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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 consists 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 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,CDMiss Libido (2000)MC,CDBride Of The Atom (2000)MC,CDVamp Babes (2000)MC,CDBlack Black Magic (2002)CDThe Best Of Messer Chups: Cocktail Draculina (2002)CDCrazy Price (2003)CDVamp Babes Upgrade Version 2004 (2004)CDCrazy Price (new version)(2005)CDHyena Safari (2005)CDHyena Safari(2nd version)(2006)CDZombie Shopping (2007)CDBest of The Best (2008) LP/CDHeretic Channel (2009) CD/LPBermuda 66 (2010) CDMesser für Frau Müller:
Merry Bormans (1991) unreleasedHappy End Dead (1992)MC,CD released in 2000Little Joys (1992)MC,CD released in 2000Senjors Crakovjac (1993)MC, LP 1994,CD 2000Icicle-Murders (1995)MCNechelovek-Vidimka (1996) MC„Hello, Superman!“ (1998)MC, CDSecond Hand Dreams (2000)MC,CDAllo, Superman! (2000)CD incl. 3 bonus tracksHyper Utesov Presents (2001)CDSecond Hand Dreams (2001)CD incl. 3 bonus tracksTreugol'nik, Chert I Tochka ( 2003)CDRemixodelica (2005)CDTriangle, Dot & Devil (2006)CDDanger Retrobolik (2006) CDWake Up The Dead (2008) CD / (2009) LPMesser Chups & Messer für Frau Müller video DVD 2006 Messer Chups video DVD 2008
