Zombie Zombie: The ‘Wednesday Alternative’ Mix

The enveloping sounds across the release blend the group’s core influences – kraut-rock, cinematic soundtracks, house and dub – but this time laced with harmonic vocals and cryptic preaches, which are sung through vocoders in Latin, for the most part.

With this release Zombie Zombie are building on the sound bed they’ve become known for since forming in 2006. Of course this includes a swathe of memorable covers over the years, including Sun Ra, Suicide, Iggy Pop and John Carpenter, the latter two of whom praised the band’s unique output.

To celebrate their welcome return, we tasked them with taking charge of this week’s Wednesday Alternative mix which is an eerie journey through experimental, ritualistic rhythms, kraut and dub atmospheres.

Please introduce yourself… Who are you, where are you and what are you?

We are three zombies back from the dead, Etienne Jaumet, Cosmic Neman & the Doctor Schonberg wandering in the streets of Paris city France.

What does your music sound like? Can you draw what you think it sounds like for us (an image from the old internet is acceptable)?

Our music sounds like an old pagan ritual with a choir singing in Latin

Where was the mix recorded?

In the Paris Catacombs

What would be the ideal setting to listen to the mix?

Sitting in the stairs of an ancient roman theater such as the Colosseum

What should we be wearing?

Preachers’ robes

What would be your dream setting to record a mix: Location/system/format?

E&S rotary mixer + 2 SL1200 MKII turntables with Serendeepity delay on the Vesuvio

Which track in the mix is your current favourite?

Chimère FM tableau d’Yvette, the new ICube project with his mate John Cravache on Versatile records

What’s your favourite recorded mix of all time?

Listening music randomly on a computer

If you could go back to back with any DJ from throughout history, who would it be and why?

Otomo Yoshihide playing turntables with cymbals instead of records

What was your first DJ set up at home and what is it now?

Just one turntable with a good amp & speakers, we’re not proper DJs

What’s more important, the track you start on or the track you end on?

They are both really exciting parts

What were the first and last records you bought?

ZZ Top – The first album

Albert Ayler – The last album

If this mix was an edible thing, what would it taste like?

A mushroom cookie

If it was an animal what would it be?

A Tardigrade

One record in your collection that is impossible to mix into anything?

The Guinness World record

Upcoming in the world of …

Brexit

Anything else we need to discuss?

The future of press