Their confidence grew and Lester and Ray started to create their own compositions, and validation was the order of the day - they wanted to get some feedback for their creations.
Andy who played guitar sat in on a session with Lester and Ray and within a few weeks liked what he heard and offered the boys use of his empty garage in Wembley.
They original line up consisted of band leader, bassist, and keyboardist Lester J. Batchelor, drummer Ray Johnson, saxophonist Stewart Cawthorne,[4] producer Jerry Pike[5] and guitarist Andy Sojka, a figure on the Brit funk scene, who owned the All Ears dance music import shop in Harlesden at the time.
Following a major disagreement with Andy Sojka, the main group line up changed completely, when bassist Lester Batchelor left soon after the release of the single "Xtra Special" which he penned.
In the late 1990s, a remix project called Altered Slates, managed to get "Dancing In Outer Space" re-charting low down the Top 100 with mixes from Masters at Work's Louie Vega and Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales,[11] who had sampled "Motivation" on their Bucketheads album track "I Wanna Know" a couple of years before the record re-charted.
[6] In February 2000, Sojka died of multiple myeloma aged 48, while in the middle of recording a new Atmosfear album called Groove World.
[12] He also released a new version of "Dancing In Outer Space" called "DIOS:2020"[11] which featured Francesco Mendolia from Incognito alongside Orphy ‘Vibes’ Robinson MBE, Antonello Filaccio, Dee Byrne, Kenny Barry and Shelley 'Deeizm' Debenham.