The Daktaris, whose name means "doctors" in Swahili, were an Afro-beat revival group based in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

. The group no longer exists today, though some of its members have gone on to be part of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Antibalas is a Brooklyn-based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra...

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Basing its sound on the style of 1970s African musicians like Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti

Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...

, The Daktaris are today known for the faked Nigerian origin of their album Soul Explosion, which included Africanized personell names, a vintage cover, and a "Produced in Nigeria" label. Soul Explosion was originally recorded in 1998 and released under the Desco

DESCO

DESCO is an underwater diving equipment maker which was first organized in 1937 in Wisconsin in the USA as Diving Equipment and Salvage Co.It was founded by:-...

 label. It was reissued by Daptone Records

Daptone Records

Daptone Records is a funk and soul independent record label formed by Gabriel Roth and Neal Sugarman and based in Brooklyn, New York.After the demise of the Desco label Gabriel Roth teamed up with Neal Sugarman to create a new label, Daptone Records...

in 2004.