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Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Will Save Us All!
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 001CD

This is the debut album from Chicks On Speed. The trio of Sydney-born Alex Murray-Leslie, New Yorker Melissa Logan, and Kiki Morse from Munich met behind the Munich Art Academy in 1997 and started an art project that gradually merged into the medium of music. For their debut album, they founded a new label, Chicks On Speed Records. Their music is a unique mixture of punk/new wave attitude and electro-wisdom, along with a killer instinct for pop. Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All collects the best tracks of their totally sold-out 7"s." from this trio of pan-lingual/locational mistresses, who have created a stir in all manner of global art/culture hubs due to their infinitely appealing attire (single-use paper/leather dresses of primitive means taped directly to the body) and new/no-wave approach to synth-pop. An immense listing of accomplices adorns the CD: Tina Frank, Ramon Bauer, Florian Hecker (all of Mego/Skot fame), Patrick Pulsinger, Gerhard Potuznik (of Mego/Cheap fame), Ed DMX (of DMX Krew fame), etc. Features a few ridiculous covers ("Warm Leatherette" by The Normal, "Give Me Back My Man" by The B-52s, "Mind Your Own Business" by Delta 5, "Kaltes Klares Wasser" by Malaria!) and a couple of jabs at the art-world, concepts of modeling and being female in a generally cold, non-receptive society. Incredibly cheeky and so good.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Chix-52
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	COSR 002CD

On this four-track EP, the German art collective/electro trio Chicks On Speed goes B-52s. Again, far-from-boring cover version-business-as-usual. Produced by Gerhard Potuznik and Ramon Bauer. Featuring "Give Me Back My Man" from their debut album Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All!, and two other previously-unreleased B-52s covers of "Strobelight" and "Song For A Future Generation" and one brand new Chicks On Speed original, "The Chixmachine."

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Fashion Rules!
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	COSR 008EP

This single is the first track from Chicks On Speed's acclaimed 99¢ album. With a cover-photo of the Berlin trio by the king of fashion Karl Lagerfeld himself (no joke)! Fashion Rules! was produced by Tobi Neumann and Thies Mynther. And if this were not enough, on the B-side is a remix by Alter Ego, who have dominated worldwide club charts with their own tracks, their Human League remix and their productions for Sven Väth. Alter Ego turn "Fashion Rules!" into a raving/rocking club-anthem.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	99 Cents
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	COSR 012CD

The second album from Berlin-based fashion/art/music collective Chicks On Speedsees the Chicks taking major quantum leaps with their trademark conceptual trashing. You can call it electroclash, but tis truly a new horizon! Singles "Fashion Rules!" and "We Don't Play Guitars" set the tone for massive yet critical kiddy dance stompers, with extra weird and wonderful stuff happening in between -- an ultimate cover version of Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood"; "Shick Shaving," a slab of pure insanity featuring Miss Kittin; "Coventry," an electro r 'n' b tune to make you shake your hips and shed a tear at the same time; "Culture Vulture," an anthem for the noughties with a trumpet part -- and much more. Only the first issue of 5,000 CDs will contain 2 bonus-videos of "We Don't Play Guitars" and "Wordy Rappinghood" as well as 9 (!) remixes of these songs by electronic music greats Chicken Lips, Dave Clarke, Trevor Jackson/Playgroup, Cristian Vogel, Tiefschwarz, Christopher Just, Gerhard Potuznik, and Captain Comatose.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Art Rules
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	COSR 035CD

This is a 3-track CD single by Chicks On Speed for their own Chicks On Speed record label. The Chicks On Speed name at this point stands for multimedia revolution: music production, a clothing label, design work and more, seeking to subvert and destroy commodification in each industry they ply. After the fashion industry, Chicks On Speed have chosen a new target, which is even bigger and more monstrous: the art market. Due to a speculation bubble without precedence, art has become the fifth largest industry in the world. Art collecting is now regarded as avant garde consumer behavior, collectors have become role models of coolness, and curators are said to be the new DJs. Not only are the prices absurd, the whole system is corrupt. It has always been part of COS's subversive strategy to beat adversaries with their own weapons. They now fight the art market with art, and museums are their operating theatre. Therefore, the even larger collective of COS (Kathi Glas, Anat Ben David, A.L. Steiner, Melissa Logan and Alex Murray Leslie) co-operate with their famous artist-colleague Douglas Gordon. Art Rules is a campaign: a performance, a song, and a video. "Art Rules" performed by Art Rules Crew, has already been shown in important museums like the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and venues in Madrid and Vienna; in the near future, museums in Kyoto and Tokyo will follow. This CD is the first document from their campaign, co-produced by COS and Christopher Just. This Euro-trash anthem against the art trash shown at the 2007 mega-events in Kassel, Venice, and Basel was produced in a hotel room in New York, just after the COS performance at the MoMA. Includes a rock treatment and a remix by Christopher Just.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Cutting The Edge
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	COSR 042CD

Chicks On Speed present their fifth album, Cutting The Edge, the result of two years of productive creativity: filming video, making art installations, organizing Girl Monster extravaganzas, reading books, exhibiting all over the planet, making patchwork fashion collections, building high-heeled shoe guitars, high-tech super suits that trigger sound and video and other Objekt Instruments, and so much more. Cutting The Edge utilizes the collective as a mechanism for the production of instantaneous sound and music recordings. The Chicks worked with: Whomadewho, Mark Stewart, Joe Robinson, A.L. Steiner, Kathi Glas, Anat Ben-David, Christopher Just, Fred Schneider, Gerhardt Potuznik, Patrick Pulsinger, and especially UK super-producer team, A Scholar And A Physician. The studios where the album was made included hotel rooms, trains, bathrooms in the cellars of art galleries, over Skype and live recordings taken from their Art Rules performances @ MoMA and Centre Pompidou. The songs range from self-referencing pieces like "Art Rules" and "Extended Paintbrush," full of insider information and irony, poking fun at the art world, to '60s bubblegum-pop, like "Buzz," which is all about the lost glamour of flying, and the Fassbinder-inspired "Black And White Diva" featuring Kiki Moorse, who departed the group 2 years ago to pursue a solo career, to "Sewing Machine," which came about after the Chicks found a photo of themselves in El Pais crediting them as being Kraftwerk on stage. "Vibrator" ended up sounding so B52's-ish, that the Chicks just had to call up Fred Schneider; and yes, the recording happened over Skype. The Objekt Instruments are the newest addiction the Chicks On Speed have -- they're the ultimate culmination of fashion, performance and wearable sculptural art, taking advantage of the latest technological developments in science and new media. Most of the songs on the album have been created by using the Objekt Instruments; amplified rocks, a high-heeled shoe guitar, a sax going through a guitar amp, plucking a gutted piano, and the inspiration for the album title, scissors.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	The Re-Releases Of The Un-Releases
Label:	K RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	KLP 120CD

US mass market reissue of this previously limited to 1000 copy release. "Swelling at nearly 72 minutes in length via 33 tracks, The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases claims the throne as the definitive Chicks on Speed document. It is a remix collage of Chicks on Speed tracks by Viennese Ramon Bauer (Mego) and Gerhard Potuznik (Cheap, Mego, Breakin, IT). It features the more experimental and avant-garde side of the chicks, sewing the songs together with live recordings, chicks interviews, caustic noise bursts, and a lot of rare historic chicks material like the very first chicks recordings ever made. Equal parts cultural commentary and audio alchemy, you'll be hard pressed to encounter anything more crucially modernist than Chicks on Speed. Melding effortlessly the scorching tirade of Atari Teenage Riot, the sassy wave of the Human League, the nihilistic spiral of Suicide, and European techno from Kraftwerk to Pan Sonic into a singular fire-breathing animal, The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases documents the organic movement of Chicks on Speed."

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Wordy Rappinghood
Label:	LABELS (EUROPE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	LABELS 017CD

"Chicks On Speed release the brilliant new single 'Wordy Rappinghood' taken from their latest album 99 Cents. 'Wordy Rappinghood' is the cover of Tom Tom Club 1980's big hit. This version features the vocal talent of Miss Kittin and Tina Weymouth (Tom Tom Club and Talking heads) herself. Released on CD and 12" vinyl, the single comes backed with stunning mixes by the likes of Trevor Jackson, Playground and Dave Clark." AKA COS 017, released by Labels.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	99 Cents
Label:	MUTE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 583917

Original single CD European version; last copies, reduced price. "The new album, their third long player, follows The Re - Releases Of The Un - Releases compilation and 2000's brilliant debut Will Save Us All, and is without doubt their finest collection of songs to date. Written and recorded in their hometown of Berlin, the Chicks On Speed are Kiki Moorse, Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie. The new album sees the band collaborate with a number of their favourite musicians, including Miss Kittin, Le Tigre, Nicola from Adult and Talking Heads' / Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth, who teams up with Chicks On Speed for a take on her own 1981 classic 'Wordy Rappinghood'."

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