Dar es Salaam excelled with an extremely vibrant live music scene, highlighting 20+ professional bands circulating through the citys night clubs; playing what is called in Swahili muziki wa dansi. The 1960s and 1970s moreover had seen the influx of a number of bands from neighboring Congo-Zaire. Typically contracted by some of the upmarket clubs and hotels in Dar es Salaam and Arusha for a limited time, some of the individual musicians and bands stayed on, among those the musicians of the future Orchestre Maquis and Orchestre Safari Sound.