Akasha (band)

Akasha are an UK-based electronic music duo, composed of Charlie Casey and Damian Hand.

They were originally signed to the Wall of Sound record label, but now are currently releasing through Ra Recordings.

Formed in 1994 in Brixton / London, their first track appeared on a DJ Bizzniss E.P., released on Payday Recordings. The track was then licensed through Pressure Drop, who recommended them to Wall Of Sound.

This led to the release of the Jazadelica E.P. in 1995, followed by the singles Spanish Fly in 1996 and Brown Sugar in 1997. Appearances on various compilations followed, and then a gig on The Jazz Stage at Glastonbury festival, and the release of their first album, Cinematique in 1998, including guest appearances from Neneh Cherry and Maxi Jazz.

Akasha then went on the road and toured Belgium, France and Germany. In 1999, all tracks on Cinematique were remixed and released as an remix album in 1999.

Casey and Hand have worked with bands and artists like Lemon Jelly, Neneh Cherry, Groove Armada, Art of Noise and Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra.

+/- (band)

+/-, or Plus/Minus, is an American indietronic band formed in 2001. The band makes use of both electronic and traditional instruments, and has sought to use electronics to recreate traditional indie rock song forms and instrumental structures. The group has released two albums on each of the American indie labels Teenbeat Records and Absolutely Kosher, and their track "All I do" was prominently featured in the soundtrack for the major film Wicker Park. The group has developed a devoted following in Japan and Taiwan, and has toured there frequently. Although many artists append bonus tracks onto the end of Japanese album releases to discourage purchasers from buying cheaper US import versions, the overseas versions of +/- albums are usually quite different from the US versions - tracklists can be rearranged, artwork with noticeable changes is used, and tracks from the US version can be replaced as well as augmented by bonus tracks.

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!!!

!!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Its name is most commonly pronounced "Chk Chk Chk" ([/tʃk.tʃk.tʃk/]). Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. They are currently based in New York City, Sacramento, and Portland, Oregon. The band's sixth full-length album, As If, was released in October 2015.

Background and history

!!! is an American band formed in the summer of 1995 by the merger of part of the group Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. After a successful joint tour, these two teams decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the The Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation, which the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest is the preferred pronunciation.

Akasha

Akasha (Sanskrit ākāśa आकाश) is a term for "æther" in traditional Indian cosmology. The term has also been adopted in western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century.

Indian cosmology

The Sanskrit word is derived from a root kāś meaning "to be visible". It appears as a masculine noun in Vedic Sanskrit with a generic meaning of "open space, vacuity". In Classical Sanskrit, the noun acquires the neuter gender and may express the concept of "sky; atmosphere" (Manusmrti, Shatapathabrahmana). In classical Vedantic Hindu philosophy, the word acquires its technical meaning of "an ethereal fluid imagined as pervading the cosmos". In many modern Indo-Aryan languages, the corresponding word (often rendered Akash) retains a generic meaning of "sky".

Hinduism

In Vedantic Hinduism, Akasha means the basis and essence of all things in the material world; the first material element created from the astral world, (Akasha (Ether), Earth,Water,Fire,Air,) in sequence). It is one of the Panchamahabhuta, or "five elements"; its main characteristic is Shabda (sound). The direct traslation of Akasha is the word meaning "sky" in Hindu.

Akasha (1886)

The SS Akasha was a paddle propelled steamship built in 1886 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland for the British Government's Nile Expedition.

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Akasha (comics)

Akasha (Akasha Martinez), also sometimes called The Living Pharaoh, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a former enemy of Spider-Man who has been associated with Ahmet Abdol. She is currently a potential Initiative recruit courtesy of Tony Stark. Akasha has only appeared in two comic book issues, but she has yet to appear in more.

Fictional character biography

Akasha Martinez lives in Utah, where she is the daughter of two divorced parents living in separate cities. Trying to escape a rough childhood, Akasha grew the hobby of riding dirt bikes in the rough terrain of the state with her friends. Growing up to do this usually all the time, she was mostly seen as an outsider by her parents. One day, while racing in the canyons, Akasha crashed into a large pit where she witness what she believed to be a UFO. Stumbling into the object, she lost control of her senses and lost consciousness.

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