ZEVOLUTION: ZE RECORDS RE-WORKED by V/A

Following their recent ZE 30 anniversary compilation album, Strut’s collaboration with mighty New York imprint ZE Records continues this Autumn with Zevolution, bringing together new and rare DJ edits of ZE tracks by 14 producers.ZE has continued to be a prime source for DJs with dozens of re-edits surfacing in recent years, re-working and extending the label’s experimental post-punk grooves for maximum dancefloor punch. Many of the edits have become classics in their own right – on this album, there's Todd Terje’s ‘Friendly Children’ re-work of Gichy Dan’s ‘On A Day Like Today’, Soul Mekanik’s dubbed out treatment of Kid Creole’s ‘Annie’ and more. Others have surfaced briefly on limited white label 12s or on blog sites – the prolific Social Disco Club from Porto and Idjut Boys, whose re-touch of another Kid Creole track here, ‘I’m Corrupt’, is much in-demand. For the album, Strut also commissioned a fresh batch of versions, many transforming seminal ZE tracks which have previously been tricky to play in clubs. Richard Sen sews together brilliantly the two parts of James White’s fidgety ‘Almost Black’, Italian DJ team The Barking Dogs create a tracky beast from Arto Lindsay’s beatless ZE experiment ‘Pini Pini’ and Luke Howard and Felix Dickinson from Horse Meat Disco with a version of Aural Exciters’ ‘Spooks In Space’. For the ‘heads’, there are ultra-rare tracks too – Fat Camp resurrect a David Gamson track ‘No Turn On Red’, previously only available on an NME cover mount cassette.