ze records freaks - get ready to celebrate!

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.

!!!!!

(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)

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.

Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 90
Fax: +33 1 55 35 33 99
contact@colette.fr

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

press contact : press@colette.fr

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

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?)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

just wanted to mark the start of the festive season by saying

Things Fall Apart >>>>> Christmas Wrapping

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/

that is awesome! going to cross post it to the lmd thread

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