TRF is a Japanese band best known for dance-pop singles like "Crazy Gonna Crazy," "Masquerade," and "Brand New Tomorrow," all of which reached Number 1 during the mid-1990s. The group was formed by DJ Koo, Chiharu, Sam, Etsu, and Yu-ki in September 1992. Adopting the full name "Tetsuya Komuro Rave Factory" (as well as the name's official abbreviation, "TRF"), the five DJs began making dance music inspired by techno, rave, and pop. The first single, "Going 2 Dance, Open Your Mind," was released in February 1993. By 1994, TRF had begun working Tetsuya Komuro, Japan's highest-grossing music producer in history, resulting in five consecutive singles — "Survival Dance," "Crazy Gonna Crazy," "Masquerade," "Boy Meets Girl," and "Overnight Sensation" — that all sold more than one million copies each. Three of those singles topped the Oricon Singles chart, and the band reached Number 1 on the Oricon Albums chart multiples times, too, hitting the top spot with three records released in 1994 alone (World Groove, Billionaire, and Hyper Mix III) and returning to Number 1 with 1995's Dance to Positive. After negotiating the turn of the millennium with albums like 1999's Loop # 1999 and 2000's Burst Drive Mix -Album-, the group took a short break, then reunited in 2006 for the comeback album Lif-e-Motions. TRF revisited the Top 40 multiple times during the three years that followed, with commercial highlights including singles like "Where to Begin" and "We Are All Bloomin'." During the following two decades, TRF mostly released compilations like TRF 20th Anniversary BEST SINGLE Collection × EZ DO DANCERCIZE, whose song "Boy Meets Girl" reached number 42 on Japan's Deezer Chart in 2023.
