Naked Eye was at the intersection of all these influences, it’s gamboling bass, Schellenbach’s looping snare and pristine chorus grafittiing the A-trains of your mind like Motown with a beehive cutting it up on twin Technics decks. But it was on their Daniel Lanois produced second album Fever In, Fever Out that the quartet’s free associative mix of hip-hop, funk and sixties pop coalesced impressively. With the addition of keyboard player Vivian Trimble and a deal with the Boys Grand Royal label, as an all female group named after a six foot ten basketball player at first DJ’s and promoters struggled to figure out exactly what they had on their hands.

Schellenbach – founding member of the Beastie Boys and who at the time had become part of the wraparound scene for all-girl punkers the Lunachicks – accepted on the spot and what to that point had been a cool idea became something flesh and blood. It was one of the more unlikely precepts on which to join a group, but when Jill Cunliff and Gabby Glaser offered drummer Kate Schellenbach the opportunity to sign up for Luscious Jackson, their carrot was that she would be joining a covers band whose repertoire would consist solely of material by experimental funkers ESG.