Towa Tei's third album returns to the eclecticism of his first, with bossa nova lounge ("A Ring"), drum'n'bass soul ("Angel," "Butterfly"), Ryuichi Sakamoto-like ethnic forgery ("Stretch Building Bamboo"), and silly sampladelic house ("Congratulations!," which samples somebody saying "The finest turntable in the world" until the all the words become meaningless). Once again, Tei assembles an impressive roster of guest musicians and gleefully watches what happens when they meet. Japanese chanteuse UA, accordionist Coba, and the Balanescu Quartet open the album with the sophisticated title track. Elsewhere on the CD, Pascale Borel, Les Nubians, and Chara add vocals, and two thirds of YMO, Harry Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi turn up as well. The album is also surprisingly short, and the stronger for it. The American release adds remixes of "Butterfly" and "Let Me Know" by Cornelius and Mighty Bop, respectively. ~ Ted Mills, All Music Guide
Last Century Modern
09/21/1999 | Elektra / Wea
All Music Guide Review
Last Century Modern Track Listing
Credits of Last Century Modern
- Ayumi Obinata
- Arranger, Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming
- Towa Tei
- Programming, Main Performer, Editing, Art Direction, Keyboard Programming, MIDI, Mixing, Drum Programming, Liner Notes
- Joanne
- Vocals
- The Mighty Bop
- Arranger, Remixing, Programming
- Les Nubians
- Vocals
- Julian Wheatley
- Engineer
- UA
- Vocals
- Yasuaki Shimizu
- Sax (Soprano)
- Bob Brockmann
- Mixing
- Louis Philippe
- Vocals
- Tomoyuki Asakawa
- Harp
- Stuart Hawkes
- Mastering
- Tadashi Matsuda
- Engineer, Mixing
- Sam Nagashima
- Executive Producer
- Hiroshi Takano
- Guitar (Electric)
- Gene Perez
- Bass (Electric)
- Gemi Taylor
- Guitar (Electric)
- Kahimi Karie
- Translation
- Chara
- Vocals
- Akemi Nakano
- Make-Up, Hair Stylist
- Wizdom Life
- Rap
- Cutee B.
- Mixing Engineer
- Eri
- Model
- Hisa Ishioka
- Coordination
- Coba
- Accordion
- Pascale Borel
- Performer
- Ayumi Tanabe
- Performer
- Viv
- Performer
- Terry Burrus
- Piano, Fender Rhodes
- Cory Daye
- Vocals
- Balanescu Quartet
- Strings, String Arrangements
- Fernando Aponte
- Engineer
- Dave Darlington
- Engineer
- Haruomi Hosono
- Bass (Electric)
- Goh Hotoda
- Mixing
- Romero Lubambo
- Guitar (Acoustic)
- Tom Browne
- Trumpet
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