This album represents a landmark in Soda Stereo's career basically in two aspects: artistically and commercially.
Despite the fact that with their first two albums they achieved national success, the band was pegged as frivolous entertainers, related with other Argentinean bands such as Virus or Los Twist; with this album, the press and the audience began to take them seriously.
Commercially it represented the breakthrough from Argentina to the rest of Latin America.
After the release of the album, they started touring Latin America, achieving a success that no Argentinean pop/rock band had achieved before in countries such as Chile, Perú, and Venezuela.
The result of the extensive tour can be heard in the live album Ruido Blanco.
Although it's not a concept album, the eight songs on it have coherence and consistency.
Maybe it's the band's darkest and obscure album, but strangely it didn't conspire with the audience acceptance, and many hits came out.
Songs such as "Signos," "Persiana Americana," and "Profugos" gave the band the possibility of conquering wider audiences and, at the same time, allowed them to explore new musical directions.
The general feeling of the album could be resumed in the song that concludes it: "Final Caja Negra." A masterpiece.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sin SobresaltosHéctor Bosio, Gustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 04:24 | 10 MB | 34 MB |
| 2 | El RitoGustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 06:08 | 14 MB | 43 MB |
| 3 | ProfugosGustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 05:19 | 12 MB | 41 MB |
| 4 | No ExistesHéctor Bosio, Gustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 04:45 | 10 MB | 34 MB |
| 5 | Persiana AmericanaGustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 04:54 | 11 MB | 36 MB |
| 6 | En CaminoGustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 04:31 | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| 7 | SignosGustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 05:17 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 8 | Final Caja NegraHéctor Bosio, Gustavo Cerati | Soda Stereo | Play | 05:43 | 13 MB | 43 MB |
| 41 mins | 94 MB | |||||
| 41 mins | 304 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charly Alberti | Wind Instruments |
| 2 | Héctor Bosio | Composer |
| 3 | Gustavo Cerati | Composer, Guitarra Concheros, Percussion, Vocals, Wind Instruments |
| 4 | Richard Coleman | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 5 | Marcelo Delettieres | Assistant |
| 6 | Marcello Ferreyra | Trombone, Wind Instruments |
| 7 | Celsa Mel Gowland | Guest Artist, Vocals |
| 8 | Alfredo Lois | Artwork |
| 9 | Caito Lorenzo | Artwork, Photography |
| 10 | Jorge Rearte | Assistant |
| 11 | Pablo Rodríguez | Sax (Alto), Wind Instruments |
| 12 | Oscar Sayavedra | Production Coordination |
| 13 | Sebastián Schon | Sax (Tenor), Wind Instruments |
| 14 | Soda Stereo | Primary Artist |
| 15 | Diego Urcola | Trumpet, Wind Instruments |
| 16 | Fabián Von Quintiero | Emulator, Guest Artist, Organ (Hammond), Piano, Wind Instruments |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |