Sound Museum

Sound Museum is the second studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on May 25, 1997 by East West Records. Collaborators on the album include Kylie Minogue, Biz Markie, and Bebel Gilberto.[8]

Sound Museum
Studio album by Towa Tei
Released	May 25, 1997
Studio	VU Free, Planet Kingdom, and Heart Beat (Tokyo) Chung King, Right Track, and Sound on Sound (New York)
Genre	Shibuya-kei[1]
Length	49:41
Label	East West
Producer	Towa Tei
Towa Tei chronology
Future Listening! (1994) Sound Museum (1997) Last Century Modern (1999)
Singles from Sound Museum
"Happy" Released: June 25, 1997[2] "GBI (German Bold Italic)" Released: September 10, 1997[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[5]
Pitchfork	7.1/10[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]

Sound Museum peaked at number 17 on the Oricon Albums Chart.[9] By July 1997, it had sold over 100,000 copies.[10]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"The Sound Museum"		Towa Tei	Tei Toshihiko Mori^[a] Ayumi Obinata^[a]	3:28
2.	"Time After Time" (featuring Viv and Amel Larrieux)	Viv	Tei	Tei Fernando Aponte^[a] Obinata^[a] Mori^[a]	5:13
3.	"Happy" (featuring Viv and Bahamadia)	Viv Bahamadia	Tei	Tei Mori^[a] Obinata^[a]	5:07
4.	"BMT" (featuring Biz Markie and Mos Def)	Biz Markie Mos Def	Tei	Tei	3:28
5.	"Higher" (featuring Yavahn and Akiko Yano)	Yavahn	Tei	Tei	4:13
6.	"Corridor"			Tei Mori^[a]	2:35
7.	"GBI (German Bold Italic)" (featuring Kylie Minogue and Haruomi Hosono)	Tei Minogue	Tei	Tei	6:58
8.	"Tamilano"	Tei	Tei	Tei François Kevorkian^[a]	4:17
9.	"Private Eyes" (featuring Bebel Gilberto)	Daryl Hall Warren Pash Sara Allen Janna Allen	Hall Pash S. Allen J. Allen	Tei	3:51
10.	"Everything We Do Is Music"	Tei	Tei	Tei	10:31
Total length:					49:41

Notes

• ^{^a} signifies an additional producer

Sample credits[11]

• "Corridor" contains samples from "Hello Baby" and "Another Sound Museum" by Sweet Robots Against the Machine.

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[9]	17

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Ref.
Japan	May 25, 1997	East West	[12][13]
Germany	February 24, 1998	Warner	[14]
United States		Elektra	[8]

References

1. Daley, David (August 1998). "Japan's Shibuya-Kei Scene Invades America". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 60. pp. 16–17. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
2. "ハッピー | TOWA TEI" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
3. "Intro | TOWA TEI" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
4. Bush, John. "Sound Museum – Towa Tei". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
5. Hermes, Will (February 20, 1998). "Sound Museum". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
6. Wisdom, James P. "Towa Tei: Sound Museum". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on February 28, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2007.
7. Sheffield, Rob (March 5, 1998). "Towa Tei: Sound Museum". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 19, 2003. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
8. Flick, Larry (January 31, 1998). "3 Dancefloor Vets Are Back With Top-Notch Tunes". Billboard. Vol. 110 no. 5. pp. 44–45. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
9. "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service] (in Japanese). Oricon. TOWA TEI. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
10. McClure, Steve (July 19, 1997). "Label Loyalty Lost As 3 Japanese Acts Jump Ship". Billboard. Vol. 109 no. 29. p. 56. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
11. Sound Museum (liner notes). Towa Tei. East West Records. 1997. AMCY-2258~9.CS1 maint: others (link)
12. "サウンド・ミュージアム | TOWA TEI" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
13. "Sound Museum : TOWA TEI" (in Japanese). HMV Japan. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
14. "Sound Museum" (in German). Germany: Amazon. Retrieved August 3, 2015.

External links

• Sound Museum at Discogs (list of releases)