Popular on club floors at the time, 'Moody” was sampled by house artists like Chicago’s Chip E. 'Moody', produced by Factory Records’ Martin Hannett, also responsible for Joy Division’s groundbreaking sound, was their first single. ESG (Emerald, Sapphire, and Gold) was formed by sisters Renee, Valerie, Deborah, and Marie Scroggins in the early '80s, and they possessed a rare ability to not only touch all of those underground scenes, but have an indelible impact on their development. The overlapping territory covered by post-punk and hip-hop-percussive, polyrhythmic, looped, sparse-is rarely occupied by one band that touches on all three in equal measure.
