Music: GIRL MONSTER

The triple compilation "GIRL MONSTER" is a guide through the history of cutting edge music made by women from the late 70ies to present day, featuring female heroes of the late 70ies and early 80ies like Ana da Silva, Björk and The Slits, alongside contemporary classics like Björk, Le Tigre, Peaches, Chicks On Speed, Barbara Morgenstern, Le Tigre, Sir Alice or Lesbians on ecstasy, among others. I discovered in at "Colette" in Paris, where else?...

The Triple CD compilation “GIRL MONSTER” comes from the "Chicks On Speed" Record label and celebrates the history and future of women's creative music output, to "further invent and challenge the future of music and push the boundaries of sound and pop around the world"!!! "GIRL MONSTER" is a music manifesto for the feminine cause, combining pleasure and attitude.

"GIRL MONSTER tells a rich historical story, from the original girl monsters of punk and post punk to contemporary tricksters and electro-rock pranksters… (…) But what sets the compilation apart from all the other compilations around the topic of “Women and Music” is that it is not just a collection of what everybody knows already, packaged under the misleading slogan of “Women in Rock”, instead this compilation creates a movement of its own, containing 2/3 of exclusive tracks, showcasing some of the finest (and mostly unreleased) tracks from a worldwide underground network of female musicians, even following in the tracks of some of the classics like Tina Weymouth (Tomtom Club/Talking Heads) , Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) , Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees), or Ana Da Sliva (The Raincoats) by featuring their latest productions."

Since 1999, the group "Chicks On Speed" has had an its agenda to subvert certain conventions of the pop music world, of consumption and of the arts. New York Underground classic „Launderette“ by Vivien Goldman (with John Lydon as co-producer and Robert Wyatt on percussion !) offers one of the best moments, directly out of the 80s, while more recent promises such as "Le Tigre" and "Erase Errata" use woman condition as inspiration for their music, following a more militant approach. "Japanese Intelligence Mind Control" is another good moment and an instrumental break among a lot of shouting and loads of attitude. There are new and exclusive tracks by Chicks on Speed and Angie Reed (produced by Eric D. Clark) as well as more exclusive new tracks by the up-coming Kids on TV and Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable (feat. Peaches) along-side the smashing Client song (that features Pete Doherty).

Here the track listing:

CD1:

1. Girlmonster Intro 2. Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable "Fine As Fuck" (ft. Peaches) 3. Mignon "Demons Of Love" 4. Le Tigre "Hot Topic" 5. Barbara Morgenstern "Mountain Place" 6. Angie Reed "G. G. (Gaudy Good)" 7. Pam Hogg "Honeyland" 8. Rhythm King & Her Friends "Speedometer" 9. Hanin Elias "Get It Back" 10. Kevin Blechdom "Me Saw Me Momma" 11. Ana Da Silva "Full Moon" 12. Anat Ben David "Virtual Leisure" 13. Sir Alice "Super Hero" 14. Chicks On Speed "Plastic Surgery" 15. Vivien Goldman "Laundrette" 16. Tina Weymouth "Incognito" 17. Client "Down To The Underground" 18. Kids On TV "Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix)" 19. Boyskout "School Of Etiquette" 20. Erase Errata "Dust" 21. No Bra "No Woman No Crime"

CD2:

1. Pulsallama "Ungawa Part 2 (Remix)" 2. The Slits "Typical Girls (Live)" 3. Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Buisness" 4. Cherry Sunkist "Nameless Dogs" 5. Japanese Intelligence Mind Control "Get the Picture" 6. Autonervous "Anchors Away" 7. Cobra Killer "Mister Chang" 8. Planningtorock "Changes" 9. Hanayo "Pita Pata" 10. Björk "Storm" 11. Tobi Vail "Panic of the Square" 12. Gustav "We Shall Overcome" 13. Bonnie vs. Hunter "Our Inventions" 14. François Cactus "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" 15. LiliPUT "Die Matrosen" 16. Karastrophe "Your Girlfriend" 17. Lesbians on Ecstasy "Sedition" 18. Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler "Sheets" 19. Cosey Fanni Tutti "Licking The Juice"

CD3:

1 Hotel Motel "Sucker Man" 2. Gudrun Gut "Girl Boogie" 3. The Creatures "Godzilla (Siouxsie & Budgie's Girl Monster Mix)" 4. Soffy O "Maybe A Dog" 5. Ella Bandita "New Year's Eve" 6. Las Perras Del Infierno "Somos Las Perras" 7. Juliette & The Licks "You're Speaking My Language" 8. Miss Le Bomb "Pinkitan" 9. Cat5 "Sexy" 10. Robots In Disguise "Get RID" 11. People Like Us "Fom Fom" 12. Michaela Melián "Manifesto"» 13. Susanne Brokesch "Heroes (History Mix)" 14. Scream Club vs. Leonard DeLeonard "International" 15. Crystal Cookie "Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1)" 16. Caro Snatch "Say Trees" 17. Malaria! "Your Turn To Run" 18. The Raincoats "Shouting Out Loud" 19. Vivien Goldman with Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound "Seven Days" 20. Ari Up "Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix)" 21. Miss Pain "Sell It 2 The Kids (Megaphone Version)".