Chicken Lips is a
dance music band and production team from
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...
, England, that includes Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith, both formerly of
Bizarre Inc, a band they created in the early 1990s.
Career
Meecham and Meredith began working as Chicken Lips in 1999.
[Kelman, Andy " Chicken Lips Biography, AllMusic, retrieved 2010-08-08] Their music is more left-field
House
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than the
acid house
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that dominated in their earlier Bizarre Inc. productions.
Their music has also been described as "disco-dub".
[Kleinfeld, Justin (2003)]
RPM Q&A: Chicken Lips
, '' CMJ New Music Monthly'', 3 November 2003, p. 28, retrieved 2010-08-08 As producers, they have issued in stream of twelve-inch singles released through the Kingsize label.
With the addition of
Steve Kotey
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, owner of Bear Funk Records, the Chicken Lips became a trio.
[Rauscher, William (2010)]
Chicken Lips - Show Your Shape (The Best Of Chicken Lips)
, Resident Advisor
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, 3 August 2010, retrieved 2010-08-08
Meecham has also been involved in side-projects such as The Emperor Machine.
[Kharas, Kev (2009)]
Emperor Machine: Dark Room Dynasties And Roman Stoned
, The Quietus, 25 June 2009, retrieved 2010-08-08
Discography
Albums
* ''Echoman'' (2000), Kingsize
* ''Extended Play'' (2002), Kingsize
* ''Body Music – Nite:Life 015'' (2003), NRK Nite Life
* ''
DJ-Kicks: Chicken Lips'' (2003),
!K7
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* ''
Re-Echoed, Re-Extended and Re-Hashed'' (2003), Kingsize
* ''
Clicks, Acid 'n' Disco'' (2005), Trust the DJ
* ''