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1177: 32: 305:, was meant for release on July 28, 2006. According to Tomita, the album was worked on every day for about half a year, but had to be postponed indefinitely due to a two-month hospital stay amidst other circumstances. 375:, a "Biofeedback System", and a "Mind Disintegrator & Space Light Probe Phaser". As of 2013, he continues to perform live at music venues with Suzi Kim, Yumiko Ohno, and various others. 805:
Presented as a two-CD set in a clear plastic case with two booklets. The second CD (entitled Heart Beat) is made of cardboard and has an accompanying booklet.
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to learn how to play them. He later performed with Parks onstage during the late 1980s, playing steel pan. He was a member of
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Tomita is also known for his idiosyncratic stage performances, which have included demonstrations of an antique
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player based in Tokyo. In Japan during the 1980s and 1990s, he pioneered various music genres, including
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Packaged with three CDs, one CD-ROM, and a 32-page booklet mostly in English with some Japanese.
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Packaged with 110+ page book, a sticker for never-to-be-released second Doopees album (
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Besides Doopees, he has also worked with a variety of music artists, including
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Included collaborations with Grandmaster Flash, Ossie Colon, and others.
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Recorded at the Porco Theater in Tokyo on April 12, 1993
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He was introduced to the sound of steelpan drums by a 1970s
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producer, and the president of the Audio Science Laboratory
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fame. He also mixed, arranged, and co-produced Seiko Ito's
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Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
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exotica with steel drums, electronics, and tributes to
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Index

Tomita, 2013
Tokyo, Japan
Exotica
electronic
hip hop
musique concrète
experimental
avant-garde
steel drums
For Life Records
Sony Records
CCRE
Japanese musician
steelpan
hip hop
dub
acid jazz
exotica
electronic music
Japanese hip hop
record label
Van Dyke Parks
Trinidad
Tobago
Water Melon Group
Toshio Nakanishi
Plastics
Japanese hip hop
musique concrète
Space age pop

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