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COSR 047LP
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Double LP version. Includes a CD copy of the album.
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COSR 047CD
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Writer Douglas Coupland describes us living in a post Koonsian world with a curated 21st century lifestyle, where everything is art and everyone can be an artist and even non-art is art by default: a readymade! Globe-trotting performance, art, music, fashion and new media provocateurs Chicks On Speed (Alex Murray-Leslie and Melissa Logan) are back with their genre-defying & shape-shifting Artstravaganza. The album and series of six interactive musical instrument APPs presents analog craft strategies alongside digital human computer interaction, in a collision between pop music, art, activism and data -- this album and international series of interactive live-art exhibitions and concerts to launch Artstravaganza invites Chicks On Speed audiences to become prosumers. Musical collaborations on Artstravaganza include Australian journalist and activist Julian Assange, philanthropist, chairman TBA21, and pop star, Princess Francesca von Habsburg, artist Yoko Ono, '60s performance artist and director of ZKM, Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Peter Weibel, Singaporean artist Angie Seah, long-time Chicks On Speed collaborator Anat Ben-David and the students of Interface Cultures lab, University of Art and Design, Linz. Artstravaganza is produced by Chicks On Speed (Melissa Logan & Alex Murray-Leslie) with Christopher Just, Oliver Horton, Phill Speiser and Timor Litzenberger.
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COSR 042CD
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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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COSR 042LP
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Double LP version in gatefold sleeve.
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COSR 035EP
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COSR 035CD
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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.
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COSR 019LP
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COSR 012CD
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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.
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LABELS 017CD
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"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.
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COSR 012-2LP
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Alternate vinyl version. Same tracks as COS 012 LP, on two LPs instead of one, with an exclusive version of "99¢" featuring Gonzales, plus new artwork.
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COSR 012LP
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LP version, full-color gatefold sleeve.
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COSR 008EP
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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.
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COSR 002EP
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COSR 002CD
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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."
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COSR 001CD
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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.
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