DJ Kicks

Chicken Lips | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: K7
• ASIN: B0000C0FM1
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,782 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Brainticket - Places of Light

2. Karin Krog/Herbert - Meaning of Love

3. Jimmy Spicer – The Bubble Bunch (Original Jellybean 12” mix)

4. Colourbox – Shotgun

5. Nina Hagen – African Reggae

6. Lindstrom – Limitations

7. Lola – Wax The Van (Kenny’s Club Version)

8. The Congos – Congo Man (Carl Craig Mix)

9. Chicken Lips – You’re Not Ready Yet

10. Gwen Guthrie – Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan Mix)

11. The Paul Simpson Connection – Treat Me (Dubmental Mix – A Pablovia RaBaN Mix)

12. Rhythm & Sound w/ Paul St. Hilaire – Music A Fe Rule

13. TIK N TOK – Crisis

14. Warp 9 – Light Years Away (Dub)

15. Sharon Redd – Beat The Street (Instrumental)

16. Chicken Lips – Wind Ya Neck In

17. Big Two Hundred – Suckee

18. The Raincoats – Animal Rhapsody (Dennis Bovell Mix)

19. George Duke – Brazilian Love Affair

20. Wish & La-Rita Gaskin – Nice and Soft

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2003 is the year in which tracks by London’s Chicken Lips are ubiquitous in every serious DJ’s box. Whether it’s their own tracks or their various remixes, Chicken Lips is the "in sound" of the new decade. Perfect for the newest installment of the legendary DJ- Kicks series from !K7 Records.

Many of the producers that have influenced Chicken Lips in their characteristic sound are featured on their "DJ-Kicks" mix. There´s Brainticket, Colourbox, Nina Hagen, Sharon Redd, Jellybean, and Larry Levan...their names and their music symbolising timeless dance music. This is music from the late 1970s and early 1980s, that even today sounds so individualistic and fresh. In their "DJ Kicks" mix, Chicken Lips also mix this timeless sound with various musical individualists from today. You´ll hear Karin Krog & Herbert with mixed with a Jellybean remix of Jimmy Spicer, the Carl Craig Remix of The Congos blended with a track by Chicken Lips themselves.

Chicken Lips’ contribution to the DJ-Kicks series is sure to be the talk of left-field dancefloors across the globe. Spanning genres from disco and electro to dub and rock, it’s total disregard for tired musical classifications will undoubtedly strike a chord with music heads of all types.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, February 9, 2004

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Joe Schulte (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DJ Kicks (Audio CD)

The CD is perfectly done. The track selection is great, the mixing from "Lola" to "The Congos" is probably the best mix of two records I've heard in a while. The cd starts off pretty good, gets really good at about track five and then by the last song all you can do is start over again. This cd stayed in my stereo for almost 2 weeks straight and I still love it. I have the double 150th !K7 release, DJ Kicks- Kruder and Dorfmeister and Tiga and Chicken Lips is definitely my favorite !K7 release I have heard so far. Good Tracks- Good Mixing- Good Times.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What happened to DJ Kicks?, July 16, 2005

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jazz freak "Tafadhali nataka bia [pombe] baridi" (Yukon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DJ Kicks (Audio CD)

Hard to believe this is in the same series as Rockers, K&D, Kid Loco, Cam...maybe all these DJ's (Playgroup, Chicken Lips etc.) peddling this 80's crap think this is cool but for those of us old enough to remember, the music from that decade was mostly horrifying. All you people with your new wave hairdos go get a haircut.

3 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Banal rubbish, November 17, 2003

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Skallywag - See all my reviews

This review is from: DJ Kicks (Audio CD)

Most of these songs were dug out of the archives and thats where they should have remained. This really does not work musically or as a concept for the 70's/80's sound. There are about three very good songs on this but the rest are bad and then even worse rubbish. These songs should have been torched and destroyed (back in the 70/80's) as they are just plain and simply brutal.