Mutant Disco # 1 a Subtle Discolation of the Norm

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01 • Was ( Not Was) • Wheel Me Out • 7:08 02 • Material & Nona Hendryx • Bustin’Out • 6:40 03 • Cristina • Drive My Car • 3:21 04 • Kid Creole & The Coconuts • Annie I’m Not Your Daddy • 6:30 05 • Aural Exciters • Emile (Night Rate) • 6:48 06 • James White & The Blacks • Contort Yourself • 6:18 07 • Lizzy Mercier Descloux • Funky Stuff • 4:12 08 • Garçons • French boy • 3:08 09 • Don Armando’s 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band • Deputy Of Love • 5:29 Featuring Fonda Rae 10 • Gichi Dan • Cowboys & Gansters • 7:28 11 • Cristina • Blame It On The Disco • 7:57 12 • Garçons • Encore l’Amore • 8:55

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In 1976 a record was released which could have changed the world. It was by the Disco Dub Band; on the Movers label; an extreme reworking of the O’Jays’ For The Love of Money. Ar- ranged and produced by journalist Davitt Sigerson, it featured steals of James Brown guitar motifs, free jazz traces, and stripped down, dubbed out disco. Its reverberations would be felt for many years.

Five years on, consciously or not, it could certainly be felt haunting the dancehall that was home to ZE’s Mutant Disco revolution. ZE by that time was ready to burst overground in a riot of colour. A perverse over-the-top Hollywood musical spectacular to complement the grainier, underground pop that could equate to the black and white French new wave films of tortured New York noir novels.

So, Mutant Disco acknowledged that disco music circles were creating sounds as absurdly adventurous and radical as anything emerging from those fighting rock orthodoxy with more traditional instrumentation. We now know of course that disco alchemists like Arthur Russell and Larry Levan, labels like West End and Prelude, to use ZE’s own words subtly discolated the norm in as spectacular way as say The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio, Rough Trade and Factory. What it boiled down to was that imaginations could soar and people could dance. The two were an irresistible force. The same as it ever was. ZE just gave us the best of all possible worlds, and opened up all sorts of new vistas.

ZE’s original Mutant Disco compilation came after the label’s first few years of quiet artistic defiance, steadily releasing records from the US and French underground resistance. By 1981, however, ZE’s records had caught the imaginations of the hungry pop press and dar- ing DJs; and there was no turning back. And like any Hollywood spectacular, ZE had its own superstar-in-waiting in August Darnell. The pop press twisted itself inside out to find the right words to pay homage, and Darnell’s Kid Creole persona lit up the pop sky. It’s easy now to forget this man co-created the greatest disco song ever in Machine’s There But For The Grace Of God Go I, and wrote the Aural Exciters’ Emile (Night Rate), which was down- beat dub disco ten years before Massive Attack.

Darnell’s fingerprints were all over ZE. It’s impossible not to play join-the-dots with the broad brush of Mutant Disco, and trace connections. Some of the artists involved with ZE went on to record and produce many a thing elsewhere. Myself, I thought some like Was (Not Was) and Material never produced anything as glorious and life affirming as their contributions here. Material’s Busting Out, with Nona Hendryx on vocals links us back to Labelle and hence Laura Nyro ! the original New York poet-princess creating unique pop by paying her debts to inventive black dance music.

ZE had its own unique contenders to be New York’s disco queen in Cristina and Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Exotic and quixotic, sexy and sassy, as they were, it’s impossible not to imagine Madonna waiting in the wings taking notes ahead of the pop perfection of Holiday, Into The Groove, and Like A Virgin. And it seems only natural that the works of French disco experimentalists Garçons should be collated for Other Records by A Man Called Adam, unsung UK techno adventurers with a fevered imagination ZE would have approved of. Per- haps more than any other Mutant Disco artifact, the Aural Exciters’ record features a special spider’s web of links and lineages. Besides, the aforementioned August Darnell connections, the record was a side project of Bob Blank, ZE’s in-house studio scientist and a man who can boast of being involved with Sun Ra’s immortal Lanquidity set. The Aural Exciters also featured Taana Gardner, who later song on Heartbeat, her awesome West End disco classic, and Pat Place the sometime Contortion and Bush Tetra. It is irresistible to mention the Mutant Disco records she would produce with the Bush Tetras for labels like 99 and Fetish, homes to legends like ESG, 23 Skidoo, Clock DVA, and Liquid Liquid.

Her Contortions’ band leader James Chance (or James White) played a part too in the Aural Exciters, and no excuse is needed to mention his signature tune Contort Yourself. It has everything: the twisted James Brown guitar motifs, the free jazz colour, the taut minimal funk, and tortured screams. It was a record so extreme it would utterly inspire Edinburgh’s Fire Engines to create a new pop form. And ZE would ultimately destroy new pop groups like the Fire Engines. MUTANT DISCO BOX SET

01 • WAS ( NOT WAS) • Wheel Me Out • 7.08 07 • LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX • Funky Stuff • 4:12 Written by Donald Was & David Was. Published by Island Music Ltd. Written by Kool & the Gang. Arranged by Mercier Descloux & Steve Stanley. Produced by Donald Was & David Was. Remix Version. Published by Universal Music. From the original WAS (NOT WAS) album « The Woodwork Squeaks. Produced by Steve Stanley & Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980. From the original album « Mambo Nassau ». Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980. 02 • MATERIAL & NONA HENDRYX • Bustin’Out • 6.40 Written by Laswell / Beinhorn / Maher/ Hendrix / Scott / Draton. 08 • GARÇONS • French boy • 3:08 Published by Cri Cri music / Mez. Written By Vidal / Fitoussi. Published by E sound. Produced by Material & Martin Bisi . Mixed By Tee Scott. Produced by Michel Esteban & Michael Zilkha. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

03 • CRISTINA • Drive My Car • 3.21 09 • DON ARMANDO’S 2ND AVE. RHUMBA BAND • Deputy Of Love • 5.29 Written by Lennon / Mc Cartney. Published by Norther Song. Featuring Fonda Rae Produced by August Darnell & Michael Zilkha. Written By Ron Rogers. Published by Chapell Music. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980. Produced by August Darnell & Andy Hernandez. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979. 04 • KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS • Annie I’m Not Your Daddy • 6.30 Written by August Darnell. Published by Cri Cri Music . 10 • GICHY DAN BEACHWOOD ≠9 • Cowboys & Gansters • 7.28 Produced by August Darnell. Remix version. Written By Ron rogers. Published by Chapell Music. From the original album « Tropical Gansters ». Produced by Ron Rogers. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1982. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

05 • AURAL EXCITERS • Emile (Night Rate) • 6:48 11 • CRISTINA • Blame It On The Disco • 7.57 Written by August Darnell. Published by Unichapell Music Written by August Darnell. Published by Cri Cri Music. Produced by Bob Blank. Mixed by Tom Savarese. Produced by August Darnell Arranged By “Sugar Coated” Andy Hernandez. From the original album « Spooks In Space » Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979. 12 • GARÇONS • Encore l’Amore • 8.55 06 • JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS • Contort Yourself • 6:18 Written By Vidal / Fitoussi. Published by E sound . Writen by James Siegfried. Published by Copastatic BMI / Zem Sound. Produced by Michel Esteban & Michael Zilkha. Unreleased Italian version. Produced by James White. Remixed By August Darnell. From the session of the original album « Divorce ». From the original album « Off White » Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

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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 • Lizzy Mercier Descloux • 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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13 • CRISTINA • Disco Clone • 4.10 Written by Ronald Melrose. Published by Rabbit Rabbit Music company (BMI). Produced by Michaek Zilkha,Bob Blank & Cristina. Male Guest Vocal : Kevin Kline Mixed by Chris Blackwell. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1978.

15 • KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS • I’m A wonderfull Thing Baby • 6.15 Written by August Darnell & Peter S.Schott. Published by Cri Cri Music & Schott in the Dark Music . Produced by August Darnell. Remix version . From the original album « Tropical Gansters ». Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1982.

16 • WAS (NOT WAS) • Out Come The Freaks • 7.11 Written by Donald Was & David Was. Published by Island Music Ltd. Produced by Donald Was & David Was. Remix Version. From Was (No Was) original debut album. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1981.

17 • LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX • Fire • 5.16 Written By Brown/Crane. Published by Essex Music International. Produced by Mercier Descloux, Esteban & Elliasson. Mixed by Tom Savarese. From the original album « Press Color » Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

18 • AURAL EXCITERS • Spooks in Space (Discomix) • 5.44 Written by Ron Rogers. Published by Zem Sound. Produced by Bob Blank. Mixed by Tom Savarese. From the original album « Spooks In Space » Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

19 • WAS (NOT WAS) • Tell Me That I’m Dreaming • 5.03 Written by Donald Was & David Was. Published by Island Music Ltd. Produced by Donald Was & David Was. From Was (No Was) original debut album. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1981. 20 • CAROLINE LOEB • Narcissique • 3.36 Written by Caoline Loeb & Ron Rogers. Published by Universal Music. Produced by Ron Rogers. From the original album « Piranana ». Edited by Charlus de la Salle.Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1983.

21 • THE WAITRESSES • I Know What Boys Like • 3.16 Written by Chris Butler. Published by Cri Cri Music/ Merovingian Music. Produced by Kurt Munkacsi & Chris Butler. From the original album « Wasn’t Tomorow Wonderfull ? ». Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980.

22 • LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX • Mission Impossible • 2.37 Written By Lalo Schifrin. Published by Chapell Music Produced by Mercier Descloux, Esteban & Elliasson. Mixed by Tom Savarese. From the original album « Press Color » Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

23 • GARÇONS • Re Bop Electronic • 2.55 Written By Vidal / Fitoussi. Arranged by Alan Wentz. Published by Emi Music . Produced by Michel Esteban & Michael Zilkha. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

24 • GARÇONS • French Boy Disco Edit • 5.10 Written By Vidal / Fitoussi. Arranged by Alan Wentz. Published by E sound . Produced by Michel Esteban & Michael Zilkha. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

25 • CASINO MUSIC • Faites Le Proton • 5.18 Written By Gilles Riberoles. Published by ZE Multimedia Music . Produced by Christ Stein. Mixed by Chris Blackwell. From the original album « Jungle Love ». Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979.

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 Alan Vega and August Darnell were making dreams come true with these new torch songs. And it would not have mattered if no one was listening or nobody dancing. 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

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 MUTANT DISCO # 3 GARAGE SALE

01 • Ron Rogers • Yaya • 3:48 02 • Don Armando 2nd Av. Rhumba Band • I’m an Indian, Too • 3:22 03 • Coati Mundi • Sey Hey • 4:06 04 • Was (Not Was) • Man VS The Empire Brain Building • 3:58 05 • Snuky Tate • He’s the Grove • 6:09 06 • Aural Exciters • Maladie d’Amour • 5:33 07 • Sweet Pea Atkinson & Was (Not Was) • Dance or Die • 6:33 08 • Ron Rogers • Naughty Boy • 5:09 09 • Alan Vega • Outlaw Remix by August Darnell • 5:14 10 • A Thousand Points of Night / Was (Not Was • Read my Lips • 5:54 11 • Junie Morrison • Techno-Fréqs • 5:54 12 • Daisy Chain • No Time to Stop Believing in Love • 5:50 13 • Kid Creole & The Coconuts • Something Wrong in Paradise Larry Levan Remix • 4:56 14 • Cristina • What a Girl to Do Remix • 4:20 15 • Suicide • Dream Baby Dream Long Version • 6:20

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It is probably difficult to imagine that Club culture was born in a small underground room in the Latin quarter of Paris during the period of German occu- pation in the Second World War. The Nazis had prohibited jazz and closed the Clubs where musicians performed thus forcing music lovers to meet in secret in cellars to listen to their favorite music on 78s. One such place was on Rue de la Huchette and was known as “La Discothèque”. Historically this was the first time that the name was used to designate a club where people could go to listen to recorded music.

Next came the “Whiskey a Go-Go” created by Paul Racine, which introduced the concept of a public dancing on a dance floor to music played by “Disc- Jockeys” with two turntables. Racine developed his concept throughout Eu- rope. When Régine opened her first club “Chez Régine” in Paris in 1960 this was frequented by the American jet set and immediately inspired “Le Club” in New York, quickly followed by the “Peppermint Lounge” in 1961. The rest is history!

In 1981, when ZE Records first published the vinyl LP “Mutant Disco” there were only 6 tracks on it. In 2003, when I decided to relaunch the label that Michael Zilkha and myself founded in New York in 1978, I transformed this mini album into a double Digipack CD with 25 tracks. It was as if Mutant Dis- co had become a style of its own in which musicians from different cultures and nationalities could find common ground. Between 1978 and 1983 in New York City, music from a wide range of styles developed based on a common denominator – you could dance to it.

COATI MUNDI The title of “Garage” comes from “Paradise Garage”, the now mythical club at 84 King Street, which was one of the focal points for New York gay and disco culture for 10 years (1977-1987). The turntables were under the mag- ic touch of Larry Levan, one of the pioneers of NY Dance Music that some began calling Garage, while his childhood friend Frankie Knuckles did pret- ty much the same in Chicago where certain began to call his style House music.

I have never really been too fond of labels, which are often stuck on for mar- keting purposes in order to sell more products. I have always believed that there is good music and the rest… The ZE Records back catalogue is proof of the eclectic approach that Michael Zilkha and myself have in our musical tastes. For an adolescent who had the privilege of growing up in the 60s there is no difference between James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sly Stone, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimmy Hendrix, nor between Norman Whitfield, Brian Wilson or Phil Spector.

Larry Levan also promoted open and eclectic musical sources and many DJs today have drawn inspiration from this. The Sound System at Paradise Garage developed by Larry and Richard Long was reputed to be the best in NY. Many producers would test their mixes on the dance floor at the Ga- rage. Many of the remixes at ZE, especially those by August Darnell were first played at the Garage before being produced. Larry remixed for August and KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS: Something Wrong in Paradise, (...) which certainly has its place in this third volume of MUTANT DISCO.

SWEET PEA ATKINSON In addition to this remix,“GARAGE SALE” includes several jewels from the ZE Records. Back catalogue: the long play version of the sublime Dream Baby Dream by SUICIDE; a remix of Alan Vega’s Outlaw by August Dar- nell; Techno-Freqs by Junnie Morrison, founder member of Funkadelic who brought out an excellent album, Evacuate your seats, on ZE in 1983; a mix by Don Was of What’s a Girl to Do by Cristina. Don was also involved in the production of Dance or Die by Sweet Pea Atkinson (singer of Was (not Was) from his solo album Don’t Walk Away (ZE Records 1982) this can almost be considered as a WNW album given that virtually the full band is present. Also present are Man VS The Empire Brain Building from the second album by Was (Not Was) for ZE in 1982, Born to Laugh at Tornadoes and Read my Lips, another production by the Was (not) brothers under the pseudonym of “A THOUSAND POINTS OF NIGHT”. There is also the underground classic He’s the Groove by Snuky Tate, released on ZE in 1979 as a single and 12” single, plus the classic No time to Stop Believing in Love, by DAISY CHAIN, in the international version. There are two excellent tracks from RON ROGERS, a very active member of the ZE dream team in the early 80s. Ron also took part in the sessions with AURAL EX- CITERS, BOB BLANK’s After Hours Party Band, with Maladie d’Amour.

As Kevin Pearce wrote in the liner notes in MUTANT DISCO Volume 1 & 2: “Yes, the urge to let our imagination run riot, and the need to dance to twisted sounds remains. « The MUTANT DISCO, the haunted dancehall will never close down ». This new selection is a step towards perpetual motion!

Michel Esteban Paris, October 2004 CRISTINA 26 • RON ROGERS • Yaya • 3:27 Written by Ron Rogers / T.Tane / Rikki St James Recorded at Electric Lady & Sound Heights Studios NYC All instruments & Vocals Ron Rogers Except Lead Vocals by Rikki St James Produced by Ron Rogers & Vince Traina Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982

27 • DON ARMANDO 2° Av. Rhumba Band • I’m an Indian Too • 3:22 Written by Irving Berlin Published by Irving Berlin Music Lead Vocal by Fonda Rae Produced & Arranged by “ Sugar Coated” Andy Hernandez Recorded at Blank Tape Studios NYC Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979

29 • WAS (NOT WAS) • Man Vs The Empire Brain Building • 3:58 Written by David Was / Don Was Published by Los Was Cosmipolitanos Ascap Recorded at Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit 1983 Produced by Don Was & David Was & Jack Tann Detroit Wasmopolitan Mixinq Squad: Duane Bradley, Ken Collier and Don Was Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1983

DAISY CHAIN 30 • SNUKY TATE • He’s the Groove • 6:09 34 • ALAN VEGA • Outlaw August Darnell ReMix • 5:14 Written by Snuky Tate Written by Alan Vega Published by Blackmouth Music Published by Revega Music Inc. Ascap Produced by Snuky Tate Recorded at Skyline Sutios NYC Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979 Produced by Alan Vega Remixed by August Darnell 31 • AURAL EXCITERS • Maladie d’Amour • 5:33 Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982 Written by August Darnell / Andy Hernandez Published by Warner chappell Music 35 • A THOUSAND POINTS OF NIGHT • Read My Leaps • 5:54 Recorded at Blank Tapes NYC Written by David Was / Don Was Produced by Bob Blank Published by Los Was Cosmipolitanos Ascqp Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979 Produced by Don Was & David Was Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1989 32 • SWEET PEA ATKINSON • Dance or Died • 6:33 Written by David Was / Don Was 36 • JUNNIE MORRISON • Techno-Freqs • 5:54 Published by Los Was Cosmipolitanos Ascap Written by Walter Morrison Recorded at Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit 1982 Published by Island USA Music Inc. / Jun-Trac Music Bmi Produced by Don Was & David Was & Jack Tann Recorded at The Disc & United, Detroit & The 5th Floor, Cincinnati Dance Consultant Ken Collier Produced by Walter Morrison Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982 Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1984 33 • RON ROGERS • Naughty Boy • 5:09 37 • DAISY CHAIN • No Time to Stop Believing in Love • 5:50 Written by Ron Rogers Written By Sigerson, Zito, Kawasoe, Toro, Blasquist, Landrau Recorded at Electric Lady & Sound Heights Studios NYC Published by Rondor Music / Copyright Control All instruments & Vocals Ron Rogers Strings Arranged by Paul Riser Except Guitar Jim Rippetoe, Sax Stan Harrison Mixed by Harvey Goldberg Background Vocals Sue Schmidt & Stephanie Fuller Produced by Davitt Sigerson & Phillipe Rault Produced by Ron Rogers & Vince Traina Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1984 Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982 38 • KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS • Something Wrong In Paradise • 4:56 Written by Mark Mazur August Darnell Larry Levan ReMix Published by Island Music Ltd / MCPS – Perennial August Music Produced by August Darnell for Bindisi Reet Productions Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1983

39 • CRISTINA • What a Girl To Do ReMix • 4:20 Written by David Was / Don Was / Barry Reynolds Published by Sleep it Off Music Bmi, Airstream Music Bmi, Los Was Cosmipolitanos Ascap Recorded at Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit Produced by Don Was Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1984

40 • SUICIDE • Dream Baby Dream • 6:20 Written by Alan Vega / Martin Rev Published by Revega Music Inc. Ascap Recorded at Power Station NYC Produced by Rick Ocasek Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1980

41 • WAS (NOT WAS) • Shake your Head Let’s Go to Bed ReMix • 5:31 Written by David Was / Don Was / Jarvis Strout) Published by Los Was Cosmipolitanos/State of the Arless/ Great Joy Music Recorded at Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit Featuring vocals by Kim Basinger & Ozzy Osbourne Produced by Don Was, David Was & Jack Tann Remixed by Steve « Silk » Hurley Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982

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01 • Was (Not Was) • Shake your Head Let’s Go to Bed ReMix • 5:32 02 • Tussle Vs Don Armando • I’m an Indian Too Re/Deconstruction Mix • 7:18 03 • David Gamson • No Turn On Red Fat Camp Version Edit • 5:48 04 • Don Armando • Winter of Love Mutant Disco Edit • 6:18 05 • Aural Exciters • Marathon Runner • 6:24 06 • Junie Morrison • Tease Me Arthur Baker ReMix • 7:01 07 • Rosa Yemen Vs Stiff Figure • Herpes Simplex ReMix • 5:04 08 • Twitch / Optimo • Contort Yourself • 6:53 09 • Was (Not Was) • The Party Broke Up Mutant Disco Edit • 3:12 10 • Lizzy Mercier Descloux • Hard-Boiled Babe Mutant Disco ReMix • 4:37 11 • Alan Vega • Fireball Mutant Disco Edit • 4:06 12 • Gichy Dan’s Beachwood # 9 • Action Man • 5:17 13 • Garçons • French Boy Filter Dub Mix • 6:32 14 • Michael Dracula • Destroy Yourself CDLS ReMix • 4:33

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42 • TUSSLE • I’m an Indian Too Re / Deconstruction Mix • 7:17 Written by Irving Berlin • Published by Irving Berlin Music Featuring Vocal by Fonda Rae • Originaly Mixed & Produced by August Darnell Arranged by « Sugar Coated » Andy Hernandez RE/Deconstruction Mix Produced by Tussle & Andrew Freid with additional production by Ben Cook Recorded at Spark Productions, Emeryville, CA Arranged and Mixed at 15pearl Studio, San Francisco, CA Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979 & 2004

43 • DAVID GAMSON • No Turn On Red Fat Camp Version Edit • 5:48 Composed By D. Gamson & R. Gamson Additional Production & Edited by Fat Camp Re-edit Engineered by Paul Noble Synthesizer & Stylophone Solo by Andy Rogers Producer by David Gamson Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979

44 • DON ARMANDO • Winter of Love Mutant Disco Edit • 6:17 Written by Don Armando • Published by Zem Sound / Don Armando Music Recorded at Blank Tapes NYC Produced by Andy « Coati Mundi » Hernandez Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979

45 • AURAL EXCITERS • Marathon Runner • 6:23 Written by August Darnell / Andy Hernandez / Carlos Franzetti Published by Perennial August / Unichappell Music / Zem Sound Recorded at Blank Tapes NYC Produced by Bob Blank Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979 46 • JUNIE MORRISON • Tease Me Arthur Baker ReMix • 7:01 Written by Walter Morrison Published by Island USA Music Inc / Jun-Trac Music BMI Recorded at The Disc & United, Detroit & The 5th Floor, Cincinnati Produced by Walter Morrison • Remixed by Arthur Baker Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1984

47 • ROSA YEMEN VS STIFF FIGURE • Herpes Simplex ReMix • 5:03 Written by Lizzy Mercier Descloux / Dj Banes Published by ZE Multimedia Music • Recorded at Blank Tapes NYC. Produced by Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Michel Esteban Additional Recording & Mix by Stiff Figure Remixed by Charlus de La Salle Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1978 / 2002

48 • TWITCH / OPTIMO • Contort Yourself ReMix • 6:53 Written by James Siegfried • Published by Copastatic Recorded at Blank Tapes NYC • Originaly Produced by James Chance Additional recording by Twich Optimo ReMix Produced by Twich Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979 & 2003

49 • WAS (NOT WAS) • The Party Broke Up Mutant Disco Edit • 3:12 Written by David Was & Don Was Published by Los Was Cosmipolitanos / State of the Arless Recorded & Mixed by the Detroit Wasmopolitan Mixinq Squad Duane Bradley, Ken Collier & Don Was Produced By Don Was & David Was Recorded at Sound Suite Recording Studios, Detroit Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1982 50 • LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX • Hard-Boiled Babe Mutant Disco ReMix • 4:36 Written by Lizzy Mercier Descloux / Michel Bassignani Published by ZE Multimedia Music • Recorded at South Factory Produced By Michel Esteban & Michel Bassignani Remixed by Charlus de La Salle 2008

51 • ALAN VEGA • Fireball Mutant Disco Edit • 4:06 Written by Alan Vega. Published by Revega Music Inc ASCAP Recorded at Skyline Studios, NYC 1980 Produced By Alan Vega Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1980

53 • GARÇONS • French Boy Filter Dub Mix • 6:32 Written by Vidal & Fitoussi Remix by Disco Elements Recorded at Blank Tape Studio NYC Produced by Michel Esteban & Michael Zilkha Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 1979

54 • MICHAEL DRACULA • Destroy Yourself CDLS ReMix • 4:38 Written by Emily McLaren • Published by ZE Multimedia Music Recorded at South Factory Studio Produced By Michel Esteban & Michel Bassignani Remixed by Charlus de La Salle 2008 Original Sound Made by ZE Records © 2003 BONUS TRACKS

55 • MATERIAL Feat. NONA HENDRYX • Bustin’ Out • Rub Gleen Rivera ReStructure Mix • 9:37 Original Mix by Tee Scott Originaly Produced by Martin Bisi & Material Written by Bill Laswell, Fred Maher, Michael Beinhorn, Nona Hendryx, Ronnie Drayton Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980

56 • GICHY DAN BEACHWOOD ≠ 9 • A Day Like Today • Todd Terje « Friendly Children » Edit • 5:01 Composed by August Darnell Additional Production & Edited by Todd Terje Vocals by The beachwood Kids Originaly Producer by August Darnell & Ron Rogers Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979

57 • COATI MUNDI • Que Pasa / Me No Pop I Biggabush Edit • 4:34 Written by Andy Hernandez. Published by Cri Cri Music. Produced by « Sugar Coated » Andy Hernandez. Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980

58 • CAROLINE LOEB • La Nuit Nous Appartient Ron Rogers Extended Dance Mix • 8:17 Composed by Carolyne Loeb & Seth Tillet Additional Production & Edited by Felix Dickinson, Luke Howard Originaly Producer by Arto Lindsay Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979

59 • CRISTINA • La Poupée Qui Fait Non • 7:41 Written by Polnaref & Gerald Arranged & orchestred by Sugar Coated Andy Hernandez Produced by August Darnell Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1980

60 • ARTO / NETO • Pini, Pini • The Barking Dogs Edit • 6:02 Composed by Arto Lindsay & Seth Tillet Additional Production & Edited by Felix Dickinson, Luke Howard Originaly Producer by Arto Lindsay Original sound recording made by ZE Records © 1979