[citation needed] A demo produced by Mike Hedges led to a contract with Bill Nelson's Cocteau Records, who released their first album Jump Cut in early 1985.
[citation needed] The original album, with the additional 12"s and alternative mixes, was reissued in 1999 on the Shaping the Invisible label.
As a unit they lasted four years and two albums, but their legacy is demonstrably durable, a testament to their originality of thought and commitment to an idea of what music might be rather than an imitation of what it already was.
[1] In his review for AllMusic, Dave Lynch noted that "On the Rocks is startling, sometimes ominous but ultimately both funky and ethereal"; "Next up is the cruising and raga-esque It's Been Fun a richly detailed, tabla fuelled immersive wonder".
"The album wraps up with the irresistible high spirits and power of Orlando Gough's The Wedding, a groovefest extraordinaire suggesting the Steve Reich Ensemble showed up at a massive global party bursting from intricate propulsive constructions into gangbusters choruses that left the revellers fully spent".
Of the band's members, Schaun Tozer, John Lunn and Orlando Gough went on to have the most visible solo careers as composers - in music for both film and television, Glyn Perrin works as composer and performer, whilst Simon Limbrick and Martin Ditcham established careers as internationally renowned percussionists.