January Events

From the Events Calendar:

This weekend the calendar offers up a couple of very different events. On Saturday, January 19th is the 21st annual Busan Polar Bear Swim at Haeundae Beach.

For those who are into the DJ scene there's a fantastic line-up of DJs spinning at the Grand Hotel in Haeundae. The headliner is Towa Tei.

Towa Tei was born in Tokyo, He moved to New York City in 1987 and he became involved in the New York City club scene. He first earned notice for his production work on the Jungle Brothers' 1989 LP Done by the Forces of Nature.

In 1990, he shot to fame as a member of the downtown New York club trio Deee-Lite. The group scored an international hit with 'Groove Is In the Heart'.

In 1991, Towa Tei and Super DJ Dmitri collaborated with Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto on the song 'Rap the World'.

After two albums, 1990's World Clique and 1992's Infinity Within, Towa Tei left Deee-Lite to begin working on solo projects; his debut album 'Future Listening!', appeared in 1995. His second album for Elektra Records was 1998's Sound Museum. On it, he collaborated with Kylie Minogue for the track 'GBI: German Bold Italic', which reached number 20 in Japan and number 63 in the UK. Bebel Gilberto also did vocals for the album. This was followed by album Last Century Modern in 1999.

He builded Sibuya Techno mark, and he is playing unique music with not just Electronic but also bossa nova, jazz, soul.

Full Line Up
Towa Tei, DJ Sangmin a.k.a EON, DJ Jal, DJ Run, DJ K24, DJ Miego, DJ Moriarty