Track Review: ESG "There Was a Time"



This track from the seminal Bronx band isn't new so much as newly available thanks to the kind compilers at UK label Soul Jazz Records (who also brought us the stellar first South Bronx Story collection). The track actually comes from a long out of print 1992 EP pointedly named Sample Credits Don't Pay Our Bills. At the time the Scroggins sisters' influence had begun to far outstrip their popularity, with rappers like the Beastie Boys and Big Daddy Kane jacking their ridiculous beats in the copyright free-for-all of early hip-hop. This seven minute dance floor magnet sounds more annoyed than angry, though, and not at beat pirates. Over their spaced out drum signature the girls take aim at a problem that's as of yet still uncured by litigation. "There was a time, when people would dance," goes the refrain. We can only assume the Rapture were out there on the floor during the early 80's Golden Age, killin' it in underoos, saving up memories from which to launch the same critque 15 years later.
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August 30, 2007 at 10:39 p.m.

i'd been wanting to hear this for a while...

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