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Ze 30 - Ze Records Story 1979-2009 (CD)

By: Various Artists

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DISC 1 for Ze 30 - Ze Records Story 1979-2009 (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Tell Me That I'm Dreaming [Traditional 12" Remix] - Was (Not Was) (remix)
2   Deputy Of Love - Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
3   Things Fall Apart - Cristina
4   Hard-Boiled Babe - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
5   Jukebox Babe - Alan Vega
6   Beat Goes On, The - Casino Music
7   Roving Eye - James Chance & The Contortions
8   Something Wrong In Paradise [Larry Levan Mix] - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (remix)
9   You Know What I Like - Sympho State
10   Bustin' Out [Seize The Beat Version] - Material - (featuring Nona Hendryx)
11   Maladie D'Amour - Aural Exciters
12   Dream Baby Dream [Long Version] - Suicide
13   What Can I Do For You - Michael Dracula
14   Re Bop Electronic - Les Garcons
 

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Review

Spin (p.91) - "A roadmap for groups like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and LCD Soundsystem, Ze was America's version of Factory Records, a place where art and dance met."

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No independent label of the post-punk era exemplified the convergence of widely divergent orbits of downtown New York's art and music scenes like ZE Records. Founded in 1978 by Oxford-educated scholar Michael Zilkha and French punk shop proprietor Michel Esteban, ZE's roster, a stark contrast to the then growingly conservative punk scene, was distinguished by its playful eclecticism and genre miscegenation. Listening to ZE 30 ZE RECORDS STORY 1979 - 2009, Strut's cherry-picked overview of the polymorphous ZE sound, one can trace the label's path as spiritual progenitors of `80s new wave. ZE's cheeky embrace of commercial elements--particularly in their assimilation of the recently declared-dead disco genre--while adhering to a defiantly anti-commercial agenda, certainly makes the case strong for their being one of the first post-modern music labels. Academic musings aside, it's the music that counts; and ZE released some of the weirdest, most memorable club music of the time. Music that holds up as some of the best examples of post-disco and proto-house ever produced. From the frenetic, punk-funk of James Chance's Contortions ("Roving Eye") to the calypso-flavored disco of Kid Creole & the Coconuts ("Something Wrong in Paradise") to Material's electro-jazz-rock fusions ("Bustin' Out"), on through to the rockabilly and funk appropriations Alan Vega and Was (Not Was), there really wasn't, or ever will be, another label quite like it.

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