# Tofubeats

Yūsuke Kawai (河合 佑亮, Kawai Yūsuke, born 26 November 1990), known professionally as Tofubeats, is a Japanese singer, record producer, and DJ.
Kawai began producing music at the age of 14, under the name "DJ Newtown". He initially distributed his music online through websites such as 2channel and YouTube. He later released music with Maltine Records, a Japanese netlabel, before signing with the Warner Music Japan sublabel Unborde in 2013. Kawai also manages HIHATT, a label he launched in 2018.
The video for his song "No. 1" featuring G.Rina was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Dance Video (in 2014), and his album titled First Album for the Grand Prix at the 2015 CD Shop Awards.

## Discography
### Albums
#### As Tofubeats

| No. | Album details | Charts |
| No. | Album details | JPN |
| 1 | Lost Decade First album Released: 24 April 2013 (2013-04-24) | 40 |
| 2 | First Album First album on a major label Released: 2 October 2014 (2014-10-02) | 11 |
| 3 | Positive Second album on a major label Released: 16 September 2015 (2015-09-16) | 16 |
| 4 | Fantasy Club Third album on a major label Released: 24 May 2017 (2017-05-24) | 19 |
| 5 | Run Fourth album on a major label Released: 3 October 2018 (2018-10-03) | 22 |
| 6 | Reflection Fifth album on a major label Released: 18 May 2022 (2022-05-18) | 14 |

#### As DJ Newtown

| No. | Album details |
| 1 | high-school girl(we loved) Released: 10 January 2009 (2009-01-10) |
| 2 | Cutegirl.jpg Released: 16 December 2009 (2009-12-16) |
| 3 | Sweet Days, Sweet Memories Released: 30 March 2011 (2011-03-30) |
| 4 | S.U.B. Urban Credited as Tofubeats & DJ newtown Released: 10 July 2011 (2011-07-10) |
| 5 | West Members Released: 16 September 2019 (2019-09-16) |

#### EPs

| No. | Album details | Charts |
| No. | Album details | JPN |
| 1 | Beats for Rap Released: 28 March 2008 (2008-03-28) | N/A |
| 2 | Touch Released: 25 July 2011 (2011-07-25) | N/A |
| 3 | Summer Dreams Released: 30 August 2012 (2012-08-30) | N/A |
| 4 | Don't Stop The Music First EP on a major label Released: 13 November 2013 (2013-11-13) | 26 |
| 5 | Disco no Kami-sama (ディスコの神様) Second EP on a major label Released: 30 April 2014 (2014-04-30) | 35 |
| 6 | TBEP Released: 27 March 2020 (2020-03-27) | 70 |
| 7 | A440 Collab with DJ Q Released 27 January 2023 | N/A |

##### Remix albums

* Lost Decade Remixes (19 September 2013)
* First Album Remixes (28 January 2015)
* Positive Remixes (20 January 2016)
* Fantasy Club Remixes & Instrumentals (27 July 2018)
* RUN Remixes (4 September 2020)
* Reflection Remixes (3 November 2022)

### Singles

* See the singles section in the Japanese Wikipedia.

### Music videos

| Title | Director(s) |
| "Her Favorite" feat. Okadada & "Koromogae" "Oshiete Kensaku" feat. Noko "Shopping Mall" "Callin" | tofubeats |
| "Suisei" feat. Onomatope Daijin | Arasounara Ōkan Moyase |
| "Come On Honey!" feat. Arai Hitomi from Tokyo Girls' Style | Shunsuke Sugiyama, Kuroudo Furuya, and Shōta Mori |
| "poolside" feat. PES (RIP SLYME) | Shunsuke Sugiyama, Kuroudo Furuya, and Hiroyuki Ohashi |
| "No.1" feat. G.Rina | Takuya Hosogane and Shunsuke Sugiyama |
| "Don't Stop The Music" feat. Chisato Moritaka "Disco no Kamisama" feat. Takashi Fujii "BABY" | Yuki Mori |
| "Stakeholder" | Shunsuke Sugiyama, Yūya Yamaguchi, and Takuma Miyamoto |
| "Lonely Nights" | Ryoji Kamiyama |