Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: ???????, Latvian: Zodiaks) was an disco/synthpop group that existed in the 1980s in Latvia, then a part of USSR. The band was extremely popular in the USSR and has been credited by critics as the Soviet answer to the French band Space who were popular at the time. Biography Zodiac was formed by J?nis L?s?ns, then studying composition at the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. The other four members of the group were also students of various faculties of the same conservatory. Zodiac's first vinyl record Disco Alliance (Russian: ????? ??????, Latvian: Disko alianse) was released in 1980 on the monipolist Melodiya label, during the band members' studentship. A significant part of the group's blazing success was that the album was produced by Aleksandrs Gr?va, one of the best sound engineers of the country, also the father of band member Zane Gr?va. The music featured a lot of then-unusual synthesized sou

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