Ze 30 - Ze Records Story 1979

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Various / Ze 30 - Ze Records Story 1979
Genre: music4me > Dance > Disco
Format: CD Album
Released: Mon 27 Jul 2009
Catalogue Number: STRUT047CD

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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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Track Listing:

1.  Tell Me That I'm Dreaming [Traditional 12
2.  Deputy of Love
3.  Things Fall Apart
4.  Hard-Boiled Babe
5.  Jukebox Babe
6.  Beat Goes On
7.  Roving Eye
8.  Something Wrong in Paradise [Larry Levan Mix]
9.  You Know What I Like
10.  Bustin' Out [Seize the Beat Version]
11.  Maladie d'Amour
12.  Dream Baby Dream [Long Version]
13.  What Can I Do for You
14.  Re Bop Electronic

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