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A lot of artists use the name "Dakota". 01. A pseudonym of Trance DJ Markus Schulz 02. An English Pop/Rock band (Ben Talbot, Aaron Whealen, Tom Davison, Robert Armitage) 03. A melodic rock band active from the late 70's to early 80's (Bill Kelly & Jerry G. Hludzik) 04. A collaboration of German progressive trance producers - Marc Engemann, Tobias Beyer & Daniel Torhoff (early 00's) 05. A German progressive rock / experimental band (Andreas Brüning, Rüdiger Klose, Tonio Scorpo), 90's 06. An alias of UK trance producer Dave Conway, a member of duo Sadie Glutz with Laurence Elliott-Potter 07....

From TerraKota flourishes a natural music deep rooted in the Black continent, inspired by the Saharan, Caribbean, Hindu and the Western sounds that rise under the Jamaican sun. In most cases, African music is simply the expression of life through sounds in which the musician beyond imitating the sounds of nature, using natural musical instruments, also reverses this process using the sounds of nature in its music. This is TerraKota`s motive; they use African traditional and popular harmonies and rhythms, playing various instruments from all over the world, further to the usual Western instruments such as bass, guitar and drums....

The Dakotas were formed in Manchester, England, in 1960, the name being suggested by a local promoter who wanted the band to dress up as native American Indians! By early 1963 the Dakotas were now signed to Brian Epstein’s NEMS agency, and, thanks to the success of the Beatles, signed up to EMI records subsidiary label, Parlophone. Billy J Kramer had been friends with John Lennon for some time and John gave the group a demo of a new song, “Do You Want to Know a Secret”, which they perfected whilst working in Hamburg at the Star Club. On returning...

Beginning their career with live stints in moist caves and on BBC 2's "Newsnight," Manchester's Delakota strives for that tricky sonic patch between shambolic Madchester indie, nostalgic retro-rock, and scuffed-up, modern dance. Des Murphy and ex-Senseless Things Cass Browne made their group debut in 1997 with a limited white-label single, "C'mon Cincinnati," but it wasn't until a respected remix for David Holmes and the premier commercial release of "The Rock" that the band started to gain the attention of international press. The latter song's characteristic fusion of stumbling beats and Primal Scream riffs especially ignited curiosity in the British indie...