Axel Bauer's first album "Les nouveaux seigneurs" was released in 1987 and was produced by Howard Gray (Scritti Politti, Simple Minds) and Dave Bascomb (Tears for Fears), it was mixed by a young engineer called Mark "Spike" Stent who's soon gonna become one of the world's most demanded engineers-mixers. The dark atmosphere of the album was loved by the critics but it still was not a great commercial success.