due to the new influences the basket boys soon split and hartwig founded bask with his old band mate manny montana; which within a few years opened the way from an underground live act to an official recording contract. at least since the albums dark monkey moods (1997) and world slow down (1999), the band finally is counted as pioneers of the vienna downtempo school. at the same time, isepp stopped his own musical career and started as editor the "trailblazing graphic arts / technology magazine" (mtv, 1994) envelope. the magazine reached, especially in germany and japan, cult status and still is regarded as the first german-language print media, which united electronic music, graphic design and multimedia with each other.