[3][4] Torsten went to Minneapolis and soon got into the rock scene but couldn't get away from that cities powerful funk movement led by Prince, The Time, André Cymone and others.
[3] They recruited their old skateboard pal Christian on drums, a neighbour on bass, Emrik's friend David on Moog and Prophet synthesizers, and Torsten switched to guitar.
In 1987 they were considered one of Gothenburg’s most energetic and exciting live bands and they recorded their first single, "Turn it Up", released in May 1988 on small indie label Radium.
[7] Drummer & percussion player Jean-Louis Huhta[8] also joined the band at this time, which resulted in more inspirations from the go-go of Washington D.C. (groups like Trouble Funk and EU).
The band decided to recruit rapper MC Cane (Marc Eastmond), with whom they recorded a brand new De La Soul-inspired new single entitled "Can U Follow".
[3] With MC Cane still the main rapper the band recorded the 12" single LPC (Lucky People Center), a celebration of percussionist Jean-Louis Huhta club nights[8] of the same name.
By this time MC Cane had left for a career in graphic design, and today works for one of Sweden's most prestigious and award-winning advertising agencies, Forsman & Bodenfors.
ADL had previously appeared in the videos for Bass Race and Can U Follow and added rap verses on two of the tracks on the Harder than Kryptonite remixes album.
[1][18] Guitar player and leader of the group, Torsten "Topsteen" Larsson, would go on and become a successful sound engineer and producer and in following years would work with such acts as Roxette, Olle Ljungström,.