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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 046CD
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Slow-motion-piano-punk with open stitches. One-third piano, one-third converted drums, one-third singing sewing machines, talking skirts, buzzing laser guns, and clacking typewriters. The Munich-based duo Beißpony reveal what it sounds like when a singer-songwriter and textile artist with roots in the riot-grrrl and feminist DIY-movement join forces. Laura hails from the singer-songwriter and antifolk-scene. "I'm more interested in experiments and accidents," says Steffi. Both girls got to know each other in 2006 at the infamous Kafe Kult in Munich, where they also had their first stage appearance. They used the facilities to record the first couple of songs for their debut album Brush Your Teeth in a one-week kamikaze-recording session with a lot of ice cream. The final part of the album was recorded with the Zork Free Arts Lab in an abandoned police training building. Over the years, Beißpony have played live shows in Italy, Austria and Germany, at festivals and in art galleries. They combine their shows with imaginative fashion and art performances and surprise their audience time and again. Deluxe oversized packaging with postcards.
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COSR 046LP
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LP version. Includes a free CD and 10 picture cards. Slow-motion-piano-punk with open stitches. One-third piano, one-third converted drums, one-third singing sewing machines, talking skirts, buzzing laser guns, and clacking typewriters. The Munich-based duo Beißpony reveal what it sounds like when a singer-songwriter and textile artist with roots in the riot-grrrl and feminist DIY-movement join forces. Laura hails from the singer-songwriter and antifolk-scene. "I'm more interested in experiments and accidents," says Steffi. Both girls got to know each other in 2006 at the infamous Kafe Kult in Munich, where they also had their first stage appearance. They used the facilities to record the first couple of songs for their debut album Brush Your Teeth in a one-week kamikaze-recording session with a lot of ice cream. The final part of the album was recorded with the Zork Free Arts Lab in an abandoned police training building. Over the years, Beißpony have played live shows in Italy, Austria and Germany, at festivals and in art galleries. They combine their shows with imaginative fashion and art performances and surprise their audience time and again.
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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 040CD
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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.
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COSR 038CD
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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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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 037CD
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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.).
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COSR 037LP
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LP version, on limited colored vinyl.
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COSR 032CD
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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.
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COSR 031CD
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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.
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COSR 026CD
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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."
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COSR 027CD
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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.
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COSR 022CD
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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.
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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.
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COSR 013CD
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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.
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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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COSR 018EP
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"'Flame On" is the hidden track on the CD version of the Chicks On Speed album 99 Cents (COSR 012CD/LP). On the flip, Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio provides a powerful, dark, death disco remix refined by the additional production of Super Collider's Cristian Vogel.
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COSR 015CD
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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.
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