Cutting the Edge, by CHICKS ON SPEED

Cutting the Edge

by CHICKS ON SPEED

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1.	Intro 00:10		buy track
2.	Girl Monster 03:09	info	buy track
3.	Art Rules 06:23		buy track
4.	Art Speaks Out 00:12		buy track
5.	Vibrator 04:08		buy track
6.	Airport Connection 00:27		buy track
7.	Buzz 03:38		buy track
8.	Extended Paintbrush 04:34		buy track
9.	Globo Cop 05:11		buy track
10.	Sex In Der Stadt 04:56	info	buy track
11.	Strip Song 03:27	info	buy track
12.	How To Build A High Heeled Shoe Guitar 02:34	info	buy track
13.	Super Surfer Girl 03:39	info	buy track
14.	Sewing Machine 03:18	info	buy track
15.	Black And White Diva 03:31	info	buy track
16.	Coolhunters 00:15	info	buy track
17.	Scream Song 03:42	info	buy track
18.	Art Art Rules (Christopher Just's Hard One Intro) 02:12	info	buy track
19.	Art Rules (Christopher Just's Hard One) 05:37	info	buy track
20.	Instrometalized 03:12	info	buy track
21.	Sarah Baker Makes Partying Into Art 05:12	lyrics	buy track
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22.	Cutting The Edge 12:18	info	buy track

about

CHICKS ON SPEED’s FIFTH album “Cutting The Edge” utilises 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 Physician”.
The studios, where the album was made, included hotel rooms, trains, bathrooms in cellars of art
Galleries, over Skype and live recordings taken from their Art Rules performances @ MoMA and
Centre Pompidiou.
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 encourage people to be courageous
and humorous) 60’s bubble gum pop “BUZZ”, which is all about the lost glamour of flying,
Fassbinder inspired “Black and White Diva” featuring Kiki Moorse, who departed the group 2 years
ago, to persue a solo career, “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, sax going
through a guitar amp, plucking a gutted Piano, and the inspiration for the Album title, THE
SCISSORS.
Watch out for these OBJEKT INSTRUMENTS hand made by the Chicks @ the new COS live shows
and exhibitions the world over.
Oh and by the way, experimentalism has never sounded so Pop!

credits

released February 24, 2018

• Track 1-1 recorded at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 1-2 recorded and mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London. Initial text derived from "Fembot vs Girl Monster" by Pil and Gala Kollectiv, Girl Monster compilation on Chicks On Speed Records 2006.
• Track 1-3 at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC.
• Track 1-4: Original recording taken from "Art Rules" live performance, Gartenbau Theatre by Invitation of TBA 21.28.04.2007. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
Track 1-5 recorded at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 1-6 at Lapangan, Terbang Atarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur Airport. In-flight cabin recording; Air Baltic: Flight BT 6299 222. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 1-7 recorded and mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 1-8: Original sounds and concept taken from "Sewer Machine". Live Recording from "Art Rules" live performance, Gartenbau Theatre by Invitation of TBA 21.28.04.2007. Thanks to Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Francesca von Habsburg for her very kind support. Recorded at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC.
• Track 1-9 recorded at BPS Studios and Patrick Pulsingers Feedback Studio, Vienna. Additional production at Art Blakey Studios, Hamburg. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 1-10 Recorded at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC. Based on the original song "Sex in der Stadt" by Hotel Morphila Orchester, 1983.
• Track 1-11 inspired by "Face It!" T-shirt made by Chicks On Speed for Designers Against Aids and Hennes and Mauritz, Fashion Against Aids. Recorded at Great Eastern Hotel, London. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-1 recorded and mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-2 recorded and mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-3 recorded at at Art Blakey Studios, Hamburg. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-4 recorded at "Rostrons Room" Studio, Berlin. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-5 recorded at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-6 recorded at "Rostrons Room" Studio, Berlin. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-7: additional recordings of "Art Rules Manifesto" at "Art Rules" rehearsals, Los Nochas Blancas, Matadero, Madrid, 22.09.07. With special thanks to Adi Nachman. Recorded at at Art Blakey Studios, Hamburg. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-8 recorded in Room 224, Tribecca Grand Hotel, NY. Produced at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC.
• Track 2-9: vocals recorded in Room 224, Tribecca Grand Hotel, NY. Produced at Burt Selbaum Studios, Vie/NYC.
• Track 2-10 recorded at Art Blakey Studios, Hamburg. Mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Track 2-11: additional recordings at Chicks On Speed's exhibition opening of "Shoe Fuck", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. YES/NO voice recorded at Mr Gay Europe, Budapest, Hungary, 5th August 2007. Recorded and mixed at Dreamtrak Studios, London.
• Tracks 2-12.1 & 2-12.2 recorded at Austrohungaro Studio, Barcelone.

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CHICKS ON SPEED Berlin, Germany

Chicks on Speed are art duo Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie who met in Munich, Germany while studying at The Academy of Fine Art, Munich. The duo cross lines and build new groups and are direct decedents of bauhaus, Fluxus, SI and created Electroclash in the last milenia. When they take a break they sleep in a lab and record their dreams which are sonified into the endless songs. ... more

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