They sang The Beatles' songs, the obligatory rendition of The House of the Rising Sun and other traditional Catalan arrangements in rock versions.
The rise in popularity of folk music prompted Els Llums to become La Roda and they began playing more acoustic sets.
Changing their name once again to "Fang i Disbauxa", they abandoned folk music and went back to their electric roots, partly because they crashed their father's car, a tiny Seat 600, while the double bass was on the roof rack.
They got into Blues, and wanted to play solos like John Lee Hooker and Big Bill Broonzy so they decided to turn their hands to instrumental pieces.
Also on the bill were other musicians who have become big stars such as Maria del Mar Bonet, Om, Baf, Fennech, Bueyes Madereros, Slo Blo, Jaume Sisa and Pau Riba.
Companyia Elèctrica Dharma and Orquesta Mirasol were the main exponents of this musical style together with such musicians as Santi Arisa, Arrels, Jordi Sabatés, Sisa and Max Sunyer, to mention only a few.
Summer 1974, Josep, Esteve, Joan, Carles and Jordi, together with Frances Contra went to live in Casa Nova de Can Comas, a farm in the north of the country.
The album, released in April, had a jazz, rock and free-jazz influences, the result of listening to musicians such as Miles Davis, Weather Report, John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter.
The album L'Oucomballa was the first time they combined their own peculiar sound with more traditional music, and they matured and consolidated this experiment in Tramuntana.
They went on tour and were a great success all over Spain, particularly in the final concert at the Real Madrid Sports Pavillian in the capital in December 1977.
In the magazine Billboard, Carlos Agudelo wrote "The music o Companyia Elèctrica Dharma is mature, rich and powerful; it calls your attention and plays with your senses in a new, delicate and fascinating way.
The Fortuny brothers and Carles Vidal went back to the rehearsal studio, a house in Carrer de Sagunt street in the district of Sants, to prepare for the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the group.
The most important event was a concert at the Palau Sant Jordi on 23 April, where they performed with 17 different bands and guest singers in front of an audience of up to 20,000 people.
Some of the most important concerts from these European tours were: They performed at the biggest festival in the world, with a total audience of around one million people.
They had been invited by Carlos de Andrade, owner of Visom Digital, a Brazilian-based record company, and a promoter who had discovered them at a WOMEX in Germany and decided to publish two compilations of their work in Brazil.
In 1996 they released the album El ventre de la bèstia, which expresses their frustration with how the system absorbs all the struggles for change.
In the year 2000 the eighteenth Dharma record, Sonada, was released with influences from Romani music and new versions of previous songs.
In this period they went on two international tours, the first to Rock in Rio III, in Brazil, and the second to South Africa, where for the first time they managed to combine the tenora and the imbombo (Catalan and African instruments together).