MUTANT # 2 A SUBTLE DISCOLATION OF THE NORM

01 • Cristina • Disco Clone • 4:10 02 • Coati Mundi • Que Pasa / Me No Pop I • 6:23 03 • Kid Creole & The Coconuts • I’m a Wonderfull Thing Baby • 6:15 04 • Was (Not Was) • Out Come The Freaks • 7:11 05 • • Fire • 5:16 06 • Aural Exciters • Spooks in Space (Discomix) • 5:44 07 • Was (Not Was) • Tell Me That I’m Dreaming • 5:03 08 • Caroline Loeb • Narcissique • 3:36 09 • The Waitresses • I Know What Boys Like • 3:16 10 • Lizzy Mercier Descloux • Mission Impossible • 2:37 11 • Marie & Les Garçons • Re Bop Electronic • 2:55 12 • Garçons • French Boy Disco Edit • 5:10 13 • Casino Music • Faites Le Proton • 5:18

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For ZE hinted at all those possibilities, suggested that extreme sounds could fill dancefloors, that inventiveness did not mean playing to a dozen people in a dusty pub back room. It was almost too much to live up to, but the dream, the aspiration, was everything. It was as Suicide were singing: It’s all you got you know, your dreams. Keep them burning ? forever. Yes, in 1981, people like Ian Penman, Paul Morley, and Robert Elms were writing about new torch songs on a par with Cry Me A River and Fever. But people like and were making dreams come true with these new torch songs. And it would not have mattered if no one was listening or nobody danc- ing. The Mutant Disco show would have carried on regardless. In over 20 years, the world has changed a lot. Original copies of that Disco Dub Band single now change hands for small fortunes, and Davitt Sigerson went on to record two LPs for ZE appropri- ately enough, and more strangely to be Chief Executive of EMI.. Yet, the urge to let our imaginations run riot, and the need to dance to twisted sounds remain.

THE MUTANT DISCO, THE HAUNTED DANCEHALL, WILL NEVER CLOSE DOWN.

Kevin Pearce London, March 2003

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Art Cover from original work by Bruno-Cristian Tilley Booklet & Desing by Michel Esteban

Photos credits : Page 5 Was (Not Was) by Robert Matheu / Page 7 : Kid Creole by George DuBose:com/ Page 8 : Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban / Page 10 Anya Phillips and James White by Maripol / Page 8 : Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Edo. www.zerecords.com ZE Records Dissident Since 1978