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COBRA KILLER & ELLEN ALIEN: APELSIN, Oct. 28 By Arina Birstein

Issue 10 October 7 - November 4, 2004

	Wild girls: Cobra Killer

Berlin’s Cobra Killer is known in Europe for their shocking live acts featuring the two performers Gina V. D’Orio and Anika Line Trost throwing themselves into pools of red wine and letting forth a stream of lyrics into the audience’s faces, with distorted voices over hardly synchronized samples.

Both women started their musical careers at about the age of 12 and formed Cobra Killer in 1998. In 2002, they accompanied Peaches on her Australian tour and later toured with Sonic Youth on their European dates.

In Moscow the band is to be accompanied by their soul mate and collaborator Ellen Alien — a Berlin-based DJ, radio host, producer, event manager, BPitch Control music label founder/manger and an influential player on the European music scene.