This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If you remember Groove Is In The Heart, you might remember Towa Tei, the Japanese-American DJ from ’80s one-hit wonders Deee-Lite.
His bandmates caught the train to Hasbeenville a long time ago, but Towa is still as current as a computer virus. And as catchy. Last Century Modern, his seventh solo album in five years (!), crackles and glistens with the same sugar-coated, neon-swizzle-stick exuberance of Stereolab, Cibo Matto and Fantastic Plastic Machine. Slicing and dicing samples and beats like a musical Iron Chef, Towa crafts kitschy-cool constructs for that post-millennial cocktail party in your space-age bachelor pad — and proves that his groove is still in the right place.
