- Messer Chups
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Messer Chups is an experimental band from St.Petersburg, Russia. The band was founded by Oleg Gitarkin who had previously performed with Oleg Kostrow under the name of Messer für Frau Müller. Messer Chups is often considered a "spin-off" band of Messer für Frau Müller. The band was originally a duo of Gitarkin on bass guitar and Annette Schneider who played the synths. In period 2000-2002 Messer Chups consisits of Gitarkin and Igir Vdovin on Synth.
In 2003, the producer of Messer Chups and head of homelabel Solnze Records, Oleg Tarasov, invited the world famous theremin player, Lydia Kavina, to join them. Together they have released several albums and reworked their previous releases. In 2005, Messer Chups became a duo consisting of Gitarkin and ZombieGirl on bass. In 2007, they became a trio, with drummer Denis "Kashey" Kuptzov from the famous band, Leningrad. In 2008, they changed their drummer to Alexander Belkok, and Alexander Skvortzov became their vocalist.
Messer Chups' music often features a foundation of surf drums on which they build collages of samples from odd sources, like circus music, jazz, east European animation soundtracks, and American B-pictures. On top of that they lay guitar solos and theremin.
Albums
Messer Chups:
- Chudovishe & Chudovishe (Beast and the Beast)(aka Monster & Monster) (1999)MC,CD
- Miss Libido (2000)MC,CD
- Bride Of The Atom (2000)MC,CD
- Vamp Babes (2000)MC,CD
- Black Black Magic (2002)CD
- The Best Of Messer Chups: Cocktail Draculina (2002)CD
- Crazy Price (2003)CD
- Vamp Babes Upgrade Version 2004 (2004)CD
- Crazy Price (new version)(2005)CD
- Hyena Safari (2005)CD
- Hyena Safari(2nd version)(2006)CD
- Zombie Shopping (2007)CD
- Best of The Best (2008) LP/CD
- Heretic Channel (2009) CD/LP
- Bermuda 66 (2010) CD
Messer für Frau Müller:
- Merry Bormans (1991) unreleased
- Happy End Dead (1992)MC,CD released in 2000
- Little Joys (1992)MC,CD released in 2000
- Senjors Crakovjac (1993)MC, LP 1994 ,CD 2000
- Icicle-Murders (1995)MC
- Nechelovek-Vidimka (1996) MC
- „Hello, Superman!“ (1998)MC, CD
- Second Hand Dreams (2000)MC,CD
- Allo, Superman! (2000)CD incl. 3 bonus tracks
- Hyper Utesov Presents (2001)CD
- Second Hand Dreams (2001)CD incl. 3 bonus tracks
- Treugol'nik, Chert I Tochka ( 2003)CD
- Remixodelica (2005)CD
- Triangle, Dot & Devil (2006)CD
- Danger Retrobolik (2006) CD
- Wake Up The Dead (2008) CD / (2009) LP
Messer Chups & Messer für Frau Müller video DVD 2006 Messer Chups video DVD 2008
External links
Categories:- Russian musical groups
- Russian electronic music groups
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