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Since
Autumn 2003 People Like Us have been doing a weekly
show on WFMU, called DO or DIY. The aim of the show
is to mix highbrow with lowbrow to challenge whether
there is much difference. Also, many artists played
on DO or DIY get very little radio play (a google
search for many of these bands brings the show's airplay
at the top of the results). Each weekly show has been
known to have excess of 50,000 listens
per year (based on average Realplayer stats archives
collected over the space of one year).
Here
are the archived playlists and realaudio streams of
at least 150 shows from 2003 to the present day.
www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL
Subscribe
to the Podcast of DO or DIY by clicking here - it will prompt your iTunes program to open, where you will receive the podcasts.
DO
or DIY biog
DO
or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast
weekly by Vicki Bennett (project name People Like
Us) on WFMU.
This
show has been in existence since 2003, and has broadcast
more than 150 shows.
The
philosophy behind the show is simple. That within
the realms of avant-garde and experimental sound art
the goalposts defining "accessible" and
"inaccessible" are constantly moving. As
the radar rises and dips, fragments and shards of
underground creations unearth, and popular culture
and artist resonate, shifting shapes accordingly with
one another in reflections of changing spotlights.
The avant-garde and popular culture rely on each other's
energy. People Like Us collage both "hard to
listen" works and popular listening matter, showing
that in fact, beyond the restrictions of genre, genre
IS the restriction and it is possible to like many
kinds of art and music. The key is finding the door
- DO or DIY leads the way into new and unusual realms
of listening and hope to show the way in.
Each
show consists of collages made of sound works from
the 20th and 21st century, often layered and looped
many times over, resulting in an album type effect
on each show.
Suggested
Listening:
"The
Avant-Retard Mixathon" - A selection of the
best of one season of DO or DIY from 2005.
ABOUT
WFMU
WFMU
are very influential to NYC area record buyers, particularly
ones who search for music out of the ordinary. The
station was listed as #1 station in the USA by Rolling
Stone critics for 4 consecutive years, was voted #1
station at 1999's Gavin Convention, subject of a New
York Times magazine feature, and has gotten accolades
from the WIRE, John Peel, Matt Groening & other luminaries.
The format covers anything from home cassettes, noise,
old country, rockabilly, electroacoustic, experimental,
electronic, metal, out-jazz, krautrock, schlock, hip-hop,
collage, garage, and pop from all decades. They've
hosted Senegalese rappers, Japanese black metal bands,
Tuvan psychedelic rock groups, Brit folk legends,
indie rock darlings, and played about 2000 other genres
they can't even begin to list.
"WFMU is known as an oasis in the airwave desert.
While most stations practice one-dimensional 'narrow-casting',
WFMU embraces everything in the wonderful world of
sound." - SPIN
"WFMU is the best freeform radio station in America."
- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"Fantastic website, great archives. It is truly eclectic
programming, unlike other stations, which claim to
be eclectic." MATT GROENING, SIMPSONS CREATOR
"There's nothing better late at night in this town
than climbing into the car and turning on and tuning
into WFMU cracklin' across the river with whatever
weird shit they're playin' tonight." - LEE RANALDO,
SONIC YOUTH
"Romping through the history of recorded sound, WFMU's
disc jockeys often come up with unbelievable artifacts,
revelatory juxtapositions and songs you thought you'd
never hear again." - NEW YORK TIMES
This is one full-on Limey who believes believes believes
that when it comes to transformation through sound,
we should support WFMU for their percipient ur-cultural
bravado. It's the 21st century and WFMU is here to
celebrate our coming of age! - JULIAN COPE, MUSICIAN/AUTHOR/HISTORIAN
WFMU radio art at alt.gallery, Newcastle
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29 September 2008
FINAL DO or DIY of the WFMU Season
DOwnloadable DO or DIY on WFMU Part 2
Just like last week, but this is the LAST DO or DIY of the season and People Like Us will be taking the next season off. So here is VOLUME 2 at the WFMU Blog - grab yourself the Best of DO or DIY for the past year's broadcasts.
22 September 2008
DOwnloadable DO or DIY on WFMU
It's that time of the year again, when DO or DIY zip up their bags and... send it right over to you! Indeed, for the two final weeks of the WFMU Summer Season, DO or DIY with People Like Us are giving you an album sized chunk of all things avant retard - a lovely noisy collage, complete with artwork. So listen in live to DO or DIY at 7pm NY Time (that's midnight UK time) Monday evenings, then go over to the WFMU Blog and grab yourself VOLUME 1 the Best of DO or DIY for the past year's broadcasts.
11 August 2008
People Like Us, WFMU & TouchRadio in today's Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/11/radio.digitaltvradio
TouchRadio
Touch, an independent arts organisation that turned 25 last year, is home to artists such as Christian Fennesz, Biosphere and Chris Watson. Touch Radio features challenging and entertaining material, including field recordings, interviews and live performances. There are audio diaries from Chris Watson, where he illuminates his work as a wildlife sound recordist in the Galapagos Islands, taking in the Alcedo volcano. If you are truly tired of words by this stage, you will find an antidote in Touch 10: The Bits In Between by Vicki Bennett, whose own show on WFMU, a glorious mashup (peoplelikeus.org), will leave you in a spin. touchradio.org.uk
Pascal Wyse
WFMU-FM 91.1 FM
Home to an acclaimed country and western show hosted by singer Laura Cantrell, WFMU describes its output thus: "Rock'n'roll, 78rpm records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B." And, if that's not enough, there's "Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English".
wfmu.org
Alexis Petridis
13 August 2008
People Like Us fill in for Ken on WFMU - 3 hours of DO or DIY
Yes indeed, while Ken is on vacation, People Like Us will be filling in for him for one week only, from 9am-noon (NY time), which rather conveniently is 2pm-5pm, UK time. The program will be archived and podcast as usual after the show at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL and there will also be a live playlist and comments throughout the show. In the meantime, check Ken's archives out - it's a great show.
5 August 2008
PLU's Mixing It session now available for free here
People Like Us - On The Rooftops Of London
(mailorder only) - 2007
Was a session for the final edition of BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It", broadcast on 9 February 2007. This is a one track CD single - just under 20 minutes long. Thanks to Felix Carey, Philip Tagney, Mark Russell, Robert Sandall and Ergo Phizmiz.
On The Rooftops Of London
Mixing It - website
Where' The Skill In That - webpage
Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog
16 June - 6 October 2008
People Like Us return to the WFMU airwaves
People Like Us will return to terrestrial radio and a one hour weekly show for the Summer Season on WFMU. The show starts on Monday 16th June and will run weekly until 6 October. Tune in live every week and follow the accuplaylist at 7pm Mondays NY time, that is midnight Mondays UK time. Alternatively you can tune in afterwards, and to archive shows, at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL. You can also subscribe to the podcast here (if this link doesn't open your iTunes automatically, copy and paste the link into iTunes/Advanced/Subscribe to a podcast)
3 June 2008
Exclusive Digital Single From People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
We are pleased to announce two brand new downloadable tracks from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, available to the web exclusively from WFMU's Free Music Archive and Beware of the Blog. The Music to Run Fast By digital 7'' is based around the idea of "The Chase", where Vicki and Ergo sourced from and collaged as many fast moving sounds as they could possibly think of! This music was originally conceived for a live soundtrack to Christian Marclay's film "Screen Play", performed by WFMU's delightful duo in London last year (link). It was then developed into "The Chase" episode of their "Codpaste" podcast on WFMU. Check out more very fast music from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz in the Codpaste archive at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25405
Download the mp3s at the WFMU Blog
If you own a horse then do take this on your ipod next time you go out for a trot.
20 May 2008
Listen to the archive of WFMU's PLU Special on The Phuj Phactory
If you missed it at the time, listen to the wonderful job that Ergo Phizmiz did interviewing Vicki here (will download a Realplayer link).
3 December 2007-17 March 2008
We are pleased to announce Codpaste - a new weekly podcast series brought to you by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, who will be teaming up and trying to compose collage music for you... with emphasis on the word "trying." It's reasonably rare that music is broadcast to you when it's not all finished, polished and dusted, but we're going to spew out the guts and gore to you, dear listener, so do bring a spoon.
From Monday 3rd December 2007, WFMU will be hosting the podcasts of:
(i) audio sources, the tracks used as the basis for the collage in the episode
(ii) sketches, mixes, and collages combining track elements with added instrumentation, electronics, vocals, etc.
(iii) fragments, layers, and multitracks of the collage compositions
These elements will be tied together by snippets of light-hearted, tangential conversations and introductions and occasional mental overload and verbal meltdown.
Subscribe to this free weekly podcast by visiting WFMU's Podcast page. Or you can go straight to iTunes, go to the menu bar, then Advanced, then Subscribe to Podcast and paste this in http://wfmu.org/podcast/CT.xml and iTunes will do the rest for you. The podcast proper starts on Monday 3rd December, but in the meantime you'll get a little welcome message.
We're having great fun recording this and we think it will reflect in the program. Do try it out.
Episode 1 - 3rd December 2007 - Cartoon Music - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25395
Episode 2 - 10th December 2007 - The Chase - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25405
Episode 3 - 17th December 2007 - Hooked On Classics - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25406
Episode 4 - 24th December 2007 - ThEdit - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25429
Episode 5 - 31st December 2007 - Fwms Bo Wo - http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25530
Episode 6 - 7th January 2008 - Snow Day - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25533
Episode 7 - 14th January 2008 - Banjos, Pots, Pans and Squeezeboxes - http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25819
Episode 8 - 21st January 2008 - Collage - http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25942
Episode 9 - 28th January 2008 - I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25966
Episode 10 - 4th February 2008 - Nana Mouskouri - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25655
Episode 11 - 11th February 2008 - Song Song - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25970
Episode 12 - 18th February 2008 - Comedy - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26276
Episode 14 - 17th March 2008 - Finale - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/26515 - and at the WFMU blog
What's next? 18th March-30th April - making an ALBUM inspired by all of this.
Further program information can be found here.
23 December 2007
Listen to DO or DIY in Australian national radio!
Starting 23rd December for several weeks of their summer season on ABC Radio National, the radio program The Night Air will be rebroadcasting People Like Us's show, DO or DIY on WFMU - this means you can tune in on your transistor radio or online, or listen afterwards to the archive. Go along to their website now and check it out - the program details for the first episode are here.
People Like Us guested on The Night Air back in 2001, alongside friends Irene Moon and The Evolution Control Committee - you can hear that here.
6 November 2007
DO or DIY resumes this week After a month off, we have now resumed weekly podcasting of DO or DIY on WFMU - the next podcast will hit your iTunes next time you open it up, if you are already subscribed. You can subscribe for free by opening up iTunes, going to the menu at the top of your screen, clicking on Advanced, then Subscribe to Podcast, then copy this from below and paste it in. http://wfmu.org/podcast/PL.xml
Then it will arrive all by itself. Amazing.
4 October 2007
Downloadable DO or DIY
In keeping with what is now becoming a tradition, the last on air edition of DO or DIY with People Like Us has been delivered alongside an album
sized chunk of a megamix with the bitesize title of "Wet Sounds - The Best Of All Things Particularly Avant Retard 2007".
Download the album and artwork at the WFMU Blog
3rd December 2007
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
Special podcast series: Codpaste
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz will be making an album... but it will be different to usual processes - we are going to let you in on the whole thing and document the making as a series of podcasts, starting in December. More info pages coming nearer the time!
8
June 2007
"On The Rooftops Of London" for sale
Due
to popular demand we've made a CD Single available
of the radio session we did for Mixing It on BBC
Radio 3, since otherwise it would never be heard
again since Mixing It is no more on the station.
You can get
it here.
DO
or DIY RETURNS!!!!!
7
June - 4 October 2007
People Like Us return to the WFMU Summer Season
People
Like Us will return to terrestrial radio and their
one hour weekly show for the Summer Season on WFMU.
The show starts on Thursday 7th June and will run
weekly until 4 October, when People Like Us will
revert back to making podcast only shows for the
Winter Season. Tune in live every week and follow
the accuplaylist at 6pm Thursdays NY time, that
is 11pm Thursdays UK time. Alternatively you can
tune in afterwards, and to archive shows, at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL.
You can also subscribe as ever to the ongoing podcast
(copy and paste this link into iTunes/Advanced)
Here's
the New WFMU Schedule
1
June 2007
People Like Us megamix on Oceanclub Radio, Radio
Eins
People
Like Us have made a megamix for the above show to
be broadcast on 1st June. Here is the Oceanclub
link http://www.oceanclub.de/
The direct link to the audio archive will be
http://www.radioeins.de/_/programm/audios_jsp/activeid=174/key=beitrag_147.html
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March 2007
New weekly free People Like Us podcast begins
As
a stopgap between Summer Season broadcasts and 3
hour occasional webcasts on WFMU we have decided
to start a weekly podcast through wfmu.org.
At
the moment if you are subscribed to the PLU podcast
at the fmu site you will be receiving archived shows
from the last season of DO or DIY and the occasional
three hour show. But shortly after the end of the
WFMU marathon you will be able to receive around
15 to 20 mins of DO or DIY programming every Wednesday
or every time you open up your iTunes after each
Wednesday. You don't have to do a thing once you
have subscribed.
Subscribe
to the DO or DIY with People Like Us podcast at
the link below. There is also simple technical information
for first time podcast subscribers.
http://wfmu.org/podcast
There
is a direct link here:
http://wfmu.org/podcast/PL.xml
- copy and paste that link into iTunes/Advanced/Subscribe
to Podcast...
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February 2007
DO or DIY 3 Hour Special on WFMU
The
next DO or DIY will be on WFMU from 6-9am NY time
- that is 11am-2pm UK time, on 15th February.
It
is archived
here
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February 2007
People
Like Us Session on BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It"
10.15pm (UK time)
People
Like Us are pleased to announce the forthcoming broadcast
of a 20 minute long session of brand new material, plus
a special "show remix" of for Radio 3's best
experimental music show "Mixing It". Over
the last 16 years, Mixing It have been a big supporter
of PLU, and we are very sad (and somewhat outraged)
that it is being axed by the BBC next month for no good
reason that we could possibly imagine. Our session will
be aired on the last programme of the show.
Mixing
It Website
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December 2006
Download a seasonal radio show
Here
is another chance to not only hear but download the
Xmas edition of DO or DIY with People Like Us from 2003,
with Special Guest and now WFMU DJ, Ergo Phizmiz!
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/12/people_like_us_.html
14
December 2006
3 Hour Special of DO or DIY on WFMU
People Like Us will be broadcasting a web-only edition
of DO or DIY on WFMU on 14th December from 6-9am EST,
which is 11am-2pm UK time. The show will be archived
afterwards at wfmu.org/playlists/PL. The show will feature
a 45 minute special on RIAA (Recording
Industries Are Archaic)
Find
the show archived here
2
October 2006
DOwnloadable
DO or DIY
on WFMU - last program of the present season special
mp3 download
To
commemorate our summer season of DO or DIY on WFMU we
have made available a special downloadable "album" of the best of DO or DIY on WFMU. We will be skipping
the next (Winter) season in order to pursue other projects
so grab it while you can (not that it's going anywhere)
in mp3 form here at WFMU's
BEWARE THE BLOG.
Also,
while we take the season off you can access the show's
archives (which number over 60 hours now) here at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL
RADIO
SESSIONS FOR DOWNLOAD
DO
or DIY on WFMU
(Summer Schedule) - 2006
The
final show of the 2006 summer season of People Like
Us's radio show on WFMU, a megamix of the best parts
of the series
Playlist
here
WFMU website
Download
here at WFMU's BEWARE THE BLOG.
From
digital gutter, here lie all the soundbytes edited out
of mic breaks for People Like Us's radio show DO or
DIY on WFMU
from June to September 2005. The show is all about cutting
together avant with pop, and the only aspect of this
one hour a week that has ever felt slightly out of place
has been the necessary mic breaks. So now we do them
justice by taking the entire unedited 3 hours, and in
Language
Removal Service style we take out all the meaning
and are left with 34 minutes of delicious background
noise, voice glitches and hesitations.
The
file is here http://bulletin.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio/Radio10/Radio10.m3u
If you go into iTunes you'll work out through the info
page how to download it as an mp3 too.
Subscribe
to Touch Podcasts here:
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/podcast.xml
- or just open iTunes, go to "Podcasts" then
"Advanced" on your menu settings. Then you
can "Subscribe to podcast" by pasting in the
above address.
DO or DIY on WFMU
(Summer Schedule) - 2005
The
final show of the 2005 summer season of People Like
Us's radio show on WFMU, a megamix of the best parts
of the series
Playlist here
WFMU website
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with People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
(WFMU) 2003
People
Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz are making the MP3 of their
2003 Christmas radio special available for download:
download 80 meg MP3 From the underwater North Sea lair
of People Like Us, Vicki declares: Tis the season not
only of Good Will, but also of Irritainment Music -
but we don't agree that all Xmas music is bad! So just
to illustrate the point, here is another chance to not
only hear but download the Xmas edition of DO or DIY
with People Like Us from 2003, with Special Guest and
now WFMU DJ, Ergo Phizmiz! Pour yourself a nice drinky
and careful you don't crack your nuts. Wishing you a
pleasant Xmess!
Mp3
here
WFMU
website
"In
my country, we are having it the wanderful musics, the
military marches. Is good for the war, but sometime
is not so good for the Christmas, extremely when we
have too many of the pahtchnyiks at the Christmas Party.
(Pahtchnyik is special drinking for to see who will
drinking the most, but still to stand up straight. But
everybody always end up getting the most drunked. Hah
hah hah.) Some times the drunks are getting kind of
pushy and yelly, and is making everybody to be piss
off, so then somebody starting the fight, and everybody
having to bonk them at the head, the drunks, for that
they will sleeping it off. So that is not so good for
having nice party of the Holiday Time. Also too, is
not so good for the Christmas, when everybody supposed
to make peace on you, and the good will at everybody.
So now we are having this nice musics, of the Ergo Phizmiz
and Vicki and Bennett, and everybody still getting pahtchnyik,
with nose like Rudolph the Pahtchnyik Reindeer, but
hey...everybody now not fighting so much, for these
happy musics are Happy People of Christmas now in my
country. So thanking you now, from us, to Merry Christmas
on Everybody. Ho Ho!"
DO
or DIY on WFMU
(Winter Schedule) - 2003/4
The
DJ Premium for People Like Us's radio show on WFMU for
the 2004 WFMU Marathon. Not for sale
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People
Like Us and Kenny G - Nothing Special
(CD on Mess Media) - 2003
01.
I'm From
02.
Wake Up
03.
Nothing
04.
So Sorry
05.
Close To Me
06.
You'll Be A
07.
More Sorry
08.
Counting Time
09.
Give Up It's Mine
10.
Greatest Nobody
11.
It Wouldn't It Be Nice In Yr Face
12.
Too Far
13.
I've Got You
And
here's the full 3 hour WFMU show that this album was
edited from - Nothing
Special with Kenny G
Kenny G website
Mess Media through Soleilmoon website
BBC
Radio 1 Session
(radio - John Peel) - 2003
01.
talk
02.
talk
03.
Abridged Too Far
04.
talk
05.
talk
06.
Cattle Call
07.
talk
08.
talk
09.
The Doody Waltz
10.
talk
11.
talk
12.
talk
13.
talk
14.
Do or D.I.Y
15.
talk
John
Peel website
People
Like Us and Wobbly - There Goes Nothing
(CDr only release) - 2002
01.
The Way In
02.
Naked Little Girl
03.
Sheep Laid Out To Dry
04.
Okay
05.
Goodbye
06.
Woman
07.
The Working Title For Our Opera
08.
SwingLargo
09.
A New Baby
10.
Bitter Dregs
11.
Pain
People
Like Us and Wobbly Live on KZSU, Pal Altos, California
Wobbly
website
People
Like Us, Wobbly and Don Joyce - Baby Makes Three 2 on
Over The Edge, KPFA
(unreleased) - 2002
01.
Baby Makes Three 2
02.
Baby Makes Three 2
03.
Baby Makes Three 2
04.
Baby Makes Three 2
05.
Baby Makes Three 2
06.
Baby Makes Three 2
07.
Baby Makes Three 2
08.
Baby Makes Three 2
09.
Baby Makes Three 2
10.
Baby Makes Three 2
11.
Baby Makes Three 2
12.
Baby Makes Three 2
13.
Baby Makes Three 2
An
edit from a 3 hour show from 10 October 2002 on KPFA
in Berkeley, California. Thanks to Negativland.
People
Like Us, Irene Moon and The Evolution Control Committee
- ABC Radio National, Sydney, Australia
(unreleased) - 2001
01.
People Like Us, Irene Moon and The ECC
Thanks
to Brent Clough
People
Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly
- Campfire Special on KZSU
(unreleased) - 2000
01.
Track 1
02.
Track 2
03.
Track 3
04.
Track 4
05.
Track 5
06.
Track 6
07.
Track 7
08.
Track 8
09.
Track 9
10.
Track 10
Thanks
to Mike Howes at KZSU
People
Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People, Wobbly and Don Joyce
- 2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA
(unreleased) - 2000
01.
Woman As Sexual Criminal
02.
Bright Giant Love Balls
03.
Steel Pole
04.
Nice Music
05.
Finale
06.
Credits
An
edit from a 3 hour show. Thanks to Negativland
Guide
To Broadcasting
(3"CD on Staalplaat) - 1994
01.
Guide To Broadcasting
02.
TV Dinner
Originally
sessions made for VPRO in Holland
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