Christian Vogel meets Chicks on Speed

[taktik]

I just read in the chicksonspeedrecords - diko b - newsletter, that there will be a new chicks-album this fall produced by christian vogel (!!!) What do you think about this mixture?

[tsr_robban]

wicked !

[jukka]

the idea sounds good to me !!!
must be an interesting crash if true :illin:

[pille'ocheoni]

sounds curious-id like to see cv do a spin on some d&b-or good ol southern rock-..............free bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehe!@

[Sheridan]

I am scared.

[Ruben A]

At chicks on speeds homepage I read somekind of a diary from July where they mentioned their visit in Cris´ studio.. They loved it!


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19 july 2002

by Alex:

we are in the studio with cristian vogel, i think this is the first time we've made music!

18 july 2002

by Melissa:

barcelona is hot, it's really amazing to work with cristian
vogel, we have some guys playing drums, bass & guitar --
yes, it's a completely different sound happening.


i keep on calling mika and ilpo of pan sonic but no one answers.

13 july 2002

by Alex:

first day in the studio with cristian vogel.

we are making the song 'hand in my pocket'.

>>>>>



:D :D :D

[Articulate]

that's quite true. heard it few weeks ago too..
i am waiting for some good crunchy voco-electro ...

[namshub]

fukkin right on christian!!! this will be killer:O)....YAY!!

[Tomoki]

Normally the Chicks are collaborating with Tobi Neumann and that’s definitely not my cup of tea. So I hope this collaboration with Cristian is better.

[old skool]

What sort of music do Chicks On Speed play then ?

[tsr_tomas]

wiiii, when will it be relese, any date´s yet ?
got to get it !

bojackachan.

[Lady E]

half the album has beeen produced and the rest will be done nov - dec this year

i dont know when it will be released, but i noticed it said "this fall" on that newsletter, i dont think so! sometime next year

yes well the new tracks are fucking great, its very new wave, kind of ESG meets babes in toyland and tortoise, with obvious cristian bits of production, but it doesnt sound like much like either cristian or the chicks.

if you catch the chicks live they are doing some of them in their set i believe

old skool: chicks do synth pop / new wave experimentalism in a grrl style,huge influences are the Normal (warm leatherette) and the B-52s.

[old skool]

The Normal ? Was that summat to do with Daniel Miller/Mute pre Depeche Mode ??

And I think I've only heard a couple of charty tunes by the B52's .....

[Tomoki]

I’ve seen them twice, the first time it was in a little club here in Frankfurt and the party was superb, the second time was at the gigolo party in 2000, unfortunately the Chicks only made a 20 minutes playback show, this was definitely not a good performance.

What’s your favourite song of them? Mine is “Glamour Girl”. I know the text word by word.
It’s one of the best pop songs in my opinion. But who was the producer? Patrick Pulsinger?

have a look http://www.chicksonspeed.com/

[wheezer]

I think christopher just produced glamour girl...

I saw them do a full playback here in Hki last year but it still fucking rocked, the chicks are more phenomenon than music anyways imho.

did anybody else catch the sylvesterboy album on their own label? pretty funny stuff, plus one of the weirdest music videos ever...

[Hiro]

>Sheridan-- I am scared.

Me too.. but that is definitely a good thing-

They played here a while back and it was a great show- I did wonder though- Were they just travelling light at the time? Do they ever play instruments live?

I enjoyed the show- I'm sure I will enjoy the cos/vogel collision.

[Lady E]

old skool: yes you are right the normal is danny miller and was the first record on mute...i think. i believe he set it up to release his own band

the B-52s are a really great band and their chart hits dont really do them justice, although love shack is a great song.

my favourite album at the moment of theirs is Mesopotamia (produced by David Byrne), but whammy! is good or any of the early hits albums with planet claire and rock lobster and stuff on .

the chicks cover "give me back my man" on chicks on speed will save us all, i think

[old skool]

@Emma

You know your tunes don't ya .... I couldn't imagine turning round to my mates and asking to borrow a B52's album. I think I'd just see a load of blank faces ....!!

As for Chicks on Speed.... well I've known a few in my time and tend to avoid them these days ;-)

I've got this growing list of music to check out ....

[zombie ritual]

The B52's coverversions-EP they did is a really great listen, it's also punkier, despite definitely electronic, than their usual stuff. You should check that out.

[Weishaupt]

Chicks on speed?

No.

[V Knid esq]

I think Chicks On Speed have been steadily improving - the Chix-52 EP and the tracks they did with Kreidler are definitely the best things I've heard of theirs. I am very much looking forward to hearing what Cristian can bring out of them.

[V Knid esq]

Alos, I think it is a VERY good thing that they are experimenting with more organic sounds and moving away from the pure 80s electropop thing, as they could so easily be tagged 'godmothers of electroclash' if they're not careful.

[wheezer]

yeh the chix-52 ep is gr8, I agree.

planet claire has got to be one of my alltime fave songs, brings back some rather funkadelic childhood memories...

savas pascalidis did a pretty minimal electro track on lasergun some time ago that used the melody from "planet claire", fun stuff, if a bit cheeky...

oh and the warm leatherette cover ep the chix did back in the day is quite alright too, although nothing comes close to the original imho...

[Lady E]

yes i certainly was a chick on speed myself but not for many years now thank the lord. nothing compares to the grey, paradoid blankness of a speed comedown for sheer misery

[old skool]

I'm with you on that one mate. A nasty drug.

[V Knid esq]

I will FIGHT for the honour of Sulphate, and I have Lester Bangs, John Lydon, Richard D James, Jack Kerouac, Lemmy, Philip K Dick, the Velvet Underground, The Small Faces, Shane Macgowan, Julian Cope and Dougal & Vibes on my side to back me up. Or would do if they weren't all so paranoid that they started fighting amongst themselves.

[old skool]

Heh .. Dougal and Vibes ... quality ....

[V Knid esq]

Whizzy water? Bosh - sorted.

[old skool]

Feel the rush. Feel the vibe. Reach for the sky. Erm eat some, err pie.

Whizzy pie.

I'll actually admit to wandering in (accidentally of course) into the Happy Hardcore arena at World Dance a couple of years back and I probably had more fun in there than anywhere else that night.

I don't think I've actually seen 10,000 people that twatted before.

Friendly bunch of kids like.

Tune of the night, some superfast hands in the air version of "She's as cold as ice ! Ain't no sacrifice dum de dum"

[V Knid esq]

I had a similar experience at a tribal gathering a while ago... however, I couldn't handle more than 10 minutes at a time of the teeth-grinding lunacy of it all. I just popped in there from time to time for a couple of minutes to boost energy levels and blow out the cobwebs. I think the big tune that year was the helium version of "died in your arms tonight"... what is it about 80s soft rock and appy ardkore?

[old skool]

I can just imagine a live pa with Whitesnake and MC Sharkey.

Heh, sounds a laff that to be honest.

It seems weird but most of the Fiesta XR3i's you see bombing around these days are not playing Bonkers3 anymore, its more your Aya Napia type stuff that's belting out.

Happy Hardcore must be the new underground now. I mean you get Judge Jules playing Joel Mull records these days so it can't be Techno anymore.

[Sheridan]

A year and a half ago a friend of mine played at a club and had to follow a happy hardcore dj. The second record he dropped was anthony rother's "destroy him my robots". a nice change of mood, dont you think??

[old skool]

A change for the better methinks. What was their reaction like ?

[Sheridan]

it cleared the dance floor. the happy hardcore kids were not impressed.
that and their glowsticks were fading.

[mini]

@wheezer:
u know sylvesterboy?! crazy album but absolutely correct, do you know whos the man behind sylvesterboy-worldwidetoy?

[wheezer]

@mini

I have the album in my posession, yes. I saw the video for one of the tracks on viva II fastforward with the chix as guests, really funny stuff - sylvesterboy dancing around a termite mound with a plastic sword and american flag for a cape...

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
I will FIGHT for the honour of Sulphate, and I have Lester Bangs, John Lydon, Richard D James, Jack Kerouac, Lemmy, Philip K Dick, the Velvet Underground, The Small Faces, Shane Macgowan, Julian Cope and Dougal & Vibes on my side to back me up. Or would do if they weren't all so paranoid that they started fighting amongst themselves.

I read an article, which came about because the US are constituitionally required to release sensitive info after a set period of time, that;

Philip K Dick wrote to the FBI asking their assistance in cracking a conspiracy to spread his works across the US, using a specially coded variant of the syphillis virus... Shortly afterwards he reported that his house and been broken into and vital papers stolen, then he disappeared for a period of months....

His then wife commented "At the time he was taking massive quantities of methamphetamine, I think he was a little paranoid"

Hmm, you reckon...?

[Sheridan]

I will never forget the white van that sat out in front of me and my friends apartment for like 3 days. we swore up and down that it was the DEA doing surveilence on us because we were so hopped up on glass. I am glad those days are long gone.



"sirah, sirah!! cover me, cover me!!"

[V Knid esq]

White vans? Pah! I've got Black Helicopters hovering just on the edge of my peripheral vision.

[amble]

you saw lots of "airwolf", didn't you?

[Andre Jacobs]

i think that is a very wicked idea.
good luck

[mini]

@wheezer:
its schorsch kamerun .
the singer from band "die goldenen zitronen"
u know it?

[wheezer]

@mini

I was not aware of that! at that fast forward show the chix explained something about how they met sylvesterboy at some bar in the us or something... obviously a fabricated story...

[mini]

i wont belivie its kamerun, its so strange...you dont expect that...
but i am really shure he is.

[Lady E]

hey i know die golden zitronen!

Upstart from Disko B gave cristian one of their albums once and we used to really like it, i cant remember it much now though.

so there we go - it sounds to me that the Munich connection is the answer

and why do you call New Year's Eve Sylvester in Germany?

[mini]

@emma:
cool, its seldom (right word?) that somebody knows die goldenen zitronen! they are from hamburgh and started die hamburger schule(also other artists like rocko schamoni and later, tocotronic in a strange way:).
its a special way to make and do music, i cant explain that in english.
they have really funny, ironic and zynical song-text, most in german.
but please look out for sylvesterboys "monsters rule this world".great lp, with english lyrics...

[zombie ritual]

The Goldenen Zitronen are a band that can not be mentioned enough, they're really a long existing punk band (I believe, since 1982 or so?) who, in the 80ies, were producing more "fun" oriented stuff, got to a low point but recovered from it during the 90ies, becoming serious musically as well as lyrically. The last four albums are all great and all very punk in the truely original sense (i.e. not just bland three chord rock music, but experimenting with music using a fierce, fucking-things-up approach), although others would just call it a mixture of no-wave and electronics. Also check out Schorsch Kamerun's solo cd "Warum Ändern Schlief" on L'age d'or, I think, even weirder than all the Zitronen-stuff.

[mini]

@zombie:
what about 0:30gleiches ambiente???
its my absolutely favourite...and this video.fuckin great!

[amble]

"..ohh woow, ich liebe dieses Lied. Moby hat so eine tolle Stimme!"lol

[jukka]

Originally posted by emma
hey i know die golden zitronen!

Upstart from Disko B gave cristian one of their albums once and we used to really like it, i cant remember it much now though.

so there we go - it sounds to me that the Munich connection is the answer

and why do you call New Year's Eve Sylvester in Germany?

good question you ask why we call new years eve sylvester in germany.......i don't know....i allwyays thougt (until three years befor or so ) it is called sylvester everywher 8-()

and die goldenen zitronen are really cool band....have one lp at home but can't remember the name at the momet.

für immer tod das möchte ich sein, für immer tot.......

[wheezer]

@mini

where did you hear that, btw?

that was pretty interesting news for me in any case!

@emma

here's why we crazy germans give it a different name:

<a href="http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010499.htm">http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010499.htm</a>

[zombie ritual]

@ mini: of course I know 0:30 gleiches Ambiente. Great lyrics, remind me so much of people I know in person:-). Never managed to see any Zitronen-video, though, except the one of "Das bisschen Totschlag".

[mini]

@all:
great you all know them, it makes me calm down:)
@amble:
you remember that day and that moment in car when we went to S_C concert in berlin?!
...hast du den neuen quentin tärenteinooo schon gesehn?
ohhh ich liebe quentin tärenteiiinoooooo!
ach ja, bist du diesen freitag im kassa zu jori hulkkonen?
wenn ja sehmer unsdort
@wheezer:
ive heard it from a good friend of mine behind universal!
he was workin for years together with such artists, this lucky guy!

[mini]

i forget to say to u all:

look 0:30-gleiches ambiente!!!!!!
its the one of the BEST videos ive ever seen!
not to metion all the others from die goldenen zitronen!
and@wheezer:
what are you doing in finland?
i always have a laugh at the first 2 numbers:)
yksi, kaksi(cant write it correct!) sounds like fix&foxy

[wheezer]

@mini

it's a looong story, but basically now I'm studying cs here.

[mini]

@wheezer:
i think the adminis would be REALLY HAPPY if you write the whole story at this page:)
you can do a new forum "why wheezer stucks in finland"
tss, do you know jori hulkkonen? hes from helsinki, i think...

[amble]

Originally posted by wheezer
@mini

it's a looong story, but basically now I'm studying cs here.

you're studying counter strike?? now what a fancy lesson that is.

i wonder what exams look like.