Browse by Label: CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)

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:	SYLVESTER BOY
Title:	Monsters Rule This World!
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 003CD

The first non-Chicks On Speed release on their label. Sylvester Boy is the future sound of the past! A psycho fighter night and day! He is a monster, ruling this world! Sylvester Boy is the way of success! It's a disco party war! Future cop! Robo frog! Sylvester Boy is the top model on the motor way! A cyber-elephant who always knows what to do! Boogie-on! Spooky, bass-heavy, electro-sheen-coated, cyborgian-dance throb, driven endlessly forward by a whinging, androgynous, apocalyptic fashionista-drone. "Grinning techno-pop nihilism ... every track is haunted by memories of the decade that produced Soft Cell, Ronald Reagan as leader of the free world, the home computer and the MX-80 missile..." --The Wire; Includes a fold-out poster-sized lyric sheet.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED/KREIDLER
Title:	Chicks On Speed/Kreidler Sessions
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	COSR 004CD

German/multilingual art collective/electro-punk trio Chicks On Speed team up with Düsseldorf's instrumental pop heroes Kreidler to produce their strangest piece of pop music to date. Three originals by Kreidler and Chicks On Speed and one surprising cover version of Nick Cave's "Where The Wild Roses Grow," from 1996's Murder Ballads, makes this release as mysterious as it is appealing. The enhanced CD also includes a multimedia section, featuring a short handycam movie of the Chicks On Speed/Kreidler session.

Artist:	DAT POLITICS
Title:	Plugs Plus
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 006CD

Plugs Plus is the fourth album by the computer quartet Dat Politics. Based in the historic industrial city of Lille, their cheap laptops generate epileptic micro-rhythms escorted by child-like acid melodies. But the real novelty resides in the warped and distortioned singing exercises which are mixed-up inside their digital hymns. Help in their experiments comes from some protagonists of the international electronica jet-set -- Blectum From Blechdom, Matmos, Kid 606, Felix Kubin, Lesser -- and as a result, Plugs Plus is a pixellated pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy. After work with innovative and respectable labels such as A-Musik, Mille Plateaux, Skipp and Tigerbeat6, the laptop-band collaborates here with the electro-trash label from the Berlin-based trio Chicks On Speed to diffuse their domestic and terribly exotic new sonic adventures. Funny, futuristic and radical: this is future electronic pop.

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:	KEVIN BLECHDOM
Title:	Bitches Without Britches
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 009CD

Kevin Blechdom is Kristin Erickson, who moved to Berlin after 5 busy years in San Francisco. While in the San Francisco area, she attended Mills College, founded a band called Blectum From Blechdom, toured the world playing music, and released records on Tigerbeat6, Deluxe, Orthlorng Musork, Shimmy Disc, Four States Fair, Unbearable, Dial(), and Phthalo. Kevin Blechdom plays two laptops, a red strap-on MIDI keyboard, a red banjo, and sings songs. Bitches Without Britches is her first full-length computer/pop record and her debut for Chicks On Speed Records. It contains a totally refreshing and so far unheard mixture of computer pop, banjo-songwriting, weird noises, explicit lyrics and a heartbreaking cover version of Tina Turner's "Private Dancer." The CD is accompanied by a magnificent booklet with one original Kevin Blechdom drawing for each track.

Artist:	REED, ANGIE
Title:	Presents The Best Of Barbara Brockhaus
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 011CD

Angie Reed is an Italian/American performer and artist living in Berlin, who, having tickled the strings of the electric and bass guitar for Stereo Total, has also been in various other bands such as Angie Et Ses Tigres. She has been on tour with her "Barbara Brockhaus Secretary Show" with various artists such as Aavikko, Chilly Gonzales (who also makes an appearance on this record), Peaches, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Darius James and Jim Avignon. The Best Of Barbara Brockhaus portrays a bored secretary, Barbara, who keeps herself from drowning in the monotony of an everyday office life, with spicy hot fantasies depicted from slide projections of her drawings and music. The Best Of Barbara Brockhaus fondles a variety of music types that will wax your ears and bring you to tears. Is it hip-hop? Not really, but it's hip-flop with a drop of garage rock and a dab of that ghetto techno, elegantly garnished with a dash of the roots of Ms. Reed. Includes a 20-page booklet packed with illustrations by the artist herself.

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:	DA SILVA, ANA
Title:	The Lighthouse
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 013CD

This is the magic debut solo record from the singer of the UK's The Raincoats, Ana da Silva. The Raincoats always collaborated on ideas and songs -- and played guitars. However, with this album, Ana da Silva wanted to do something different -- something she hadn't done before. She decided to buy a small digital instrument which has lots of sounds, a mini-keyboard, and a sequencer (programming all the notes and beats into its memory). All of the album, except "Modinha," was recorded with this instrument and her voice onto an 8-track digital recorder. Sometimes this was all very overwhelming, but at least it's all as she wants it to be, having written, played, recorded and mixed the whole album herself. For her, making The Lighthouse was a really challenging and stimulating experience -- she wanted the songs to express feelings and to create worlds in which the listener can roam in their own particular way. Simple, sing-song, child-like melodies, surrounded by rounded electronic textures and warm, organic instruments.

Artist:	DAT POLITICS
Title:	Go Pets Go
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 015CD

2004 release. The French northern electronic trio Dat Politics presents their fifth record. Taking up again the pop elements of their previous release Plugs Plus (COSR 006CD), Dat Politics confirm their attachment to naive and hypnotic melodies and propose some complex and efficient digital compositions. Go Pets Go is without a doubt the trio's most complete album, gathering all the sonic facets from their previous works: a digital folk touch supported by collaborations with Kevin Blechdom and Nathan Michel, some dream-like and cynical lyrics, a couple of Nintendo techno mini-hits and compositions based on recordings of insects and pets.

Artist:	LES ROBESPIERRES & MELISSA LOGAN
Title:	L'Amerique
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 016CD

'L'Amerique is a theater soundtrack from a play by Angela Richter and Ted Gaier which debuted in Hamburg, Germany in March of 2003. The CD features music between punk, chanson and agit-pop by the band Les Robespierres (featuring members of Die Goldenen Zitronen aka Golden Lemons) and Melissa Logan (of Chicks On Speed) with lyrics in English, German and Spanish and spoken-word passages adapting the likes of Franz Kafka, Eldridge Cleaver, Martin Luther King Jr. and I.C. Boyle. 'L'Amerique is a propaganda operette with explicit political content, moving away from postmodernism, and structured around the topic "America" -- a document of collective intelligence between theater, music and art. The CD comes in very special packaging based on exclusive drawings by the renowned German artist Daniel Richter.

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED AND THE NO HEADS
Title:	Press the Spacebar
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 019CD

This is the third album by German art-punk trio Chicks On Speed. Press The Spacebar sees them radically turn away from the electro-clash approach they are often and to their dismay associated with. COS team up with producer Cristian Vogel (best-known for his work with Super Collider and his solo works on Novamute, Mille Plateaux or Tresor) and a band from Barcelona called The No Heads to deliver their most collective and psychedelic record to date. A record that will remind people of The Raincoats, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Violent Femmes, The Bangles, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Bananarama, Bongwater, ESG, The Slits or Nina Hagen, and which is still impossible to place anywhere.

Artist:	KEVIN BLECHDOM
Title:	Eat My Heart Out
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 022CD

Casting herself as the leading-lady in her autobiographical musical story about Love, Kevin Blechdom takes a vulnerable head-first dive into the contradictions and desperation of human emotion and knowing people. Completely naked, she shares her emotional confusion openly. Kevin sings pop music. Kevin sings love songs. But Kevin's love is a rollercoaster of emotional extremes. Eat My Heart Out is a dense musical journey of contrasting styles, surprises, and heart-ache. Her songwriting is fragmented and diverse, but her raw emotion and voice remains on top as the connecting thread: from hyper-MIDI computer frenzies to tragic ballads, from pirate shanties to self-help anthems, from country songs to songs she recorded and wrote on laughing gas. She puts songs together like Legos. The CD also contains a bonus 13-minute movie by Kevin Blechdom and Lucile Desamory called Countdown to Nothing.

Artist:	BROKESCH, SUSANNE
Title:	Emerald Stars
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 026CD

This is Susanne Brokesch's third album and her first on Chicks On Speed Records. On Emerald Stars the producer electronically reworked five songs from the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903): Susanne Brokesch and Jon Turi presented "Der Soldat," "Stille Liebe," "Nachtzauber," "Verschwiegene Liebe" and "Das Ständchen" live on stage at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Susanne's production style on these compositions is less ambient-like than on previous releases. They open up more towards experimentation, classical song interpretation and pop music. Includes a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes."

Artist:	REED, ANGIE
Title:	XYZ Frequency
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 027CD

2005 release. XYZ Frequency engages a mix of various music genres, creating a sound of its own. The concept of XYZ Frequency, as an animation show (to be projected and performed with on stage 1:1) and album, is time and mind travel. Thru worlds in between life, death and parallel universes, Angie Reed slips thru dimensions into numerous characters. Bass clarinets, saxophones, synthesizers, drum-machines, vibraphones, organs, bass, maultrommel, electric and eccentric acoustic guitars breed a new beat. Human beat-box, supplies the mic with spit-fire.

Artist:	DAT POLITICS
Title:	Wow Twist
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 031CD

On their third album for Chicks On Speed Records, DAT Politics are more fun and exciting than ever. With Wow Twist they finally capture the pure raw euphoria of their live sets and confront glitch, power pop, electronica and punk on their most song-oriented and fresh album to date. The French laptop trio make their album sound mature and pop, without affecting their taste for the playful electronic odysseys and obviously, the eleven titles of Wow Twist possess a new knack for perversely catchy hooks.

Artist:	PLANNINGTOROCK
Title:	Have It All
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 032CD

Planningtorock is the one-woman show of Janine Rostron (Berlin/Bolton/GB), a musician and video mistress whose unique solo show is creating mighty waves. Since her debut EP release, EP eins, featuring the underground hit "Local Foreigner," PTR has rustled up a bit of a cult following! Described as progressive pop opera with surreal hip hop attitude, PTR's music has its own undeniable signature sound. Listening to Have It All will drop you smack bang in the middle of a musical territory you won't recognize...and won't want to leave! A boundary shattering musical vision that's bursting with unique character and vocal backbone, with its own undeniable signature sound. PTR's infamous pizzicato bass styles pulsate with irresistible plucked-string production, together with a vivid mix of "barrelhouse boogie-woogie pianos with ridiculous xylophone trills, honkytonk horn sleaze, bluesy growls, and creepy coos," (Pitchfork) proving to us that PTR's talents are as strong as her vision.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Girl Monster
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	COSR 033CD

2006 release. Girl Monster tells a rich historical story, from the original girl monsters of punk and post punk to contemporary tricksters and electro-rock pranksters. Female heroes of the late '70s and early '80s like The Slits, The Raincoats or Malaria! appear alongside contemporary classics like Björk, Le Tigre, Peaches and Chicks On Speed. But what sets the compilation apart from all the other compilations around the topic of "Women and Music" is that it is not just a collection of what everybody knows already, packaged under the misleading slogan of "Women in Rock." Instead, this compilation creates a movement of its own, showcasing some of the finest (and mostly unreleased) tracks from a worldwide underground network of female musicians, even following in the tracks of some of the classics like Tina Weymouth (Tom Tom Club/Talking Heads), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) , Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees), or Ana Da Sliva (The Raincoats) by featuring their latest productions. Deluxe packaging includes a fold-out newspaper. Other artists: Scream Club Vs. Ben Adorable, Mignon, Barbara Morgenstern, Angie Reed, Pam Hogg, Rhythm King And Her Friends, Hanin Elias, Kevin Blechdom, Anat Ben David, Sir Alice, Vivien Goldman, Client, Kids On TV, Boyskout, Erase Errata, No Bra, Pulsallama, Delta 5, Cherry Sunkist, Japanese Intelligence Mind Control, Autonervous, Cobra Killer, Planningtorock, Hanayo, Tobi Vail, Gustav, Bonnie Vs. Hunter, Françoise Cactus, LiliPUT, Katastrophe, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler, Hotel Motel, Gudrun Gut, The Creatures, Soffy O, Ella Bandita, Las Perras Del Infierno, Juliette And The Licks, Miss Le Bomb, Cat5, Robots In Disguise, People Like Us, Michaela Melián, Susanne Brokesch, Scream Club Vs. Leonard DeLeonard, Crystal Cookie, Caro Snatch, Vivien Goldman, Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound, Ari Up and Miss Pain.

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:	KIDS ON TV
Title:	Mixing Business With Pleasure
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 037CD

Kids On TV is basically a three piece from Toronto, Canada with a bunch of frequent guest musicians, and this is their debut full-length release. They explore the worlds of punk, no-rave, electro, booty house and experimental rock. Their output includes, but is by no means limited to, musical recordings, musical performances, film, dance videos, rock opera collaborations, graffiti, crafting, and live "sleep-ins" in ritzy Toronto bars. They reference many elements of queer history and the artists who inspire them. Kids On TV transform environments with projections of their film and video work. A good first insight in the band's humor and social embedding (Hidden Cameras, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Gentlemen Reg, etc.) is revealed in the video to their smash-hit "Breakdance Hunx," which is also included on this CD. Kids On TV are not only an intriguing band, they create a show like no other, with breakdancing in the audience, call and response and audience members dancing on stage. Their first on stage appearances in Europe 2006 were frenetically celebrated and managed to transfer the enthusiasm of their Canadian/American fanbase, everywhere they appeared. Mixing Business With Pleasure was recorded and produced by Kids On TV in Toronto between 2003 and 2006 on a busted laptop and two microphones. The album was mastered by the amazing Kramer, founder of Shimmy Disc (Galaxy 500, GWAR, etc.).

Artist:	BEN-DAVID, ANAT
Title:	Virtual Leisure
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	COSR 038CD

This is the debut full-length release by Anat Ben-David, a video and performance artist working and living in London since 1999. She is a pioneer of the video-performance genre in Israel. Among Anat's works are the "Hugo Boss Provocation" and "Popaganda Live." Towards the end of her Fine Art studies at Goldsmiths College, Anat focused on the relationship between the fascist leader and the pop star as dominant performers in front of a desiring audience. Being a performance artist, she decided to take on the pop star role by joining electro punk rock act Chicks On Speed and collaborating with Peaches. For Anat, the most personal and original expression as an artist lies in a live performance -- using body, voice and appearance. Live events could result in an art performance or a live gig that derives from punk performance and pop music. The essence is the live interaction with whoever is in front of her -- viewers or camera. Besides her activity being a band member of Chicks On Speed, Anat Ben-David still focuses on her solo projects. After having worked as a painter, video and performance artist, it is now time to strengthen her enormous musical output which has always been part of her art. Virtual Leisure is nothing more than an exciting musical expedition through a lot of genres -- interpreted by 100% Anat Ben-David. Like label colleague Planningtorock, Anat is deep into the classical orchestral string thing. Works of Franz Schubert and Mozart inspired the album, as well as Russian futurism and a Frederick Hollaender song originally performed by Marlene Dietrich. Mixing a wide range of musical styles, Virtual Leisure achieves an enigmatic result: never leaving the roots of female electro-punk and performance art, with every second as supercharged as if derived directly from a live show. Anat Ben-David creates something seldom and rare -- an oeuvre of energetic classical electro-pop hymns.

Artist:	DAT POLITICS
Title:	Mad Kit
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	COSR 040CD

This is DAT Politics' fourth full-length record for the Chicks On Speed label. France's favorite electro-Chiptune pioneers do it again with Mad Kit, gathering together a special type of straight-beat propulsion in their gloriously catchy, melodic and eminently danceable music. This album is an espresso shot of playful, booty-shaking, dance-y synth-pop ripe with digitalized vocals, distorted breaks and electric frequencies that will most definitely permanently place them in a luxury spot on the international electronic map. These are ridiculously bleepy, squiggly tracks in a neon-spectrum of zigzagging rainbow colors. Mad Kit creates its own hyperactive sound with a solid body of tracks that will be in heavy rotation, rocking braindance parties all over the world.

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.

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Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED/MIKA VAINIO
Title:	Flame On
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	COSR 018EP

Artist:	LE TIGRE
Title:	This Island Remixes Volume 1
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	COSR 023EP