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unusual facts about Dis-n-Dat


Whoot, There It Is

It was produced and written by C.C. Lemonhead and Jay Ski (The Bass Mechanics), the production duo who were responsible for several other popular Miami bass acts including the 69 Boyz, Quad City DJs and Dis-n-Dat.


020120

The music is basically material from the Osc-Dis and the 010 albums, but it did include a faster version of Kami-Uta as an encore track and for the intro tape, the show opens with Crass' song Gotcha (who inspired the band in their earlier days).

About URI scheme

Still other versions of Netscape would return various phrases in response to an unknown about URI, including “Whatchew talkin' 'bout, Willis?” (a catch phrase from the TV show Diff'rent Strokes) or “Homey don't play dat!” (from a recurring skit on the TV show In Living Color).

Afu-Ra

Wu-Tang's Masta Killa appeared on the song "Livin' Like Dat", and underground favorite Royce da 5'9" appeared on "Pusha".

Anything Box

Claude discovers a collection of older Anything Box recordings from 1993-1995 on a nearly-destroyed DAT.

Audio Home Recording Act

The impasse was broken at a meeting in Athens in 1989, when representatives from the recording industry and the consumer electronics industry reached a compromise intended to enable the sale of DAT recorders in the United States.

Ausar Auset Society

Ausar’s devoted wife Auset gathers the parts of her husband’s dis-membered body and magically conceives their son, Heru (Horus).

Bithiah

In the well known song "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, the character Sportin' Life expresses skepticism about the veracity of several Biblical stories, including this one: "Li'l Moses was found in a stream/Li'l Moses was found in a stream/He floated on water/Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter/She fished him, she said, from dat stream".

Bunnag family

With the death of Bodindecha in 1849, Dis remained as the sole powerful nobility in the court.

Carl Schwaner

Borneo: beschrijving van het stroomgebeid van den Barito, en reizen langs eenige voorname rivieren van het Zuid-Oosterlijk gedeelte van dat eiland (edited by Jan Pijnappel), 1853 - Borneo: description of the basin of the Barito River, and travel along some major rivers of the southeastern part of the island.

Church Heathen

In the intro of the song, he states, "If you tek dis too serious, then you really need sum church", which is Patois for, "If you take this too seriously, then you really need some church."

Cures for Broken Hearts

The mini-album was recorded by Suzanne Rhatigan& Antony Harding at Cushy Productions in Stockwell, London, between March 1997 and December 1997 on a reel to reel eight track (1/4" tape) and mixed to DAT.

Dat'r

Shortly after the release of their Hush Records debut Turn Up the Ghosts, Dat'r was voted #6 on the "Top Ten Best New Bands in Portland" by the Willamette Week, a local newspaper.

Dat'r is an Electronic music band consisting of Matt Dabrowiak and Paul Alcott, from Portland, Oregon.

Dís

Some of the surrounding text has been lost and it is not known what Gunnar may have said prior to this, and there is disagreement on which stanza number this should be given.

DMP Digital Music Products

DMP was one of the few labels to release commercial DAT recordings, has been at the forefront of introducing numerous digital recording technologies, and has been a pioneer in the SACD digital audio format.

Drowned in Sound

DiS have been involved with Summer Sundae festival since 2008, and in 2010 kick off their 10th Anniversary celebrations with a line-up headlined by The Futureheads and Frightened Rabbit.

Fugazi Live Series

The sound quality also varies as the earliest recordings were made to cassettes, then eventually digital formats such as DAT, CD-R and ultimately hard-drives were used.

Georges Aber

For Frank Alamo : "Le chef de la bande", "Pas de larmes", "Reviens vite et oublie" (also performed by Les Surfs), "Je me bats pour gagner", "Non, ne dis pas adieu"

GIS file formats

MapInfo TAB format - MapInfo's vector data format using TAB, DAT, ID and MAP files

Gronings dialect

East Frisian Low Saxon: Dat eenzige, dat wi neet doon is Slickeree utdelen.

Northern Low Saxon of Germany: Dat eenzige, dat wi nich doot, (dat) is Snabbelkraam uutdeeln.

Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte

Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte ("The brain that came from space") is an experimental electronic Dutch band from Heemskerk.

Hoepla

Other newspapers, though, were more positive, and the commentary in parliament by SGP representative C. N. van Dis (the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij is a small, orthodox, Calvinist party), who strongly criticized the Minister of Culture Marga Klompé for allowing women to be degraded, did not meet with approval in parliament or the press.

John W. Bubbles

In 1963, in a studio recording of Porgy and Bess featuring Leontyne Price and William Warfield, he performed Sportin' Life's two main arias from the opera, "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York".

Katiana Balanika

This includes the series "Savvatogennimenes" written by Giorgos Kapoutzidis, "Ntoltse Vita" co-starring with Anna Panayiotopoulou, "Danikos Pateras", and "Dis Madiam" as Mrs. Meropi.

Lavondyss

The name of the novel hints at the real and mythological locales of Avon, Lyonesse, Avalon and Dis; within the novel Lavondyss is the name of the remote, ice-age heart of Ryhope wood.

Les Duos de Marc

# "Dis-moi que l'amour" (Berger, Lavoine) (with Bamboo) — 2:54

Luscombe Airfield

The airfield was built by 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers for the 1st Australian Task Force at Nui Dat.

Mannish water

The dish is mentioned in the 1974 Pluto Shervington song "Ram Goat Liver" which was reissued in 1976 (following the success of "Dat") and made it to #43 in the UK singles chart.

Marianne Thieme

Marianne Thieme always concludes her speeches in Parliament with the phrase "Voorts zijn wij van mening dat er een einde moet komen aan de bio-industrie." ("Furthermore we are of the opinion that factory farming has to be ended."), referring to Cato the Elder's famous conclusion of his speeches with Carthago delenda est.

Mick Head

Producer Chris Allison had the only surviving copy of the album, but unaware of a fire that demolished the studio, carelessly left his copy of the tape in a rental car while in the U.S.; upon returning to the UK and learning of the studio's fate he managed to contact the rental car company and rescue the DAT, but the record company had collapsed and there was no one to distribute it.

Ola Kala

In 2003, a 10 track version of the album was subsequently re-released in France to include his debut cover single "Dis lui", originally sung by Mike Brant as a French adaptation of the 1975 Morris Albert song "Feelings".

One More Reason to Forget

Recorded live to DAT on November 6th, 1997 at the Church of Phillip St. Neri, Louisville, Kentucky.

Osc-Dis

The song "Pulse" appears on the in-game soundtrack to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.

Oya lélé

The song "Dat ding dat je doet" features vocals from Belgian singer Marcel Vanthilt.

Raymond I, Count of Pallars and Ribagorza

His wife may be the Giniguentes, daughter of Aznar Dat, mentioned in the Codex of Roda, but the text is ambiguous and this may instead be his daughter-in-law.

Screaming Banshee Aircrew

The band quickly gained a reputation as an energetic live act and were to gather a fanbase across the UK, especially within the Gothic Rock circuit (see Goth subculture), during this time with an act that featured DAT tape backing, guitars and interwoven male and female lead vocals.

Serial Copy Management System

SCMS was created as a compromise between electronics manufacturers, mainly Sony and Phillips, who wanted to make DAT machines available in the United States, and the RIAA, which had previously hampered the availability of DAT machines in the US with the threat of lawsuits.

Siegfried H. Elsing

Siegfried H. Elsing has served as counsel, chairman, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in more than 150 national and international arbitral proceedings (inter alia ICC, DIS, ICSID, SCC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, ad hoc).

State Cinema

The local council received a planning application in August 1998 from the Peniel Pentecostal Church to establish a church in the now dis-used building.

Sun Carriage

Sun Carriage enjoyed other radio play and notably supported Therapy on their mini tour of Ireland, North and South in February 1992, after previously (dis)gracing the emerald isle in 1991 with Dinosaur Jr.

Synchronica

In March 2005, Synchronica was acquired by AIM listed infrastructure consultancy DAT Group, headquartered in the village of Bodiam in East Sussex.

Templeborough

Tombstone of a Dobunniwoman inscribed DIS M VERECVD RVFI LIA CIVES DOBVNNA ANNOR XXXV EXCINGVS CONIVX CONIVGI KARISSIMAE POSIT DE SVO

The Sunmachine and the Ocean

"The Sunmachine And The Ocean" is the first official release from Scottish post-hardcore band The Ocean Fracture, and was produced by Ben Phillips at City Of Dis studios in Gillingham, Kent.

Till the Clouds Roll By

The first 15 minutes of the film consist of a condensed adaptation of Act I of Show Boat, with the order of some of the songs shifted - "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" is sung after "Life upon the Wicked Stage", and "Ol' Man River" was used as an Act I Finale, dissimilar to the show.

Wise Quackers

The film makes several references to African-American slaves for comedic effect, and has Daffy uttering the line "Tote dat barge! Lift dat bale!" from the song Ol' Man River.

Witness Tha Realest

Witness tha Realest was delayed on several occasions due to the lack of a record distributor and the dissolution of Tru 'Dat' Entertainment.


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