The music I did 20 years ago sounds a little dated now, but I don't think it's bad.' I'm just not setting out to make something that seems really "now": in three, four, five years' time, people aren't going to look at it and feel it's dated… There's a lot of music that's made for marketing purposes, or to do well in the charts, and after one or two years it just sounds embarrassing. 'I don't think the music I'm making is old-fashioned. 'I don't think I'm past it,' he says at one point. He looks every bit his 46 years, and speaks with the frankness of someone who's come to accept his place in the world. While his promo photos might suggest some kind of latex-skinned automaton, in the flesh Tei is a lot more personable (and, indeed, person-like). The former New York resident doesn't have much opportunity to use English these days, emailing aside, and we speak for the most part in Japanese. 'Sorry,' he says as he returns to the conversation. label, and he's got an appearance booked at Dommune in the evening. It's only a day since Tei's latest album, Sunny, hit stores on his own Hug Inc. He sits opposite his manager at a table piled with paper and laptops, and at one point pauses our interview to check something on the iTunes Store and make a quick phonecall. Towa Tei seems to have brought his whole office with him when we meet in an otherwise deserted cafe in Roppongi.
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