ze records freaks - get ready to celebrate!

& 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.

Anyone know what Lizzy's "Lost Album" is all about?

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!

The Essential...ZE

slobber-worthy (both the ZE30 and the list in that article) but unlikely to win any new fans

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

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

thank you, that is great!

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.

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