Dr. Octagon is one of Kool Keith's many alter egos. His initial release as Dr. Octagon was 1996's Dr. Octagonecologyst, on which he collaborated with Dan the Automator Nakamura and DJ QBert. After the name was dropped in favour of Dr. Dooom, it was widely believed that it wouldn't be used again until the release of 2006's The Return of Dr. Octagon, which Keith maintains was changed and released without his consent.
Emerging from the tragic bankruptcy of Stiff Records, James Taylor, founding member of the infamous group The Prisoners, formed The James Taylor Quartet. JTQ's first single, Blow Up was released on the Re Elect The President (Acid Jazz) label in 1985. It was a huge success, immediately attracting the attention of John Peel who championed it; the track appearing in Peel's annual Festive Fifty chart.
No Limits are 2 groups. (1) They are a Christian R&B Jazz Group called No Limits. They started with a handful of people from Christian In Action Church in Adiscombe. They started in the late 1990's but have not made anymore then one album then "Here to Stay". They have done a few live performances but they have seemed to of disabandoned in the early 2000's. (2) No Limits is Polish pop/soul group.NO LIMITS was one of the biggest stars of the Polish music scene in the 90's, often aired on TV stations such as MTV, Super Channel or the German Rias TV as the most interesting Polish group.
Jazzanova is a crew of DJs/producers from Germany (Berlin, Hamburg & Munich). They have been producing hits in the breakbeat / electronic scene since 1996. Their music fuses many styles, including: acid jazz, soul & broken beat.
Percy Sledge (born 25 November 1941 in Leighton, Alabama) is a US-American R&B and soul performer. Percy Sledge worked in the fields in Leighton before he worked as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield. By the mid-1960s, Sledge was touring the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends and working at the hospital. A former patient who was a friend of producer Quin Ivy introduced the two, an audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract.
King Britt is a pioneer of all things soulful, rhythmically textured and melodically provocative. This Philadelphia native has found a way to escape the strictures of a single category of music by expressing his creations through deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk and afro-tech. Whether it’s film scoring for Hollywood, rocking the playa at Burning Man or consulting for the leading urban lifestyle brands, there are no limits to what King Britt will do next.
Long Arm took up music when he was a kid. In music school he studied how to play piano. He was really impressed by a DJ
BrassBastardz was given birth in 2003 by saxophonist Alvydas Maciulskas and trumpeter Aurimas Rimeikis. At that time the band was comprised of many great musicians playing in the most popular homegrown bands. After having thrown couple of great concerts BrassBastardz seized their performances and moved to the musical underground. Even having stopped to perform the band kept moving.
Through these years 4 Vinyl’s where released.
There are at least three bands named Hacienda. 1) Rock Band rom San Antonio, Texas
The band has always been a family affair with cousins Abraham Villanueva and Dante Schwebel planting the musical seeds that would become the Hacienda sound. The two had modest musical goals but were unable to secure additional members that were on the same page musically and personally in 2004. Meanwhile the two remaining Villanueva brothers were playing together in a band at bars and house parties outside of San Antonio.
At least five bands have used the name "Akasha." The first was a Norwegian spacey, electronic prog band, who recorded one album in 1977. For more information on the band, visit progarchives.com. The second Akasha is a Swedish group consisting of five women. The group was inspired by Sri Chinmoy's poetry and songs, and started to sing and play together in 1982. Since then the group has been giving concerts in Sweden regularly and has also been on tours in Finland, France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.