"Sometime Samurai" is a dance

Dance music

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–pop

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 song written and performed by Japan

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ese musician Towa Tei

Towa Tei

is a DJ, artist and record producer in Yokahoma, Japan.Tōwa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite, from the U.S. label Elektra Records in 1990, and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart"...

 and Australia

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n pop singer Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

 for Tei's album

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 Flash (2005). The song was produced by Towa Tei and received a positive reception from music critic

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s. The song was released as the first promotional single

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 in the spring of 2005

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-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

 and became one of Tei's most successful songs in Japan

Japan

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 reaching the top ten on the Tokio Hot 100 radio chart.

"Sometime Samurai" was originally recorded as a demo alongside "GBI: German Bold Italic

GBI: German Bold Italic

"GBI: German Bold Italic" was a single from Towa Tei's 1998 album Sound Museum. The song is a collaboration with Australian singer Kylie Minogue...

" in 1996, but remained unreleased for eight years until Minogue had the opportunity to re-record her vocals in 2004. Before its inclusion on Flash the song remained a great mystery to many fans, after having heard of the song in the book La La La written by Minogue and William Baker

William Baker (fashion designer)

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. The song, written about Minogue's then boyfriend, photographer Stéphane Sednaoui

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, was released in Japan as a radio promotional single to promote the release of Flash. A music video

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 was also made for the song, but did not feature Minogue because she was busy touring her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour.

Live performances

"Sometime Samurai" is featured as a backdrop interlude video on Minogue's KylieX2008

KylieX2008

KylieX2008 was the tenth concert tour by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, in support of her tenth studio album, X . Originally announced as just a European tour, rumors of Minogue taking the tour to Australia, Asia, and America had surfaced in the international media...

concert tour.

Single tracklisting

1. "Album Version" — 3:59
2. "ATFC's Bushido Groove Remix" — 7:24
3. "Don Atom 2005 Remix" — 3:55