ze records freaks - get ready to celebrate!

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.

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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...

what an unnecessarily bitchy and untrue comment.

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

stir which suicide track did you re-edit?

Yep.

'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.

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.

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