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Zoltan

There is more than one artist called Zoltan: 1. Zoltan is a and music four-piece band from R?ga, Latvia formed in 2002. Since then, the band has gone through many band member changes, also there is a big difference between nowadays musical genre and the beginning. They have played many shows around the Latvia area - including performance with Captain Everything, Argies, Oz One, Part Time Killer, One Hidden Frame, and Go Back Home.

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Remix

Most of remixed songs are tagged as remix, but Remix are also a rock band from Latvia. Founded in 1985 as a band of Latvian Radio with the line-up:
Rodrigo Fomins (a.k.a. IGO) - lead vocalist
Aivars Hermanis - guitars
Jevgenijs Scapovs - bass guitar (until '88)
Uldis Marhilēvičs - keyboards/vocals
Vilnis Krieviņš - percussion
Harijs Bass - keyboards (until '86)
Eduards Glotovs - bass guitar (since '88)

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Beat Milk Jugs

Beat Milk Jugs originally come from a Latvian city Daugavpils, a town of rich culture and good people. Having recently moved to the UK, in a year's time Beat Milk Jugs have appeared in the Future Music's monthly Top 10 Reader Demos for 5 times, and two of them on the top position.
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Tribes of the City

Tribes of the City, (originally named The Movies) is a post-rock band from Riga, Latvia. They are currently signed to Platforma Records. The band was formed in 2003 and as of 2009 has recorded three full-length albums. They have gained a nation-wide success and were nominated for MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 as the best Baltic act. Between magic and technology. Between sacred and profane. Between society and solitude pave their way Tribes of the City from Riga.

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Brainstorm

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Brainstorm is a power/thrash metal band from Germany, formed in 1989. The band features American born lead singer Andy B. Franck, who is also famous for his other band, Symphorce. They are known to play a somewhat darker style of music than most power metal groups. Formed in 1989 by Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric on guitars and Dieter Bernert on drums, Brainstorm released their first demo "Hand Of Doom" after one year of existence.

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Detlef

There are two artists named Detlef 1) A Latvian Indie/Alt. Rock band, later renamed to Detlez Zoo 2)Be As One reunites some fresh talented producers for its second installment of the successfull Tools For School compilation Greek rising talent Detlef debuts with two tracks of summer flavour and jazzy grooves in the form of "Maccaca" and "Colo Loca"

Read more about Detlef on Last.fm.

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Xenos

There are a few groups that go by the name Xenos: 1. Xenos are a folk ensemble from Melbourne, Australia that have been playing for over a decade, nationally and internationally. 2. The band Xenos formed in the year 2000 and has become one of the most known Christian music bands in Latvia.
Two years in row (1999, 2000) Xenos leader, Santa was responsible to organize summer outreaches for Musicians Summer of Service, (YWAM Montana) music band called TAP. During these TAP concerts, in order to have some songs in the local language, Santa and her friend Sandis did some songs during the break.

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