It lacked the delicious hooks and tight funk of Composite Truth, but Just Outside of Town was as solid and confident a piece of music-making as the band ever accomplished. The single "Mango Meat" is a tough Latin funk number with some inspired group harmonizing, and Mandrill stretched out with a pair of love songs, "Never Die" and the aptly titled "Love Song," the latter beginning with a few minutes of atmospheric bliss that boasted unrealized cinematic/soundtrack possibilities.

Association α-Centauri started in November 1992 with the aim to promote and develop Electronic Music (i.e. synthesizer music) in a pro-active way. One of the ways α-Centauri realizes this is by means of stimulating and helping amateur musicians to develop themselves and to give them opportunity to present themselves to audience. With this goal in mind α-Centauri organizes all sorts of events, like a mini-concerts and Electronic Music Festivals and nowadays has around 100 contributors of which most of them are more or less active in creating Electronic Music. In 1996 they gave their contributors the opportunity to subscribe to an Electronic Music Competition, of which the best compositions are released on this very first α-Centauri CD.

Founded in 1987, PINK CREAM 69 are something of an international act with ANDY DERIS and Alfred Koffler being German, Dennis Ward is American and Kosta Zafirou Greek and the group won a local band competition in 1988 which brought them to the attention of Epic Records. Pink Cream 69 was the first full-length album from Pink Cream 69.

Aurio Corrá: "I started my piano studies at the age of four. At eighteen years of age I was educated in classical music at the Sao Paulo Conservatory. Later, I dedicated my atttention to the study of Jazz and contemporary music. I studied the viola and later I moved on to the guitar. In 2001 I started to study the soprano saxophone, influenced by the sound of Paul Winter, and with Ivan Meyer as my teacher, continuing until 2003. From here I started to teach myself how to play woodwind instruments. I released my first New Age piece of music in 1988 called 'Aura', with the participation of the harpist María Tereza Briamonte…

Like any patchy but promising debut from a classic rock group, it's often easy to underrate Queen's eponymous 1973 debut, since it has no more than one well-known anthem and plays more like a collection of ideas than a cohesive album…