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Chicks on Speed are a female electroclash band, born when Alex and Melissa met at the Munich Art Academy in 1997. Chicks on Speed’s core members are Melissa Logan (Upstate NY, USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Bowral, Australia), who collaborate with amongst others Anat Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kathi Glas (Berlin, Germany) and A.L. Steiner (NY, USA). Around Chicks on Speed there is grouped a large and ever-changing collective of musicians, producers, fashion and graphic artists, designers, film and video makers, and so on. Though usually considered part of such musical genres as electroclash, actually Chicks on Speed started as a multidisciplinary art group, who applied punk-inspired DIY ethic to performance art, collage graphics and home-made fashion (they have created their own stage costumes with cheap and recycled material such as plastic bags and gaffa tape, for example). They originally got their name when they earned some extra money at art galleries by hanging paintings to the walls, and someone quipped that they worked like “chicks on speed”. They had their own club nights at Munich’s Seppi Bar: Chicks on Speed had created an installation piece which was called “I Wanna Be A DJ, Baby”, where they stood behind DJ decks and smashed records while a sound collage tape was playing. For this project they also put together a “box set” with a T-shirt, a cassette, a paper record and a fake interview for their “band”, at this stage yet imaginary.

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jimmy_zero wrote:
Friday morning

super surfer girl duck dive, hang five!

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nawigator86 wrote:
12 days ago

very nice music

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love_and_caring wrote:
15 days ago

GURL! http://www.last.fm/group/Stripper+Stilettos WOO! who said tacky shoes brought bad musical taste?

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Stoov wrote:
last month

The new album rules ! I love Chicks on speed !

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Ohrenweide wrote:
October 2009

Kaltes klares Wasser (Kalt & Klar) Über meine Körper.....

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FrankFeranna wrote:
October 2009

Chicks on Speed rules! Anybody like the Gossip? That's my dream tour... Chicks and Beth Ditto together. The new Gossip is great. http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gossip

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martaintasca wrote:
October 2009

Geniusssssss (^____^)

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ideaprison wrote:
October 2009

i just lost 6minutes of my life. Hoozah!

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yr_dog wrote:
September 2009

kinda funny.

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Laurandix wrote:
September 2009

its so much fun listening to their music.. i like it, i really do. its not that everyday stuff. just bought the new album and im glad i did. :)

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bleachgeek4973 wrote:
September 2009

Please join http://www.last.fm/group/TECHNO+HYPE it's for those who like techno and electronica

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LiTTle-HoRn wrote:
September 2009

LOL!!!!! the new album is kinda good! ^^ like it!

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bluedishes wrote:
September 2009

love lifeeeeeeeeeeeee oun

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MrPaddy wrote:
August 2009

Chicks on Speed = Win!

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fadviral wrote:
August 2009

Can any of you, by any chance, play guitars?

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JamesleBong wrote:
August 2009

Ich hab gestern aus versehen den Auftritt in Kampnagel gesehen.... .....die Fans fanden es toll.

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OMGiTzOJesus wrote:
August 2009

I remember these guys supporting Red Hot Chili Peppers at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium and they got booed and bottled off, they played a reallly really horribly bad set

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EmongFM wrote:
August 2009

Art Rules! Love the new album =P

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not0your0nerd wrote:
August 2009

I got two of their albums when i was in europe and I lost one! I love the one I still have (cutting the edge) but if anyone can send me the one I lost, "Will save us all!" I would love you forever. or if you have any songs from their previous albums that would be cool. I dont buy stuff on-line so its ahrd to find their stuff where I live.

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stewarthome wrote:
July 2009

You groove me!

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