. It is the lead single from Tei's second studio album, Sound Museum (1997), released by Arthrob in the United Kingdom. The song is a "minimalist" house-techno track with lyrics portrayed Minogue as a typeface called "German Bold Italic," with her vocals performed in a tongue-in-cheek style.
"Find a Way" is a song by A Tribe Called Quest, the first single from their fifth album The Love Movement. The New York Times' Ben Ratliff wrote that "Find a Way" "innocently wonders about the point at which friendship spills over into sex."
Future Listening! is the debut studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on October 21, 1994. It is Tei's first release after his departure from Deee-Lite.
Sound Museum is the second studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on May 25, 1997. Collaborators on the album include Kylie Minogue, Biz Markie, and Bebel Gilberto.
Sweet Robots Against the Machine is the eponymous debut album by Sweet Robots Against the Machine, pseudonym for Towa Tei, released on February 10, 1997. It includes a cover version of Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots".
Last Century Modern is the third studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on July 28, 1999. It peaked at number 20 on the Oricon Albums Chart.
Flash is a 2005 studio album by Towa Tei. It peaked at number 26 on the Oricon Albums Chart. It includes the track "Sometime Samurai" featuring Kylie Minogue.
South Korea-based girl group Girls' Generation have released nine studio albums, two live albums, four extended plays (EPs), and twenty-eight singles. As of November 2012, Girls' Generation has sold over 4.4 million albums and 30 million digital singles. The group has sold over 1.74 million albums in South Korea as of May 2016, and 3.48 million records, including 944,805 physical singles and 1,899,579 albums in Japan as of January 2017.
Let Me Know is a song by Japanese electronic musician Towa Tei, featuring singer Chara on vocals. It was released as the fourth single from his album Last Century Modern on June 23, 1999, a month before the album's release. It debuted at #34 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted for four weeks. It did substantially better on the J-Wave airplay charts, charting in the top 30 for eight weeks.
Big Fun is a 2009 studio album by Towa Tei. It peaked at number 25 on the Oricon Albums Chart.
Towa no Quon, is a 2011 Japanese animated supernatural film series consisting of six films and directed by Umanosuke Iida. The first film in the series was released in theaters on June 18, 2011 and the last on November 26, 2011. The anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.
Mademoiselle Yulia is a Japanese DJ and musician, associated with Tokyo electro scene. She debuted in 2008 as a DJ, and in 2011 as a singer, with her debut album Mademoworld.
Lucky is a 2013 studio album by Towa Tei. It peaked at number 36 on the Oricon Albums Chart. The cover art was painted by Yayoi Kusama.
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.
METAFIVE is a Japanese supergroup. Originally the band performed live backing Yukihiro Takahashi on his 2014 concert tour as Yukihiro Takahashi & METAFIVE. In that same year, they released the single Split Spirit. Later the band renamed itself as just METAFIVE, and released several recordings under this name including the full album META.The band played live at the 2014, 2015, and 2016 World Happiness Festivals, with British drummer Steve Jansen performing with the band in 2016.
