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▀▓█▄ ARTiST...: Chicks on Speed and the No Heads ▄▓█▀
▀█▄▄ ALBUM....: Press the Spacebar ▄▄█▀
▄▀ ▄ LABEL....: Chicks on Speed Records COSR19CD ▄ ▀▄
▀▓██▄ GENRE....: Electronic ▄▓██▀
▐███▌ MEDiA....: CDDA ▐███▌
▄▓███▀ RELEASED.: Oct-26-2004 ▀▓███▄
▄████▀ SiZE.....: 89,7 MB ▀████▄
▄▓██▓▀ LENGTH...: 55:22 min ▀████▄
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██▌ 01 The Household Song 02:21 ▐██
██▌ 02 Mitte Bitte 05:38 ▐██
██▌ 03 Class War 03:47 ▐██
██▌ 04 Culture Vulture Part Two 03:33 ▐██
██▌ 05 Culture Vulture Part Three 01:25 ▐██
██▌ 06 Ten Thousand Years 05:12 ▐██
██▌ 07 History Will Outlive Us 04:35 ▐██
██▌ 08 Madalyn Albrights Answer 06:12 ▐██
██▌ 09 Is Bigger Better 04:56 ▐██
██▌ 10 Fuzzy Nipple 02:57 ▐██
██▌ 11 Wax My Anus 06:55 ▐██
██▌ 12 Hand In My Pocket 05:53 ▐██
██▌ 13 My Pony 01:58 ▐██
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██▌ 55:22 min ▐██
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██▌ Notes: ▐██
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██▌ The Fourth full length CHICKS ON SPEED album after "Will Save Us All" and last years "99cents" sees them ▐██
██▌ radically turn away from the synthetic electroclash approach, they are often misleadingly associated with and ▐██
▐███▄ team up with the spanish band the No Heads and the producer Cristian Vogel to deliver their most collectively ▄███▌
▀████experimental record to date, that will remind people of The Shags, Sonic Youth, The Raincoats, Pixies, Violent ▄▓███▀
▀▓█Femmes, The Bangles, Can, Beefheart & the Magic Band , Bananarama, Bongwater, ESG and the Flying ▄▓███▀
▀Lizzards..and which still is impossible to place anywhere. ▄████▀
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▀It was back in 2000 @ Sonar, when COS first saw Cristian Vogel playing with the legendary band, Super ▄████▀
Collider, captivated by their performance and never to forget their first meeting, the COS always dreamt of▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████▀
working with Cristian. Years later on a very early morning at Ultraschall in Munich, the legendary electronic ▐███▌
music club, they encountered each other once again, this time, to make devious plans of making music ▀▓██▄
▀together. Group News ▀ ▄▀
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▀The planing came to fruition and THE COS went to Barcelona to start work on an album in early 2003. Onroup News ▀ ▄▀
▄█arrival, Cristian presented COS with a book, titled The New Music by Reginald Smith Brindle inspiring the 3 to ▀▀▓▄
▄▓█▀ create a score for one another to improvise to. The score was on large pieces of paper, including drawings of ▀▓█▄
▐▓█▌ lines, biscuit crumbs, and its execution involved recording smashed cooky crumbs, poly styrene being rubbed ▐██▌
▀▓█▄ on drums, an old synth, a radio mic tuning in and out of Spanish radio, walking up and down stairs andlooking for: ▄▓█▀
▀▀samples of other strange near by environmental happenings. This piece of improvised occurrences is titled ▄■▀▀
"Hand in My Pocket" on the final Album. ▐▌
- Pre-Release\Tuesday Rippers ▐▌
Each day was a surprise in the studio, more and more people started to show up, and work on the album andpers ▐▌
eventually all became a type of band, playing found instruments, percussion, old synths and traditional █
instruments. The band members included Panoxa, Enric and Tony, all having a rich history of experience at █
various capacities within the Barcelona music scene. █
- Shell or BNC providers █
The daily creative work process was varying, from almost whole day long jam sessions with COS, Cristian █
and the band, to COS writing lyrics to the sounds which were being generated and developed in the next █
room. It was living experimentation on a daily basis and everything was being recorded and twisted into songs █
with a live recipe. The jam session room was clus-tered with an array instruments: Korg MS 20, an MS 10, a █
Moog, paint spatulas, a wooden flute, other strange shaped wooden percussion objects, guitars, bass, drums █
connected to trigger pads which fed a sampler, that was connected to Cristian┤s computer, air fx,any of those please █
a Sherman Filter bank and Dr Boss sampler. █
such as Heidi Mortenson on the Melodica on Class War. █
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From the first day of jamming in Barcelona COS believed that this 3rd album should essen-tially draw █
reference to The Shags (late 60┤s) and bands like the Raincoats and other do it yourself bands of the late ▓▌
70┤s, in approach and their beliefs in the disorder of music, through methods of musical delivery and how to ■█▄
▄█play an already existing instrument. These initial ideas mutated into an album far more reaching than the initialC sour FRAGMENT ACiD ▀▓▄
▐█▌source of inspiration COS had. PRESS THE SPACE BAR is an eclectic array of ideas, culminating through ▐█▌
▀█lyrical content and and a fresh, but rough and dynamic musical approach. Song lyrics included collaging ▄█▀
together texts, from boring hum drum, rock and roll yellow press, as on the perversely delivered "Wax my ▄█▀
▄ Anus", a Song about the life of Courtney Love, to the politics of America and George Bush┤s "CLASS WAR",▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▄▄ ▄
wthmission and role to advance culture through music, fashion, graphics, film and ways of doing plain business.cs."