ESG - ESG EP 12" Orig 99 Records 1981 Green Labels Radio Station Promo Fact 34
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RADIO STATION PROMO - comes w/ 99 records catalogue
It wasn't by design that, with their lean and lively style of funk, South Bronx band ESG affected post-punk, no wave, rap, and house music. They opened for Public Image Ltd. and A Certain Ratio, released records on the same label as Liquid Liquid, and became favorites of DJs who spun at groundbreaking dance clubs like the Paradise Garage and the Music Box. ESG simply aspired to play their music, straightforward in structure and yet utterly unique in character, and sell lots of records. They never approached commercial saturation, but copies of their 1981 debut reached the hands of rap producers who have sampled "UFO" several hundred times over. Even without the samples, ESG would remain a lasting inspiration to bands ranging from Luscious Jackson to the Dirtbombs, and they kept going -- performing and recording -- into the late 2000s
At another early gig, ESG opened for the Factory label's A Certain Ratio. The Scroggins sisters didn't know A Certain Ratio from A Tramp Shining, but Factory head Tony Wilson asked them if they'd like to record for his label. This resulted in You're No Good, a three-song single produced by Martin Hannett. The songs -- "You're No Good," "UFO," and "Moody" -- remain the group's best-known material, and are among the most thrilling songs to be associated with no wave, a New York scene with a deconstructive intent that contrasted sharply with that of ESG. The three songs were issued in the States on 99 with three live songs from a Hurrah's appearance. A year later, 99 issued another three-song single in the form of ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody. This proved to people too dear to Factory and the heavy hand of Hannett that the group had their own sound down. A debut album, Come Away with ESG, came in 1983 and continued in the vein of the previous releases.
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