#towa tei

[mieee3]

TOWER RECORDS ads 1999

Chara & Towa Tei

[fuchinobe]

Pizzicato Free Soul 2001 (1993, Triad, COJA-9154~5) Remix by Towa Tei.

[robotpussy]

POWER OF LOVE DEEE-LITE [x]

[morffyne]

[disease]

TOWA TEI / テイ・トウワ ⁉️

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Towa Tei w/Ayumi Tanabe & Vivien Sessoms - Butterfly ]

[mauricedelafalaise]

Deee-Lite, 1991

[spilladabalia]

Deee-Lite - Good Beat

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♌ August 15th: Deee-Liteful Diva, Lady Miss Kier.

[coldturkeysandwich]

Towa Tei & Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Vivian Sessoms - LUV CONNECTION (1994)

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Finally. “Metallic Rouge” can be streamed in different platforms. Four days ago when it was announced, the rights were forfeited outside of Japan and other territories.

First off, it is a collaboration among Yuma Yamaguchi, Taisei Iwasaki and Towa Tei. The soundtrack contains 42 songs, less than two hours of music spanning different genres with one specific theme and a curious choice of classical rendition of Claude Debussy’s famous “Claire de Lune” (Moonlight), which we have seen Rouge’s “brother” Gene (Jean) Junghardt was playing on the piano on episode 3. Debussy was inspired by Paul Verlaine’s poem with the same title and set forth to create this piece to accompany it.

All sing in a minor key / Of victorious love and the opportune life, / They do not seem to believe in their happiness / And their song mingles with the moonlight…

I wonder if Iwasaki thought about it.

The soundtrack opens with the lounge/jazzy “Falling Starlight and Moonlight I.” This piece has different interpretations that you just have to choose which one you like.

I prefer Viola’s (Celeina Ann, artist) when she sang this piece in a club that opened the first episode. It was so elegant and seductive at the same time.

Then it followed with one of the best fight songs imho, “Crimson Lightning,” which is the overall theme of the series.

One of my favourites is “Escobilla,” a flamenco-esque track that encourages you to do some dancing. The guitar opener is somewhat reminiscent of “Trigun 1998’s” “Never could have been worse.” Must’ve been the guitar pickings.

As the soundtrack is manned by three people it is interesting to note that one can differentiate the style of each sound. Somehow I can identify Yuma Yamaguchi’s. Not because I love “Undead Girl Murder Farce” and I listened to it almost every day last year making it my most streamed album, but it is the familiarity that he imbues on his composition and that is not bad at all. They give off a certain mood, very atmospheric. “Red Madness I” is a techno/industrial music that already landed on my jogging list.

Taisei Iwasaki often delves towards the aesthetic of orchestra, the jazzy, the piano pieces, which he also utilized on “Belle” for example.

While the pieces Towa Tei (of Deee-lite fame) contributed, who has established himself as one of the pioneers in electronica/house music, will leave you out of this world.

Towa posted that this has been the fastest track he’s ever composed.

I love listening to soundtracks when they don’t feel like soundtrack at all, like another entity away from the main material. “Metallic Rouge” is that.

[princesaimposible]

(listen here)

[disease]

LUV CONNECTION TOWA TEI ft. JOI CARDWELL [FUTURE LISTENING!, 1994]