HER 他 Transmission 048:  Chicks on Speed

Welcome back to another Transmission broadcasting from the HER 他 Transmission Mix Series, a weekly mix series showcasing incredible and amazing artists from around the world. For the 48th edition, we bring you a mix from No-wave and Electroclash pioneers, Chicks on Speed.

Chicks on Speed are poly artists who spend their time working within and in between the realms of Pop Music, Art and Science. The group was founded in Munich in 1997 by Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie. Gaining cult status throughout the 200s as a catalyst of the music genre Electroclash, the now collaborative system of rotating members that is Chicks on speed has always been at the forefront of the feminist art movement. 

For their HER Transmission, they have compiled this playlist and left the following note attached to the Transmission.

Playlist compiled by Chicks on Speed/Melissa E. Logan NY/Berlin.March 2021 for HER, DJ Shadow, aka Cloudy. Taiwan/Melbourne. 

“We thank the friends, family and collaborators involved in the process. Spread the music - like the rings in a tree all times and generations have their particular sounds. What might sound unusual today will be integrated into the norm within a ___(my dad used to say it took 12 years for this avant-garde to become the normalized or even main-stream, I know it is much faster in our accelerationist times. Making challenging art, not the polished up, to fit into the now. Perhaps sometimes bubblegum, but hay, it is not just for today, it can seep into tomorrow because bubblegum is a curved, multiverse stretch.”

Please enjoy the mix and remember to support, share, and be kind to everyone!

HER 他 Transmission 048:  Chicks on Speed Tracklist
1). Cosma Trauma — Dat Politics 
2). Internet - Ortis Remix — VooCha 
3). just Can't Touch Anything remix —Nikki Click
4). Illusion — MADMOIZEL
5). Al Atlal Performative — Jana Salah
6). Azadi — DJ Spooky, Sussan Deyhim
7). Purry Purry - Eric D. Clark Remix — VooCha
8).  Automatic Music — Stereo Total
9). Pexember — Heja Netirk
10). Temporary Gallery — VooCha
11). Utopia — Chicks on Speed & Christopher Just
12). Orgone Bo — Jakob S. Boeskov & Emmanuel Top "Rubycon" © Oblique Music
13). Ribbons —Trudy Veremu tinmusical.com
14). Ne Ne —Heja Netirk


Additional Comment:
Orgone Bo from the album Lord Algorithm by Jakob S. Boesko (Music on "Orgone Bo" by Emmanuel Top "Rubycon" © Oblique Music)

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Teenage lifestyle Cindy Wonderful remix

In Ha Mood

Ice Spice - In Ha Mood

Señor Sapo is a character created based on the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl:
while capturing Sr. Sapo atop The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
in The Valley of Mexico; dawn…
Augie Robles (the photographer) spotted an elementary school class of around 25 children with two teachers suddenly appear scaling the momentous stair case behind our subject!
They shouted;
“Sr. Sapo! Sr. Sapo!”
the name has stuck! they wanted to have their pictures taken with Sr. Sapo? however; they did not want to touch him as they thought his skin might be “viscoso” or “slimy”?

“Q’uq’umatz” (as it is known amongst the K’iche’ Maya) goes back to the Olmec culture and represents the duality of flight to reach the skies; whereas the reptilian (in most cases a snake) represents the ability to mingle amongst other creatures of the Earth;
Among the Aztecs he was related to the gods of wind; of the dawn; of merchants and arts; crafts; knowledge and the planet Venus: as well as their patron god of the priesthood…

THE FUTURE S0UND 0f YESTERDAY is as well a construct of the imagination; a fictitious “orchestra” with many imaginary characters; KENT CHESTERFiElD; LEE NAilZ; PHATTITUDE; EPiPHANY TALEUR; ThE ClARKETTES (they actually exist in the “real” world)…

The titles:
“0de to A Tree”;
is the culmination of a night out in Berlin; “…met a young man in a bar close to the “atelier”; he said he wanted to play something on a piano; we go to the place and he plays this melody over a rhythm though not in rhythm?
…basically edited none of it; then used a series of tone generators and filters to change the sound into all the soundscapes you hear in the final piece; the title was simply a tribute to the trees…” Eric D. Clark

“is it good to Ya’?”;
is a slow pumping House song with a message in the form of a question; “is it good for you?” as in “I could do it; however; should I? you know; look in a mirror and ask the question”…
the Music came about as an experiment at NADEL EiNS Studio in Berlin; Heavy bass at around 116bpm plus Erix’s cheeky vocal stylings weaving in & out of frame (as well key) deliver a unique aural experience!

the final track:
“Elsewhere playback”
is literally the playback of a track Eric did under the guise of KENT CHESTERFIELD for a party series he did in Sacramento CA with AJ Sachs…
it’s really just a tool; the good thing is you can drop -8 (or -16 assuming your tables are tuned) to bring it to a tempo one could easily rap over OR push it up to +8 and have a dry Tech number? Either way it BANGS! Dub Plates & Mastering did a swell job!!

overall a must for any Dance Music aficionado’s collection out on October 10th on SHADDOCK RECORDS !

All Songs executed & produced in the ¡SUBCURRENT! by €DC
publisher: SUBCURRENT MEDiA™️ ©️
executive producer: Eric D. Clark
© Shaddock Records - SHK14

SHK14 B2 Elsewhere Playback - Snippet

SHK14 B1 Is It Good For You - Snippet

SHK14 A Owed To The Tree - Snippet

First single off my EP Demon's Demise. OUT NOW!!
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp19c1YQ5lw
Produced by Stuart B http://stuartbproductions.com/web/
Lyrically written by Davey Duzit.
Released 01-12-15 ©

Popcorn Pop

NYE 2016

queer femme pop, diva in the house, she's like a, little minnie mouse, she's nickyclick and she's gonna make ur mouth, drop uh huhhhhh
track from my third and new album "metaphorically, of course" 
out 2012 on crunks not dead records

queer femme Pop Diva by nickyclick

Vocals/Lyrics by Blu 
Music/Production by Lee Black
Band/Project: Apathica

Fragile Fixation

My new single 2018.
Produced by Standish Child.
Mixed by Stuart B.
Mastered by Nathan at Matrix Audio.
Lyrically written by Davey Duzit.

Everybody's Eyes on Me

“Freaks, you can call me Mom,” Nicky Click boldly proclaims on her newest album. Given her lengthy career, she’s got the creds to back it up. Born in New Hampshire, she began making music in 2003 and was once described by SF Weekly as a “one-woman feminist electro band.” Influenced equally by riot grrl and pop divas, she released her first album, You’re Already A Member, right as the DIY-electro and queercore boom of the mid-aughts was gaining steam.

Nicky built a fanbase the old-fashioned way, through constant international touring and festival appearances alongside Peaches, The Gossip, Lady Sovereign, Gravy Train!!!, Scream Club, and Kin4Life. Each Nicky Click show is a personal and political queer feminist statement wrapped up in a dance party. She makes many of her own wigs and outrageous stage costumes, and she’s performed and headlined at pride festivals, dives, hotels, bars, and film festivals; catching airplay on radio stations and gracing the pages of art and literary magazines. She manages to seamlessly blend spectacle with introspection, so it’s no surprise that when she released her second album in 2008, the video for the title track, “I’m On My Cell Phone,” became one of Logo’s most-played. 

Nicky Click has continued to push herself as an artist, allowing her sound to evolve and often experimenting with different genres, including alt-folk. Her sixth album, titled Reductive Nostalgia, explores the intangible but universal feeling of losing something to time, but not knowing quite what that something is or whether you ever really had it in the first place. The album dips into more reflective territory than Nicky’s previous efforts, and was produced almost entirely by Portland, Oregon’s Mickey Pollizatto, resulting in a truly cohesive sound and tone. Nicky and Mickey began working on this album together in the spring of 2020. Having toured together and collaborated on an album in the past, they already had a deep spiritual and musical connection. On Reductive Nostalgia, the two collaborated remotely to craft a collection of songs that speaks deeply to a time when the world is on the verge of so much change and the temptation to romanticize the past is high.

On “Robot,” which was co-written by Nicky’s thirteen-year-old niece, Emma, Nicky and guest producer Jeremy Gloff layer Nicky’s pop-sweet vocals over a squelchy, dynamic beat. On “Gone Fishing,” Nicky sings about finding love during a time of sobriety, and takes those themes further on “I Just Can’t Touch Anything,” which explores pandemic-specific anxieties about the danger and necessity of connection. Deftly deploying themes of anxiety again on “Life Cycle,” Nicky takes on the topic of mental health with deeply relatable lines like, “the higher you go / the further you come down” and “not on the same page / but it all was a lie anyway.” And on the #MeToo-inspired “Ghosts In the Attic,” Nicky addresses being a survivor with razor-sharp insight, singing “once I learned it / I wanted to return it” over a twitchy beat.

The album as a whole was an experiment in creating and recording during a pandemic. For the first time in her career, Nicky recorded the entire album herself, sometimes in the isolation of quarantine. But Reductive Nostalgia is proof that when one thing is lost, something else is gained. “The pandemic caused so much anxiety for me,” Nicky explains. “But that anxiety led to the deepening of certain relationships, and made me want to create, to do everything to the fullest extent possible, but also look back on the past and appreciate everything that’s happened. I think I’ve learned to feel more content.” She sums this sentiment up perfectly on the album’s title track, bringing us full-circle with the lines, “I want more / I wanna eat the apple to the core / yeah, I really want ya / thinking ’bout you back in the day.”

Throughout Reductive Nostalgia, Nicky’s lyrics are simultaneously playful and poignant, gazing back at the past.

queer femme Pop Diva by nickyclick

NickyClick; queer femme diva with a hot new album👠

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