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Messer Chups
Biography
Messer Chups is the lowbrow musical concoction of Russian-born artist and musician Oleg Gitarkin, employing audio collage methods to create thick layers of sampling from trash horror films, cartoons, and other diverse sources. Surf rock drums, big-band influence and cinema clips show the presence of Gitarkin's western influences, but the band also incorporates antique synthesizers and animations samples identifiable with his Soviet childhood. Adhering stylistically to a number of genres including rockabilly, horror punk, lounge, and surf rock Messer Chups was founded in 1998 after the breakup of German-Russian psychobilly ensemble Messer für Frau Müller.



When Messer für Frau Müller splintered, guitarist, bassist and keyboardist Oleg Gitarkin stood firm, recruiting Oleg Kostow of Phantom for a new-and-improved Messer für Frau Müller. But like most long-distance relationships (Gitarkin lived in Hamburg, Kostrow in Moscow) the pair soon split. Kostrow released his solo work under his own name, but Gitarkin, ever faithful, created the spin-off project Messer Chups (Messer meaning knife, Chups like Chupa Chups, the lollipop).



WithGitarkin in the driver's seat, Messer Chups was a frenzied musical tornado drawing in more and more dialogue and score snippets, surf rock riffs, historical recordings and antique synthesizers, produced only in the Soviet Union.
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