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

"The long awaited debut album from Chicks On Speed. Sydney-born Alex Murray-Leslie, New Yorker Melissa Logan, and Kiki Morse from Munich met behind the Munich Art Academy in 1997 and started as an art project that has 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, electronic music wisdom, and a killer instinct for pop. Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All collects the best tracks of their totally sold out 7"s." "'Real' (as opposed to the mega-limited Un-Releases CD) album from this trio of pan-lingual/locational mistresses, now creating a sort of 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. Immense listing of accomplices adorns the CD: Tina Frank, Ramon Bauer, Florian Hecker (all of Mego/Skot fame), Patrick Pulsinger (of Cheap fame), 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-52's, 'Mind Your Own Business' by the Delta 5) and a couple of jabs at the concepts of modeling and being female in a generally cold, non-receptive society. Incredibly cheeky, so good." -- Hrvatski.

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 and new album of the computer quartet Dat Politics. Based in the historic industrial city of Lille, their cheap laptops generate more than ever some epileptic micro-rhythm escorted by childlike acid melodies. But the real novelty resides in the warped and distortioned singing exercises which are this time mixed-up to their digital hymns. Help in their experiments by some protagonists of the international electronica jet-set, as Blectum From Blechdom, Matmos, Kid 606, Felix Kubin or Lesser, Dat Politics flash by the way of music but also texts some pixellised and pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy,?After work with innovative and respectable labels as A-Musik, Mille Plateaux, Skipp or Tigerbeat6, now the laptop-band collaborates 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 is the long awaited new Chicks On Speed single. The first track from their next album. With a cover-photo of Chicks On Speed by the king of fashion Karl Lagerfeld himself (no joke)! 'Fashion Rules' was produced by Tobi Neumann and Thies Mynther who were recently involved with mixes of club hits like 2-Raumwohnungs 'Sexy Girl', Goldenboy's 'Rippin Kittin' and Peaches 'Set It Off'. And if this would be not enough on the B-side we find a remix by Alter Ego who recently dominated worldwide clubcharts with their own tracks, their Human League remix and their productions for Sven Vath. Alter Ego turn 'Fashion Rules' into a raving/rocking club-anthem."

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

"Kevin Blechdom -- is Kristin Erickson, who recently 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 on 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, 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...Music For The Lazy And Not The BureaucraZy! fondles a variety of music types that will wax your ears nonetheless 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, you know, elegantly garnished with a dash of roots of Ms. Reed."

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

"Only the first issue of 5,000 CD's will contain 2 bonus-videos of 'We Don't Play Guitars' (feat.Peaches) 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, Captain Comatose And Gerhard Potuznik. In a special USA-Edition comprising the album 99 Cents with the singles 'We don't play guitars' and 'Wordy Rappinghood' and their high profile Remixes."

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

"This is a magic record from the singer of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva. The Raincoats always collaborated on ideas and songs -- and played guitars! With this album, The Lighthouse, Ana da Silva wanted to do something different -- some-thing she hadn't done before. She decided to buy a small digital instrument which has lots of sounds, a mini keyboard, and a sequencer (you can programme all the notes and beats into its memory). All of the album, except 'Modinha', was recorded with this instrument and her voice onto an eight 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 wants the songs to express feelings and to create worlds in which the listener can roam in their own particular way."

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

LP version. "This is a magic record from the singer of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva. The Raincoats always collaborated on ideas and songs -- and played guitars! With this album, The Lighthouse, Ana da Silva wanted to do something different -- some-thing she hadn't done before. She decided to buy a small digital instrument which has lots of sounds, a mini keyboard, and a sequencer (you can programme all the notes and beats into its memory)."

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

"The French northern electronic trio Dat Politics is back with a fifth and new album. Taking up again the pop elements of their previous release Plugs Plus (CSD 6cd), Dat Politics confirm their attachment to naive and hypnotic melodies and propose some complex and efficient digital compositions. Go Pets Go is without any doubts the most complete album of the trio, gathering all the sonic facets from their previous works: a digital folk touch supported by the collaborations of Kevin Blechdom and Nathan Michel, some dreamt and cynical lyrics, a couple of Nintendo techno mini-hits and compositions based on insects and pets recordings...."

Artist:	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 2003. The CD features music between punk, chanson and agit-pop by the band Le Robespierres (feat. 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 and IC. 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 a very special packaging based on exclusive drawings by the renowned German artist Daniel Richter."

Artist:	CHICKS ON SPEED
Title:	Press the Spacebar
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	COSR 019CD

"The third regular Chicks On Speed album after Will Save Us All and last years 99cents sees them radically turn away from electroclash approach they are often and to their dismay associated with. COS team up with the producer Cristian Vogel (we know him from Super Collider and his soloworks on Novamute, Mille Plateaux or Tresor), a band in Barcelona (that was soon called The Noheads) and deliver their most collective and psychedelic record to date. A record that will remind people of The Raincoats, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Violent Femmes, The Bangles, Beefheart & the Magic Band , Bananarama, Bongwater, ESG, the Slits or Nina Hagen ...and which still is impossible to place anywhere."

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

"Their third album for Chicks On Speed Records (and the sixth album in six years of existence) 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:	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:	Art Rules
Label:	CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	COSR 035EP

12" version. This is a 3-track 12" 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.

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

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

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

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