EMF

EMF operated on the fringes of baggy in the early 1990s, cultivating a hyperactive, sample-ridden dance-rock hybrid that sounded vaguely related to the cacophonic racket of Madchester but emphasized heavier drumbeats and a stronger hip-hop influence. The latter may be the reason that EMF became one of the few British groups of their era to leapfrog across the Atlantic, scoring a number one hit in America with "Unbelievable," a psychedelic dance-rock single that peaked just months before Nirvana released Nevermind. The grunge revolution hit EMF particularly hard. Although they ...