Future Listening!

Infobox Album |
Name = Future Listening!
Type = Album
Artist = Towa Tei


Released = 1995
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Shibuya-kei Electronica
Length =
Label = Elektra Records
Producer = Towa Tei
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7kqag4gntv6z link]
Last album = —
This album = "Future Listening!"
(1995)
Next album = "Sound Museum"
(1998)

"Future Listening!" is the debut solo album from Japanese electronic musician Towa Tei. It was Tei's first release after his departure from dance music act Deee-Lite.

The album incorporates an array of musical styles, including electronic, bossa nova, house, jazz and pop. Produced by Tei, "Future Listening!" includes collaborations with artists such as Joi Cardwell, Bebel Gilberto, MC Kinky, Hiroshi Takano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Toshihiko Mori, Satoshi Tomiie, Yuichi Oki of Tokyo Sky Paradise Orchestra and Pizzicato Five vocalist Maki Nomiya.

Both "Luv Connection" (featuring Cardwell on vocals) and "Technova" (remixed by Josh Wink) were top-thirty hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1995.

The Electric Sitar part on "Son of Bambi" is an interpolation of Richie Havens' song "Something Else Again", replayed by Hiroshi Takano.

Track listing

# "I Want to Relax, Please!" (Tei)
# "Technova (La em Copacabana)" (Gilberto, Tei)
# "Batucada" (Fujii, Gilberto, Tei, Valle)
# "Luv Connection" (Cardwell, Tei)
# "Meditation!" (Diggs, Tei)
# "Raga Musgo" (Tei)
# "Son of Bambi (Walk Tuff)" (Geary, Mori, Tei)
# "La Douce Vie (Amai Seikatsu)" (Konishi, Nokko, Tei)
# "Obrigado" (Lindsay, Tei)
# "Dubnova (Part 1 & 2)" (Gilberto, Tei)

Later Samples

*"Technova (La em Copacabana)"
**"Find a Way" by A Tribe Called Quest from the album "The Love Movement"