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colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris - France

Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 90
Fax: +33 1 55 35 33 99
[email protected]

Open monday - saturday
from 11am to 7pm.
metro: Tuileries or Pyramides

press contact : [email protected]

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...
Well, the people at Colette were exaggerating a bit with exhibition: it was just a few record sleeves stuck on the wall as you come up the stairs. But they were nice record sleeves.

The N.Y. No Wave and Mutant Disco compilations are good too, but I haven't heard the Aural Exciters release yet.

jadrenos (jadrenos), Saturday, 28 June 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

.. am unexpectedly liking the N.Y. No Wave more than the Mutant Disco so far.

jadrenos (jadrenos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*spam* check the ze records homepage for some groovy audio *cough*

stirmonster, Sunday, 29 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

where are they selling this stuff?

i checked all the usual suspects (amoeba, forced exposure & aquarius) but found nothing. they don't even sell them on the ze records site (or do they?)

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

like you need anymore new music to listen to anyway...

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ahem, stir, *cough*

frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax!, shut up and plan my wedding music.

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*whimpers*

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I got mine from
Colette
in Paris.

jadrenos (jadrenos), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...
i finally got mutant disco

  • i had to go all the way to france to get it
  • it is good

JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(I got mine a few days ago from Amazon UK)

Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, that ZE Records newsroom stuff. It's not that great after all. But I'm sharing it on Ssk if anyone fancies grabbing it and uploading it somewhere to be linked to.

Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...
Ok, so after the REVELATION that was the Lizzy reissues, Was (Not Was) gets the deluxe CD reissue treatment. Two new albums: Out Come The Freaks (let's call it 'red', per the sleeve colour, for easy identification) and Woodwork Squeaks ('blue'). They're clearly intended to be a pair, with identical cover images, and with the sleevenotes to red even referring to a track on blue.

Red is the debut LP, with 'Wheel Me Out (long)' restored to (its intended place in?) the running order. You also get both the sequels to 'Out Come the Freaks' from the second and third Was albums and two other mixes of same, plus the 12" remix of 'Tell Me That I'm Dreaming', 'Hello Operator... (short)' and the brilliant 'Christmas Time in Motor City' - the angriest Christmas song ever?

The remastered red sounds incredible, really trebly and glossy like the Mutant Disco reissue. There are lots of sibilants on the recording and they were rather exposed on my old vinyl copy (probably cos it's worn out!); on the CD they're just perfect. Modern ears might find it a bit lacking at the bottom end (and there does seem to be a little less bass than I remember - the vocal on 'The Sky's Ablaze' sounds almost like a different person!) but I guess you can always turn up the bass on your system if you want. You can also hear loads more detail in the mix - as an aside, listening to this I was thinking how much better Kish Kash would have been if Basement Jaxx had got someone like Don Was to produce it instead of doing it themselves.

Blue is (more or less) the original 6-track compilation, bolstered by several more remixes of 'Out Come The Freaks' and 'Tell Me That I'm Dreaming' - one has to ask how many versions you need. It does have the definitive (long) version of 'Hello Operator...' and one other track I don't have/know ('White People Can't Dance'), but this one may be for the raving ZE completists only.

I can't recommend red highly enough, however.

Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

was not was not was.

who can tell me some more things about michael dracula? I heard their prospective producer wanted £20k to produce the album. is this lots? I heard they seemed to think this was lots. people were drunk when they heard the things they then made me hear. when is their debut out? are ze going to sign more people or are MD a one off? I really like their name each time I hear it.

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...
On the eve of the Cristina reissues, I'd just like to reiterate how good the Ze site is. As well as all the artwork, they've put up archival reviews of lots of the original releases. I was just reading Robert Christgau's somewhat dismissive appraisals of the Zetrospective compilations.

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wow - and there's a third 'Mutant Disco' disc coming out too:

Mutant Disco #3: #3 : Garage Sale


01 • RON ROGERS •
Yaya • 3:48
02 • DON ARMANDO •
I¹m an Indian, Too • 3:22
03 • COATI MUNDI •
Sey Hey • 4:06
04 • WAS (NOT WAS) •
Man VS The Empire Brain Building • 3:58
05 • SNUKY TATE •
He¹s the Grove • 6:09
06 • AURAL EXCITERS •
Maladie d¹Amour • 5:33
07 • SWEAT PEA ATKINSON •
Dance or Die • 6:33
08 • RON ROGERS •
Naughty boy • 5:09
09 • ALAN VEGA •
Outlaw Remix by August Darnell • 5:14
10 • A THOUSAND POINTS OF NIGHT •
Read my Lips • 5:54
11 • JUNIE MORRISON •
Techno-Fréqs • 5:54
12 • DAISY CHAIN •
No Time to Stop Believing in Love • 5:50
13 • KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS •
Something Wrong in Paradise - Larry Levan Remix • 4:56
14 • CRISTINA •
What a Girl to Do Remix • 4:20
15 • SUICIDE •
Dream Baby Dream - Long Version • 6:20

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

there was going to be a 'ze edits' triple lp where folk like the idjut boys, chicken lips, ashley beadle etc, re edited their fave ze tracks but it seems to have been aborted. everyone involved seemed to have plumped for kid creole re edits while i had re edited aural exciters, material and suicide.

stirmonster, Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

on what record is the Kid Creole version of There But For the Grace of God? I heard it recently at a party I threw with some friends ( http://www.alldisco.net ) and was blown away...

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

that place looks great!

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't know about originally, Dan, but it's on this cheapo Kid Creole compilation . I want to hear this!

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

that's just an approximation of our party. there's considerably less people, dancing, lights, music and fun.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh - the origins of the KC&TC version are discussed on this thread:

Machine's 1979 s/t album: C/D?

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have any Garcons or Aural Exciters stuff on Soulseek besides the tracks on Mutant Disco?

Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 24 October 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

that new mutant disco comp looks good - ooh, larry levan rmx of kc+tc!

etc, Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening to the first Cristina album now. Great stuff.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, cristina did "when u were mine"?!?!

& there's a christmas album! & a covers album! lizzy mercier descloux doing "let's get it on"!

etc, Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

cristina is rad. i was vamping around my room to "is that all there is" last night.

paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
Revive! Going a bit ZE crazy right now, Haven't yet grabbed the Cristina reissues, but I did finally pick up Mutant Disco while--ahem--busting out my copies of those Kid Creole discs that were reissued in 2002 -- not brought back via ZE for some reason, but really well done nonetheless. Fresh Fruit's hidden masterstroke has to be "Schweinerei" -- over a reggae beat, the lilting female refrain, spacey Benny Goodman clarinet and that "Never give up! Never give up!" chorus. And it apparently means "rascality, smut or swinishness" in German!

So has anyone heard those Under Cover or Garage Sale comps yet? As noted above, they sound compelling...

Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 2 January 2005 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard a couple of tracks from the Garage Sale disc. It's nowhere near as good as the first Mutant Disco comp, sounding more like a "forgotten songs of the '80s" album, but maybe I just heard the wrong songs.

Vic Funk, Sunday, 2 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
New news! More Lizzy reissues and Michael Dracula album and single finally coming out! I'm wondering what they're going to do with Rosa Yemen, though...I thought there was just the one EP that's already on the Press Color reissue?

Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 26 March 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I love how a band that 2 people in their own country care about can get a record.

jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 26 March 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

That's ... an awful lot of Lizzy Mercier Descloux.

Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I love how a band that 2 people in their own country care about can get a record.

what an unnecessarily bitchy and untrue comment.

stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 26 March 2006 04:52 (twenty years ago)

That's ... an awful lot of Lizzy Mercier Descloux.

But not too much. Because there is no such thing. The very idea is utterly laughable.

Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 26 March 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)

hope they reissue the alan vega solo records somewhere down the line.

stir which suicide track did you re-edit?

haitch (haitch), Sunday, 26 March 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Poppers by Michael Dracula is one of my favorite songs of the last 5 years.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

do people still "do" poppers?

m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

do people still "do" poppers?

Yep.

Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

stir which suicide track did you re-edit?

'dream baby dream'. in hindsight i'm kind of glad it didn't come out as the original is so perfect that it should be left well alone.

stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

ah, the lovely smell of "room aroma."

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

ugh. once was enuff.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I know nothing about all these Lio reissues, are they any good?

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Michael's Lio question seconded. There's almost no writing on Lio (at least, not in English) anywhere online that I can find.

Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm psyched for all the lizzy mercier descloux reissues that i don't already have! i love her music. i really regret not interviewing her before she died. i went to the memorial service in new york that richard hell and some other people put on for her at cbgb's.

back when i worked at the village voice, i would walk down the bowery from the subway station on my way to work each day, and always pass by this tiny smudged black-and-white photo of her, partly obscured by stickers and scraps of old flyers, that somebody had pasted along the bottom of a post office drop-off box. about a month ago i tried to find it; i don't think it's there anymore.

geeta (geeta), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, am happy that ONE FOR THE SOUL will finally be available at an affordable price. It's also been nearly impossible to find. Now I can finally replace the MP3's I have of it.

Anyone know what Lizzy's "Lost Album" is all about?

Jeff K (jeff k), Monday, 27 March 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
this music is really, really wonderful.

where can i read a good history of ze records? that ze edits disc sounds really cool. sorry it didn't actually happen- i really love the edit of spooks in space!

theghostrobot (theghostrobot), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

As mentioned in LMD thread, the "Zulu Rock" reissue is ace and is making me insanely happy at the moment.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The Essential...ZE

jaxon, Friday, 4 September 2009 03:22 (sixteen years ago)

slobber-worthy (both the ZE30 and the list in that article) but unlikely to win any new fans

picked up the sneer-slack (sciolism), Friday, 4 September 2009 07:57 (sixteen years ago)


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