Some of you may know Towa Tei from his days with the groovadelic Deee-Lite. After two albums with them, he went out on his own and started producing his own in 1995...thankfully. Deee-Lite was more about Miss Lady Kier than anything else, pushing Mr Tei into the background. Being on his own gave him the chance to really make a name for himself with his own style of elevator-groove. He tends to lean more on the housier-smoother side of life - but this album, 'Sweet Robots Against The Machine', takes on more of a broken-up, synth-driven approach. He makes good use of the slight silences between the notes - making these gaps part of the whole tripped up, ethincally tinted, electradelic and playful journey into the creative mind of a Japanese hipster. He has been busy making remixes for the likes of Bjork, A Tribe Called Quest, Shonen-Knife and M-FLO. So drop the top, pour a Hoody-Toddy, and groove.