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Alejandro Vivanco

Alejandro was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. Since he was a child, he was close to music because his father used to play tenor sax and was the owner of a huge jazz records collection. At the early age of 7 years, he used to spend many hours in front of the stereo. when he became a teenager, he started palying electric guitar in several school bands, influenced by the music of bands like Sonic Youth, Jesus & Mary chain and Pixies, among others.

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Bismarck

Bismarck have their roots in the legendary Amsterdam garage band Les Baroques. By the end of the 60s Les Baroques morphed into a band called Island, who released a couple of singles. Shortly after, three members of Island formed a new outfit which became known as Bismarck. They went on to release just two singles.

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Mahesh

Mahesh, (Gran Dios, en Sánscrito) fue formado en una vaga fecha posterior al cambio de milenio con el fin de perpetuar ideales artísticos e inquietudes no lucrativas de tres músicos chilenos. La búsqueda por integrantes con dominio técnico-instrumental y técnico-humano para esta empresa es iniciada por el Bajista/Compositor Inti Oyarzún, tras la ruptura con un previo experimento artístico en Chile.

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Dandy Jack

A native of Santiago, Martin Schopf has lived in Germany since the late '80s, taking an active role in the scene and contributing to labels such as Pete Namlook's Fax and Atom Heart's Rather Interesting. Whether as Dandy Jack or in a number of collaborative projects (Ric y Martin, Gonzalo Martinez), Schopf hopes to intensify the link between electronic music and Latin sound. With Frankfurt's Pink Elln, he records under the name Sieg Über Die Sonne...

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Supernova

There is more than one artist with this name: 1. A pop punk band founding in California in 1989. They are most well known for their song Chewbacca from the movie Clerks. They often dress in space suits and claim to be from the planet "Cynot3", and have appeared on the Nickelodeon series, "Yo Gabba Gabba!", on more than one occasion. They are currently comprised of Art Mitchell on lead vocals and bass, Dave Collins on drums, and Courtney Pollock (A.K.A. Chainsaw, the Prince of Karate) on lead guitar.

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Koko

Koko Stambuk, better know as Koko is the man behind some of Kudai's and Reik's biggest hits, making him one of the best producers and composers today. After leaving the band Glup! he took a break from the music business but now he has decided to launch a career as a solo artist. His first single "Valiente" is now available everywhere.

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Solar

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Peruvian electronic (ambient, experimental, post rock, indie). 2) English Alternative Rock band with Arena-Singer Rob Sowden. 3) Christian Straub, a German artist, performs under this name. 4) Chilean alternative rock band 5) Australian electronic (downtempo, ambient) project . 6) Polish rapper emerging from Żoliborz, Warsaw. 7) San Francisco Bay Area DJ 8) Russian female fronted symphonic power metal band.

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Douglas

This tag relates to three artists, the Welsh pop-punk band, a Chilean pop singer of the same name, and a Pittsburgh folk rock/rock n' roll band. 1.- Douglas had a knack for writing songs with hooks that could land whales whilst retaining a hardcore sentiment coupled with energy and emotion. Live performances were a frenetic mass of raw energy, chaos and positive belief in what they did, leading to slots on the Warped Tour and supporting Lostprophets on their 2003 UK tour. After their most successful headline tour to date, changing personal priorities lead to Douglas splitting up.

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Casino

There are more artists using this name: 1) Casino begun at first as smaller band in Chile, they became popular in the country with the song En Tus Manos because it was the theme song of the Chilean film Promedio Rojo. 2) Casino was a one-off project by Geoff Mann and the gang from Shadowland (Karl Groom and Clive Nolan (also of Pendragon)). Casino features an eighties-UK-progressive superstar line-up, including members from Pendragon (keyboardist Clive Nolan), Twelfth Night (lead vocalist Geoff Mann and drummer Brian Devoil)...

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