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 ...

Mutant disco from planet ZE. ... In 1982 The Face magazine, then an international arbiter of taste, declared ZE Records “the most fashionable label in the world”.

Mutant Disco, unfortunately, is out of print (though available through digital retailers). Ze 30 is a decent substitution, and is accompanied by great notes rife with first-person accounts of the ...

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 ...

Until Hallmark designates that day of peace and anticlimax, Parisian "mutant disco" label ZE offers two fitting carols from ZE Xmas Record Reloaded 2004, a record on which the resurrected label ...

ZE Records co-founder Michael Esteban confirmed Cristina’s death on Facebook last night. Cristina was 61. ... co-founder of the enormously important mutant-disco label ZE Records.

At the start of 1981, Ze had issued a compilation called Mutant Disco, a definitive statement of where New York music was at. Few people could have predicted that they would bookend it at the year’s ...

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 Designed to Kill: 8 Essentials of ...

1981 was a bad year for New York City. By the time the big red apple dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, reports of violent and property crime in the city had peaked at 1,214,935 (a ...

The band represented the Lower East Side No Wave movement's most energetic strain, embracing skittish funk grooves and eventually ZE Records-style mutant disco.

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 ...