Towa Tei discography
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Studio albums11
EPs3
Soundtrack albums2
Singles26
| Towa Tei discography | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Towa Tei in 2010 | |
| Studio albums | 11 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Soundtrack albums | 2 |
| Singles | 26 |
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.
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1][A] |
JPN Billboard [B][C] | ||||||||||
| Future Listening! |
|
50 | — | ||||||||
| Sweet Robots Against the Machine |
|
55 | — | ||||||||
| Sound Museum |
|
17 | — | ||||||||
| Last Century Modern |
|
20 | — | ||||||||
| Towa Tei |
|
55 | — | ||||||||
| Flash |
|
55 | — | ||||||||
| Big Fun |
|
25 | —[D] | ||||||||
| Sunny |
|
23 | —[E] | ||||||||
| Lucky |
|
36 | —[F] | ||||||||
| Cute |
|
52 | 74 | ||||||||
| Emo |
|
34 | 53 | ||||||||
| LP |
|
44 | 56 | ||||||||
| Zoundtracks |
|
55 | 49 | ||||||||
| Touch |
|
52 | 60 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart, or were released before the creation of a chart. | |||||||||||
Extended plays
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1][A] |
JPN Billboard | ||||||||||
| Butterfly |
|
88 | — | ||||||||
| Alignment EP |
|
— | — | ||||||||
| Mach 2012 |
|
143 | —[G] | ||||||||
| "—" 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1][A] | |||||||||||
| The Best of Towa Tei Works |
|
— | |||||||||
| Towa Tei Best |
|
40 | |||||||||
| Best Korea |
|
— | |||||||||
| 94–14 Remix |
|
158 | |||||||||
| 94–14 |
|
156 | |||||||||
| 94–14 Covers |
|
165 | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
DJ mix compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1][A] | |||||||||||
| Motivation Songs for Make-Up |
|
— | |||||||||
| Motivation Driving Sweets |
|
148 | |||||||||
| Motivation 3 |
|
148 | |||||||||
| Motivation 4 Dusty Dance Hall |
|
— | |||||||||
| Motivation Five |
|
117 | |||||||||
| Motivation 6 Adult Oriented Click Nonstop-Mix by Moodman |
|
— | |||||||||
| Motivation 7 |
|
189 | |||||||||
| Motivation H |
|
168 | |||||||||
| The Beat Goes On |
|
— | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
Remix albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1][A] | |||||||||||
| Future Recall! |
|
— | |||||||||
| Future Recall 2 |
|
— | |||||||||
| Stupid Fresh |
|
— | |||||||||
| Lost Control Mix |
|
— | |||||||||
| Lost Control Mix Disc 2 |
|
— | |||||||||
| Re:Towa Tei |
|
115 | |||||||||
| Flasher |
|
159 | |||||||||
| "—" denotes items which did not chart. | |||||||||||
Soundtracks
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Visionary Soundtrack by Towa Tei |
|
| Dai Nipponjin Original Soundtrack |
|
| Super Crooks (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) |
|
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN Oricon [1] |
JPN Billboard [H] |
AUS [18] |
KOR Overseas [I] |
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 | — | —[J] | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Marvelous"[31][32] (with Yurico) |
2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sunny | |||
| "The Burning Plain"[33] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Kiko Mizuhara) |
2011 | — | —[K] | — | 28 | — | — | ||||
| "Licht"[35] | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lucky | |||
| "Radio"[36] (with Yukihiro Takahashi & Tina Tamashiro) |
— | 78 | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Apple"[37] (with Ringo Sheena) |
76[L] | 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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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"[M] | 2008 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||
| "Pac Is Back!"[N] | 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. | |||||||||||