Chicks on Speed: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

• Videos
• Photos
• Groups/Boards
• Fan Sites

• Add N to (X)
• Le Tigre
• Atari Teenage Riot
• Super_Collider
• Stereo Total
• Christopher Just
• DJ Hell

• Lizzy Mercier Descloux
• Fad Gadget
• Pet Shop Boys
• Delta 5
• Human League
• The Raincoats
• Yoko Ono

• Sylvester Boy

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, Club Dance Music

Decades Active:

1990's|2000's

Artistic Quality

Low

Cultural Impact

Low

Ratings Guide

Munich's electronic pop/multimedia trio Chicks on Speed features former New Yorker Melissa Logan, Australian Alex Murray-Leslie, and Munich native Kiki Moorse. Along with crafting deconstructed, feminist-leaning synth pop, the group also runs Go Records, Stop Records, and Chicks on Speed Records; designs video and print graphics and art installations; and makes and sells avant-garde paper and leather clothing. Appropriate to their arty, Eurotrash vibe, Moorse, Logan, and Murray-Leslie met in 1997 at a bar near Munich's Art Academy. Soon after, they were releasing limited-edition, critically-acclaimed singles such as Smash Metal, which pitted the group against Patrick Pulsinger, DMX Krew, and DJ Hell (whose album Munich Machine they also appeared on), as well as the ironic, pseudo-house anthem Glamour Girl. Their live shows ranged from appearances at 2000's ~Love Parade festival to touring with Console and Super Collider to gigs at renovated mental hospitals. Mid-2000 saw the release of their debut album Will Save Us All; later that year, the rarities collection The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases was issued by K Records in the U.S. Monsters Rule This World was issued that same year.

- Heather Phares, All Music Guide