In the late 70s. In the depths of the student club of the J. Vitols Latvian State Conservatory, composer Janis Lusens and producer Alexander Griva, under the influence of the music of the foreign group "Space", create the rock group "Zodiac", which is almost entirely focused on studio work. The art of the musicians of the Zodiac group aroused great interest of the audience. The reasons for this, apparently, in the originality of the musical decisions, the originality of the compositions performed by the group. Her manner attracted by the balanced sound, the prevalence of the melodic principle over the rhythm-percussion, noise, technical perfection and good taste.
"Zodiac" is a studio ensemble: its creative ideas and style are fully revealed only in the recording, which is a long, complex and painstaking work of all participants, especially a sound engineer. "Zodiac" performs electronic rock music using polyphonic synthesizers and various special sound recording effects. The wide and varied performance possibilities allow the ensemble to create compositions on a wide variety of topics. One of them is the theme of space. The Zodiac has addressed her on several occasions. And with particular interest - after visiting the Star City, where the musicians performed with success and personally communicated with astronauts, specialists working in this field. Meetings in Star City, stories about flights to space gave the ensemble a new creative stimulus. And already the names of Janis Lusens's compositions testify to the nature of the music performed by the rock group "Zodiac". In 1982, the ensemble successfully performed in Moscow in the pop program "Youth of the Baltic", which was held as part of the final concert of the "Moscow Stars" festival dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR and the XIX Congress of the Komsomol. The work on the film "Star Palette" (Central Studio of Popular Science Films) has also been completed, where "Zodiac", with its music, seems to "comment" on the films of the twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
The first album "Disco Alliance", recorded and released in 1980, became the most bought album in Latvia of all time. He was a real bomb on the Soviet stage. Records, released in large circulation, were sold out instantly in all corners of the Soviet Union. According to unofficial records, over 20 million vinyl records have been sold in the Soviet Union, Japan, Austria, Finland and other countries around the world.