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Cupa is an alias used by the popular trance producer Gareth Emery. He released the tracks Blaze in 2003 and Mass Panic in 2005. .

Opa cupa (read: «opa tzupa»), its a shout of exhortation to the dance used by gypsies of South-Eastern Europe. It represents the musical project risen from Salento (south Italy) directed towards the research for the repertory of Balcan music. Musicians coming from different cultures (Bosnia-Erzegovina, Albany South Italy) gather around the leader, the trumpeter Cesare DellAnna. They play a «marginal» music which is strongly influenced by different styles, blending caleidoscopics sonorities with brilliant moments of pure musical interpretative technique. The project broadens for poliedrics experiences with ethnic and jazz music. The result is a fusion and an elaboration of fast...

Around 1981, the New Occupants started recording at Danger Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. The first record by The New Occupants, a four song album which included “It’s Time To Become Robots”, along with “I Want To Function With You”, “Mechanical Rights”, and “Interdigitation”. This album was released on Danger Records and was played at some of the local dance clubs, including First Avenue, in downtown Minneapolis and received much airplay on the college radio station network. Sometime in 1984, C. David Erbele and Tom Campbell wrote a song for The New Occupants called “Blue Light”. The song was recorded...