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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)

three years pass...

Ze Christmas Album now on Spotify!
http://open.spotify.com/album/0WpH6GZ7i1ItRVNsixBuxh

piscesx, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)

Rhapsody's always had it I think. (Just saying -- I'm biased, since I write for them.)

Wrote this too; guess I never linked to it here:

http://www.spin.com/articles/essentials-of-ze-records

xhuxk, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:43 (thirteen years ago)

thank you, that is great!

Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 04:06 (thirteen years ago)

nine months pass...

that ze edits disc sounds really cool. sorry it didn't actually happen- i really love the edit of spooks in space!

it got released.
picked up a cheap copy today.
its rather good.

mark e, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 12:52 (twelve years ago)

Ze is pretty well served by Spotify as the re-edits comp is up there too

piscesx, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:35 (twelve years ago)

well, have to say, i'm quite tempted to pick up the mutant disco comps now.

that edits comp totally hit the spot.

used to have early was not was on vinyl, and forgot how good they used to be before they hit the pop charts proper.

mark e, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:38 (twelve years ago)

how many mutant disco comps are there? I have a double cd, which I think is the first one?

mmmm, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:49 (twelve years ago)

seems that the original 2003 reissue of mutant disco was 2 cds which incorporated volume 1 and 2 (out the total of 4)

whereas the new editions have separated the releases.

mark e, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:57 (twelve years ago)

sorry, 'new' = 2011 editions.

mark e, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:57 (twelve years ago)

Ahh, okay, thanks. That makes sense as to what I can see for sale on Amazon. The later ones being remix/re-edits.

mmmm, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Mercier Descloux Rosa Yemen – Live In N.Y.C July 1978 (1978)
Press Color (1979)

Press Color has been reissued on Light in Attic

some coverage:

http://thequietus.com/articles/18663-lizzy-mercier-descloux-reissues-interview

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/a-new-reissue-illuminates-the-hidden-history-of-no-wave-pioneer-lizzy-mercier-descloux-7473354

curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 September 2015 14:07 (ten years ago)

Thanks for the news! Here's a brief archived-from-print-only review of her '06 Best Off (sorry for "ish," but at least it hadn't been so over-used back then, had it?)
http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

dow, Sunday, 20 September 2015 14:23 (ten years ago)

disco version of Arthur Brown's "Fire," punk-funky take on Mission Impossible, rewrite of "Fever" and more. I kinda like Press Color

curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 16:28 (ten years ago)

Are the ZE reissues from ten years back out of print now?

Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:08 (ten years ago)


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