Question: Of two electronic music groups, The Prodigy or Front 242, which group gained popularity earlier?

Context articles: Re-Boot: Live '98
No Comment (Front 242 album)
Glis
The Prodigy
Borghesia
Poésie Noire
Headhunter (song)
Front 242
ThefucKINGFUCKS
Mind:state

Re-Boot: Live '98 (also called Re:Boot or <nowiki>[:RE: BOOT]</nowiki>) is a live album from Front 242, released in 1998.
 This album stands in contrast to the band's previous live album "Live Code", in that many of its tracks are radical reworkings of the band's earlier songs.
 Front 242 has identified The Prodigy as an influence on the style of this album.
 A similar style is also used on the Front 242 live performance DVD, "Catch the Men".
No Comment is a 1984 Front 242 album released on the Another Side music label.
 The album was the first reference to Electronic Body Music (EBM)  when the band included the phrase "Electronic Body Music Composed And Produced On Eight Tracks By Front 242" in reference to their use of an 8-track recording device.
 Though the album was their second full-length album, the Belgian band had released several singles and EPs prior to No Comment.
 The clip of dialogue featured in the track "Special Forces" is from the movie "Apocalypse Now".
Glis was an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA.
 The band experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and instrumentalist.
 Notable guest, Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242, contributed vocals for two studio tracks on the album "Nemesis" in 2005.
 Glis began to use guitar as a production counterpoint on the album "Phoenix" in 2013.
The Prodigy are an English electronic music group from Braintree, Essex, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett.
 The first line-up of the band also included Maxim (MC and vocalist), Keith Flint (dancer and vocalist), Leeroy Thornhill (dancer and live keyboardist), and female dancer and vocalist Sharky.
 Along with The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
 Their style ranges from rave, hardcore techno, electro-industrial, jungle and breakbeat and big beat, adding punk vocal elements in later works.
Borghesia is a Slovenian electronic music/rock music group, created in Ljubljana in 1982.
 The band was formed by members of the alternative theatre group "Theatre FV-112/15".
 Borghesia created its aesthetics using the imagery of what was prohibited, tabooed, and repressed.
 Their sound is often compared to that of other groups in the period such as D.A.F., Manufacture, and Front 242, whom many cite as the chief instigators of the Electronic Body Music label used to describe such music.
Poésie Noire are a Belgian band that rose to prominence in the mid-'80s.
 Their Belgian origins and tendency to develop a goth-oriented, synthetic, gloomy universe with low-pitched voices - Poésie Noire could translate by ""Black/Dark Poetry"" - had them categorized as EBM such as other Belgian members of the 1980s electronic music scene like À;GRUMH... or A Split-Second.
 However, much in the manner of various renowned Belgian EBM bands like The Neon Judgement and, to some extent, Front 242, they declared, through their music,
"Headhunter" is a 1988 song by the Belgian EBM band Front 242.
 The song was a major hit in the electronic and industrial music scenes, and "Front By Front" subsequently became the top selling album in the history of Wax Trax!
 Records.
Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s.
 Pioneering the style they called electronic body music, they were a profound influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.
thefucKINGFUCKS is an underground Belgian industrial rock performance art group that began as a musical side-project for controversial visual artist Kendell Geers, Patrick Codenys of Front 242.
 From 2007 they collaborated with Choreographer / Performer Ilse Ghekiere from Charleroi Danses.
 but Ghekiere left in 2009 to pursue her solo career.
 The group was launched in April 2003 at the Pompidou Centre in Paris with a concert called "Prototype" under the name "Red Sniper".
 Since then, the group have performed in music festivals like Elektra Festival Electronic Festival in Montreal Canada, a concert called "10 Guests" curated by Revolting Cocks founding member Luc Van Acker, "Guided by Heroes" curated by Fashion Designer Raf Simons for Z33 in Hasselt and the Techno Music Festival 10DAYSOFF in Gent.
 Bootleg recordings of this concert are available for download on pirate torrent sites.
Mind:state is an electronic music one man act from Sweden that popped up in the late 1990s.
 Influenced by electronic bands like Front 242, Assemblage 23, KMFDM and also a wide range of metal bands such as Tiamat and Darkseed, Per Holmström creates electronic music that crosses between the lines of futurepop and darker industrial.