Symmetehoun: Dimos Anastasiadis, Stamatis Gonidis, Hristos Dantis, Vasilis Karras, Nikos Makropoulos, Hristos Menidiatis, Dimitris Mitropanos, Dimitris Mpasis, Giorgos Ntalaras, Paola, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Giorgos Papadopoulos, Elena Paparizou, PYX LAX, Stelios Rokkos, Sakis Rouvas, Giorgos Sampanis, Tamta, Hristos Holidis, Goin' Through, Onirama, Stavento. Ena mousiko taxidi sto ergo tou Manou Xydous (vasiko melos ton Pyx Lax) i allios "Prigkipa tis dytikis ohthis" opos haraktiristika ton apokalousan oi filoi tou, kykloforei apo tin Minos Emi / Universal. Mousikos paragogos, synthetis, stihourgos kai ermineutis, o Manos Xydous haraxe tin diki tou monadiki poreia stin istoria tis mousikis kai einai ypeuthynos gia polla diamantia tis Ellinikis kai diethnous diskografias. O idios stis arhes tis dekaetias tou '80 me to sygkrotima Dreamer and the Full Moon kai to tragoudi "Sandrina", vrethike stis protes theseis ton Europaikon charts me poliseis pano apo 50.000 antitypa sto exoteriko. Os paragogos doulepse mazi me tous Paulo Sidiropoulo, Mousikes Taxiarhies, OPA, Milto Pashalidi, Gianni Harouli, Jethro Tull, Scorpions, Ian Gillan (Deep Purple). Ehei synergastei me ton Giorgo Ntalara grafontas to emporikotero cd single tis ellinikis mousikis "Mia vradia sto Leverkouzen", tous Hari & Pano Katsimiha, ton Dimitri Mitropano, ton Vasili Papakonstantinou, ton Pashali Terzi, ton Vasili Karra, tin Sotiria Leonardou, ton PSarantoni kai pollous allous. Apo ton horo tou xenou repertoriou me tous: Ian Gillan, Sting, Eric Burdon (Animals), Gordon Gano (Violent femmes), Marc Almond, Steve Wynn, I Muvrini. Itan enas anthropos tapeinos, praos, akomplexaristos kai tha ton akolouthoun panta i glykytita kai to vathos tou san kallitehnis alla kai sas anthropos. To 1989 os stelehos tis Minos Emi anelave tin paragogi ton protoemfanizomenon Pyx Lax kai meta apo ligo kairo symmetehei o idios os vasiko tous melos, grafontas kai tragoudontas polla apo ta pio gnosta, dimofili kai laikotropa tragoudia tous. Mia antiprosopeutiki epilogi auton ton epityhion tou Manou Xydous (Astin na leei, Lene gia mena, Hathikes Alitissa, Poula me k.a.), emperiehontai sto album "Manos Xydous o Prigkipas tis Dytikis Ohthis". Mia idiaiteri syllogi tragoudion me skopo na akoustei kai na matheutei kai sto eury koino alla kai stous neoterous, ena meros tou ergou tou Manou me ena laiko tropo, ton opoio ehei ypostirixei poly kai o idios. O Manos itan panta yper tis apopsis pos to rok kai to laiko mporoun na synyparhoun poly omorfa kai dimiourgika. Den ton enoiaze toso poios tha tragoudisei ta tragoudia tou alla pos! Dekaexi nees ekteleseis loipon apo poly dimofileis ermineutes, ena kainourio tragoudi apo ton Niko Makropoulo (Pes mou ti ekana) kathos kai treis yparhouses ekteleseis. Synolika 20 tragoudia se auti tin pliri mousiki syllogi pou apotinei foro timis ston Mano Xydous. -Minos-EMI-
