Contort yourself! The mutant disco mayhem of New York’s Ze Records Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands.

Mutant disco from planet ZE Seventies’ post punk found expression in an influential record label that was way too cool for school.

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 ...

Six years ago, the revived imprint (still operating, though in a relatively limited capacity) released their greatest blurts in a four-volume set misleadingly labeled Mutant Disco —substituting ...

Mutant disco label ZE offers this Christmas hangover cure as underground funk and new wave luminaries like Suicide's Alan Vega, James White, Cristina, and the Waitresses celebrate the birth of ...

She was writing for the Village Voice in New York when she met Michael Zilkha, co-founder of the enormously important mutant-disco label ZE Records. The label’s first release was Cristina’s ...

Spector’s Christmas album was released on November 22, 1963. That morning, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the start of 1981, Ze had issued a compilation called Mutant Disco, a definitive ...

Don Armando’s 2nd Ave Rhumba Band Don Armando’s 2nd Ave Rhumba Band (ZE, 1979) Think of this as the missing link between Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band (the lush, ’40s-swing/disco ...

Luckily, the “anyone” in this case was the motley roster of ZE Records, the haven of mutant disco and no-wave overseen by tastemakers Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban.

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.

Such ideas produced Ze’s “mutant disco”, a pioneering hybrid of punk and dance. Music and books have always been Zilkha’s core passions.

Six years ago, the revived imprint (still operating, though in a relatively limited capacity) released their greatest blurts in a four-volume set misleadingly labeled Mutant Disco —substituting ...