Year Zero

30/04/2012

Hi All Year Zero friends...we're moving to Future Noise Music where we'll be giving a lot of great music away in competitions soon...please come over and 'Like' us there. Many thanks

London based independent record label www.futurenoisemusic.com

24/04/2012

Hi All Year Zero friends...we're moving to Future Noise Music where we'll be giving a lot of great music away in competitions soon...please come over and 'Like' us there. Many thanks

London based independent record label www.futurenoisemusic.com

23/04/2012

Hi All YEAR ZERO friends...we're moving Year Zero under the umbrella label of Future Noise Music and therefore all the back catalogue including the page etc will now be on link below.
PLEASE come over and 'Like' us there where we have great new artist releases...and will soon be giving away copies of these releases in competitions.

London based independent record label www.futurenoisemusic.com

19/08/2011

Our 'Watch The Closing Doors' set gets a perfect 5 STAR rating in todays Daily Mirror , which they describe as "Astonishing".

Part one is available now on 2CD + 78 page book and double vinyl HERE-> http://www.futurenoisemusic.com/product.aspx?id=734

17/08/2011

For those that missed it, here is the first part of a fascinating interview that Kris Needs did with Heads down on our 'Watch The Closing Doors' set.

Heads Down's Christopher Tubbs talks to music journalistic legend, producer and DJ Kris Needs about 80's New York and his stunning new 'Watch The Closing Doo...

08/08/2011

Fantastic video interview with Kris Needs talking about New York and Watch The Closing Doors over on the fantastic Heads Down blog. CHECK IT

Kris Needs is a bit of a legend. OK, he’s a lot of a legend. From his almost supernatural ability to find himself at the point of so many cultural lightening strikes over the years (from NYC disco and post punk to Acid House), Kris has found himself producing dance music as Secret Knowledge, getting...

05/08/2011

Another great 8/10 review for our latest 'Bustin' Out' out compulation from the folks at Foxy Digitalis. Have a read by clicking the link below.

Curating a compilation is undoubtedly a difficult proposition. Â Even if you manage an impeccable song selection, serious listeners will inevita...

26/07/2011

Another complimentary 'Watch The Closing Doors' review, this time from the good people at Dusted. Click the link below to have a read.

Dusted album review. Artist: V/A.Album: Watch the Closing Doors: A History of New Yorks Musical Melting Pot. 1: 1945 1960

19/07/2011

'Bustin Out 1984' get's a rave 8/10 review from the lovely folks at PopMatters.

"1984 represents a moment of rupture between departing scenes. Guided by acid and other less-romantic street drugs, industrial dance in the late 1980s pushed the arpeggios to their progressive limits, forming elliptical patterns that seemed locked in like a K-hole..."

Buy your copy HERE-> http://bit.ly/lhgA1Z

1984 was a transitional period for electronic music, as this compilation conveys shrewdly.

07/07/2011

'Watch The Closing Doors' has been included in the top re-issues and compilations of the year so far by The Quietus, coming in at number 28.

Click the link below to see who else was included in the chart, and click HERE to buy your copy now-> http://www.futurenoisemusic.com/product.aspx?id=734

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01/07/2011

Fantastic 5 STAR review of 'Watch The Closing Doors' set in todays The Independent. Andy Gill describes it as "an extraordinary, wide-ranging story, in which the obvious jazz legends are leavened with bursts of doo-wop and early R&B...Roll on the 1960s set."

Buy your copy HERE-> http://www.futurenoisemusic.com/product.aspx?id=734

Kris Needs, curator of the excellent Dirty Water punk-attitude compilation, here turns his attention to New York's "musical melting pot", with a projected five-volume series of double-disc sets, this first covering the years 1945-59.

30/06/2011

House legend Jesse Saunders speaks to Legendary Children about all things Chicago and the real story behind 'Love Can't Turn Around'. His track 'On & On', credited as being the first ever house track, features on our new edition of 'Bustin' Out 1984' - OUT NOW

Jesse Saunders is the Chicago producer first known for live-editing tracks in his DJ sets in the early 80s, and then for producing breakthrough tracks such as Love Can’t Turn Around. He’s been credited with producing the first ever House track On & On and is noted by many as a true pioneer.

28/06/2011

IN STORES NOW !
MOJO “an intoxicating aurel evocation of a lost world” 4****
RECORD COLLECTOR “one of the most fascinating compilations series we’ve ever encountered” 5*****
THE WIRE “essential”

Watch The Closing Doors: A History of New York's Musical Melting Pot is a six volume, double CD series, by renowned journalist and author Kris Needs, released on the Year Zero label.

23/06/2011

Ransom Note have done a feature on our brand new 'Bustin Out 1984' album, saying - "There was revolution crackling in the air in 1984 and Mike Maguire has again done an inimitable job of bottling it."

Click below to read the feature, and listen again to Mike Macguire's 'Bustin Out' mix.

Mike Maguire’s Bustin’ Out Mix ’1984: New Wave To New Beat’ classic cuts from 1984 by Theransomnote on Mixcloud Veteran DJ Mike Maguire’s spectacular…

21/06/2011

DJ and 'Bustin Out' compiler Mike Maguire has done a 'Bustin Out' mix exclusively for Clash Magazine featuring some of the artists from the series. Click the link below to stream the mix now.

To order your copy of the album CLICK HERE-> http://www.futurenoisemusic.com/product.aspx?id=732

Music Feature: Mike Maguire supplies ClashMusic with a Dj mix focussing on proto electronica.

16/06/2011

New York's Time Out magazine has just run a fantastic interview they conducted with 'Watch The Closing Doors' compiler Kris Needs. In it he discusses the diversity of the New York music scene, the difficulties in compiling such a series, and reminisces on important musical landmarks now lost through architectural modernization.

After-dark inquiry: Kris Needs

15/06/2011

'Watch The Closing Doors' creator Kris Needs has compiled his top memories of living in New York at the time for STUPEFACTION. Follow the link below for an insight in to what made New York such a special place for music.

08/06/2011

You can now read the full interview that Kris did with Village Voice to discuss his upcoming set 'Watch The Closing Doors'. Click the link below.

A veteran English music writer, Kris Needs lived in New York City in the late '80s (he spent two years...