 By January 1998 The Alligators ended their contract with CBA agency, and started pre-production work on a new album, this time concentrating on original material.During the same period they increasingly often performed as a quartet, the original trio being augmented with Scandinavia's leading tenor saxophone player, Niels Mathiasen, an old friend from the Pekabilly days.By 1999, The Alligators were independent artists and very well known in the circles of Scandinavian music.