In early 1996 the band's vocalist, Rui David, was playing acoustic guitar and singing on a beach in the Algarve (south of Portugal) when a DJ from a national radio station heard him.
With the company's full support and commitment to the band's goal of becoming an international act, Hands on Approach started working, in October 2002, on their third album which took them 5 months of hiding on the surroundings of São Pedro do Sul, where the label's own studio is situated.
The album Groovin' on Monster's eye-balls was released in September 2005 and the first single to come out was A chance, a song that garnered many new fans by appearing on the soundtrack of an audience-leader TV show series called Morangos com Açucar.
After the release of the album, the band was confident that they had done a good job, but the massive hit that turned their second single, If you give up the most played song of the year in Portuguese radio, exceeded their expectations.
The song remained in the top 20 for 6 months and confirmed Hands on Approach as an established and one of the most prolific acts in the Portuguese music scene.