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― stirmonster, Monday, 24 March 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

wow, that no wave comp looks purrfect.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Hot damn! With this post stirmonster you are spoiling us.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

wow a site that i can't view because i don't have flash

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

try this: http://www.zerecords.com/homepage.php

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

Jon W. in inadequate browser shocker. I'm way too pleased by this.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

I *finally* installed the Flash plugin at home. But I use a text browser at work. People really need to make their sites work in text only. Disabled people use the internet too.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Holy cow! Christmas has come early.

http://www.zerecords.com/pictures/picture_86.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

they couldnt have done it at a more opportune time, i suppose

still: they're re-releasing mutant disco!!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

anyone know if lizzy mercier descloux's "press colour" lp is worth a listen? i got sniped last week on ebay for this record - if a reissue is coming then my knickers won't twist.
billy that cristina record is hot shit in a handbag!

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 24 March 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

yup, i think it's pretty good - sep. her covers of the mission ompossible theme and arthur brown's 'fire'

― stirmonster, Monday, 24 March 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

What would people recommend? I don't understand, what's this mean? A big deal? Can someone explain, a mini-primer, maybe?

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

Search Mutant Disco and the No Wave Comp I guess.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

hurrah hurrah hurrah

Cozen, I recommend:
'Contort yourself' - James White and the Blacks
'Is that all there is'/'Don't mutilate my mink' - Cristina

Is the Cristina record likely to be rereleased?

Does anyone think this'll lead to some huge revival or that'll be passed over by the musical majority? It is the logical next step after the kidz get bored with The ******s, after all.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

o yes!
btw: as i remember the cristina LP isn't all that (i sold it! o f**k!)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

The first two tracks on 'Sleep it off' make it all worthwhile but yeah the later few tracks are a bit droney. Anyone heard her first album?
any chance of one of you magazine chaps putting the access code for the press room on here (or emailing it)? Or d/ling all the pics, bios and articles and sticking it on here?

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

o double f**k i just looked at the ze site: i sold both the one with the elongated neck and the one with the her laying back, hands over ears. i is fool.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

or is that the inner sleeve? i forget. it was 20 years ago!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/airstructures/review%20newwave%20diva.html tells me that they're different albums, gaz.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

God I love the artwork on her stuff.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

it was crap Ian. There, that nakes me feel better (sob). her track on the Ze Christmas record (things fall apart) is one of my favourite songs ever!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

'things fall apart' is nowt when put next to 'disco clone' and 'ticket to the tropics'!
Were you into Ze first time round then, gaz?

(and I'd like to add 'bustin out' by Material to my list above - it's more disco than NoWave but it's one of yer best Ze releases)

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

yeah i was into it. i like bustin out fine. thats nona hendryx, yeah?
its nice to be reminded of this stuff, find people into it.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Well, well, well. After I went throught all that trouble of making a vinyl to mp3 CD of Sleep It Off for Sean! Ha. By the way, the last song, "He Dines out on Death", is brilliant.

Everyone should own a copy of Queen of Siam.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

and Suicide 2

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

I can't wait for some of this stuff! I had a bunch of Ze records way back when; I don't think I held onto anything. I even had Queen of Siam; man, you don't see too many copies of that around. I'm by no means a big Lydia Lunch fan, but if I recall that album had a few diverting moments. Hearing her bored drawl over those big-band horns was fun (fun?).

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, the one where she stalks the young guy.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

And "Carnival Fat Man"!!! Guy with Ridiculous Slowed-Down Voice #1: "I'm the fat man!" Guy with Ridiculous Slowed-Down Voice #2: "No, I'm the fat man!" Lydia: "Well, you both look pretty fat to me."

I used to always put that on the end of mixtapes.

Hey, Sean, can you send me your address again?

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Lydia Lunch makes me feel ill (that horrible phone call track on James White/Chance's second album).

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Good ill.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

Marcus Belgrave, Doug Fieger, and James Chance on the same record.

(Head explodes.)

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

back then the was bros were bill laswell with a sense of the absurd.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

I thought that the cover shot for "Sleep it Off" looked like Grace Jones's "Slave to the Rhythm' but AHA! they were both shot by Jean Paul Goude.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

My Boy Lollipop by Aural Invaders will forever be on my top ten list of singles to take on a desert island where the cabana boys are robots and computers dance with me on the veranda.I have played it at least 500 times and there is 500 times more where that came from. I love the Spooks In Space album too. I really do.It beats the Contortions hands down and tied with rope. And Lydia as well. Except for teenage jesus e.p. and 8 eyed spy of course cuz that album rulz and of course 1313 cuz that album rocks and the weirdos back her up which makes it 10Xcool+righton!!

― Scott Seward, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah I had 1313 too. Was I insane? Or would that more accurately describe my current condition? Also, I have meant to get "Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places" for what, 20 years now. Maybe I'll finally pick it up.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

OOps!! I meant Aural Exciters of course. I have space invaders on the brain or something. Must be the cybotron i'm listening to.

― Scott Seward, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

I have been looking for the Aural Exciters LP for ages: I do hope they reissue that one pronto. I bought "Sleep It Off" last month and thought it sounded rather tired.

I have heard Penman's sleevenotes for Mutant Disco called the worst ever. I think they're very fine indeed and look forward to laughing at them again in cutesy digipak format.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

This news has made me indescribably happy. I have instantly jumped on Paul Lester DEMANDING that I do these for Uncut!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

This could be good indeed. :-) Combine that with all the LTM reissues and let the excavations continue.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

**I have instantly jumped on Paul Lester**

!!!!!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

oh dave, behave!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

SO any magazine guys gonna unleash the Ze Press Room shit on us?

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

of course not, its pancultural populist dance music aimed at the very few.

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 06:46 (twenty years ago) link

Props dished out to whoever mentioned Aural Exciters - I got 'Paradise' off Ssk and mmm yeah, pisstakey messy girl group nastiness. Opening 5 seconds of it are my favourite ever.

(I meant, will any of the haughty magazine writers in here use their powers to get access to the Press Room on the Ze site and deign to share their wares with us nothings - looks like a big hollow NO though)

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Sunday, 30 March 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

soo... any news yet? i haven't seen anything in the shops.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link

whet ze appetite

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link

whoops i was referring to the "new" releases slated for may 03.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been waiting on this too, neither of those comps are out over here.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still waiting for my review copies as well :-(

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

just spotted this thread - i am very happy and prepared to be patient. it's still may, after all.

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Skipping 18 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

that place looks great!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― etc, Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

do people still "do" poppers?

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

do people still "do" poppers?

Yep.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ah, the lovely smell of "room aroma."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh. once was enuff.

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

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

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

The Essential...ZE

― jaxon, Friday, 4 September 2009 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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

― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:55 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

thank you, that is great!

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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

― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:35 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

sorry, 'new' = 2011 editions.

― mark e, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:57 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:08 (seven years ago) link

Sadly, yes. You can still get Mutant Disco Vols 1-4 (the 2011 reissues) though.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:20 (seven years ago) link

seven years pass...

Contort yourself! The mutant disco mayhem of New York’s Ze Records

Ze reborn as a publishing house.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/16/contort-yourself-the-mutant-disco-mayhem-of-new-yorks-ze-records

― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 March 2023 22:53 (two weeks ago) link

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