Listening to Ze 30, compiled by Ze's Michel Esteban and Strut Records' Quinton Scott, you might think that Ze was a pretty good label instead of a great one.You would be misled. It certainly isn't ...

Oftentimes, the best art is based on the simplest premises. “To me, music is music,” says ZE Records co-founder Michel Esteban. “I don’t make categories. I used to say, when I was younger ...

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene ...

Ze’s Christmas record had in fact already slipped out in the UK the previous year to limited attention, though the New York Times music critic Robert Palmer, reviewing 1981’s seasonal records, made it ...

By the end of the '70s, disco was turning rockier (think Prince, or Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff") new wave was turning dancier (think the B-52's, or Ian Dury's "H ...

The founder of record label Ze Records, Michael Zilkha, announces plans to launch its publishing arm, Ze Books, in the UK in April. ao link. Subscribe from less than £3.50 a week .