― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Everyone should own a copy of Queen of Siam.
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Head explodes.)
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Scott Seward, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Scott Seward, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
!!!!!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 06:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
(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-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:03 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
June 19th to 28th, exhibition of the best record sleeves from the label Ze Records to celebrate the release of the CD compilations Mutant Disco and NY No Wave.
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 90Fax: +33 1 55 35 33 99contact@colette.fr
Open monday - saturdayfrom 11am to 7pm. metro: Tuileries or Pyramides
press contact : press@colette.fr
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― jadrenos (jadrenos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link
― stirmonster, Sunday, 29 June 2003 19:53 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― jadrenos (jadrenos), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 24 October 2004 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Sunday, 24 October 2004 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone know what Lizzy's "Lost Album" is all about?
― Jeff K (jeff k), Monday, 27 March 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
The Essential...ZE
― jaxon, Friday, 4 September 2009 03:22 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Ze Christmas Album now on Spotify!http://open.spotify.com/album/0WpH6GZ7i1ItRVNsixBuxh
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:55 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
thank you, that is great!
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
sorry, 'new' = 2011 editions.
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Are the ZE reissues from ten years back out of print now?
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:08 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
just wanted to mark the start of the festive season by sayingThings Fall Apart >>>>> Christmas Wrapping
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 December 2023 23:56 (four months ago) link
oh speaking of xxxxpost Lizzy Mercier Descloux, good profile/advocacy: https://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9828-lizzy-mercier-descloux-behind-the-muse/
― dow, Sunday, 3 December 2023 01:36 (four months ago) link
that is awesome! going to cross post it to the lmd thread
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:33 (four months ago) link
ok lol it was posted there in 2018 and I replied to it back then. I still find the exuberant spirit of lizzy (especially on mambo Nassau) tremendous and overwhelmingly contagious
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:36 (four months ago) link