Towa Tei -- Technova

 

It was exactly a couple of months ago that I posted about Towa Tei's "GBI (German Bold Italic)" from 1997 and its fairly outré music video featuring Kylie Minogue. I would say that Tei's earlier creation "Technova" from his October 1994 debut album "Future Listening!" also has its own bizarre elements in the music video as well including a cute self-parody of how Tei has enjoyed putting up that thinking pose.

Generally though, the song itself is pretty chill although assuming that "Technova" is a Tei-created portmanteau of techno and bossa nova, I'd have to disagree with him slightly since I think it's more dance club-friendly Shibuya-kei mixed with the bossa nova. It's just that Shibunova isn't quite as neat and concise-sounding. In any case, "Technova" was released as a single as well later in March 1995 since it was also used in a commercial for the apparel company Onward. Vocal contribution to "Technova" was provided by Bebel Gilberto, the Brazilian pop singer who is also the daughter of the pioneer of bossa nova João Gilberto.

Below is one of several remixes of the song.