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"Smiling Through My Teeth" CD This is a CD of humorous sound art/music selected by People Like Us - comes in a beautiful booklet with illustrations and an essay by Kembrew McLeod. More info here TRACKLIST 01. 3:15 Spike Jones and his City Slickers “William Tell Overture” |
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People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz "Rhapsody in Glue" album Following the success of the critically acclaimed "Perpetuum Mobile" CD of 2007, renowned UK collagists / composers People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz reunite for "Rhapsody in Glue", a cycle of bricolage-ballet-music, skewed-waltzes, and skewiff-pop. There is a story behind every album, and with "Rhapsody in Glue" we find a unique approach to constructing a record. Both long-term contributors to New York radio station WFMU, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz decided to publicly tear apart their respective practices and create an album "in the open", presenting on a seafood-filled-platter the process of collaborative collage composition - informally discussing and jabbering nonsense to one another, resulting in the "Codpaste" free podcast series. "Rhapsody in Glue" is the culmination of the ideas explored in the podcast series. "Rhapsody in Glue" continues in the bizarre ballroom vein of their previous efforts together, however, increasing the sonic palette into textural depths previously uncharted in their work. If "Carmic Waltz" is an expressionist painting by aged ballroom dance teacher who's eaten the wrong kind of mushrooms in her soufflé, then "Gary's Anatomy" is a slice of pure absurdist pop shot through with slabs of exotica and Ethel Merman. Recurring through the record is an apparent obsession with Prokofiev's "Troika (Sleigh Ride)", which merges and mashes with Burt Bacharach and Queen on "Snow Day"' and lapses into pure fantasy on the almost entirely acoustic "Withers in the Whist", jarring with Ergo's strange, Victoriana obsessed lyrics. Then on "Dancing in the Carmen" we discover what happens if Nana Mouskouri is thrown into a pot with Peggy Lee and let simmer for 10 minutes, whilst "In The Waking" shimmers along on multitracked guitars, meandering melodies, and music boxes. |
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Like Us People Like Us "On The Rooftops of London" 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, hence at a lower price. Thanks to Felix Carey, Philip Tagney, Mark Russell, Robert Sandall and Ergo Phizmiz. |
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People
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We have a few copies of "Honeysuckle Boulevard" 10 inch record left - which we originally gave away for free in exchange for downloadable vouchers. If you would like to hear more from this period for free then go to our download page and point your cursor towards BOOTS! We're making this available for what we think is a good price. We don't have enough budget left to give any of these spares away for free though, so bad luck if you missed out on the offer. A. "Harpo Honeysuckle Suite" b:
Merry Go Mambo Suite" This collaboration proved to be a very good warm up for what then went on to become the CD entitled "Perpetuum Mobile". |
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Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz "Perpetuum Mobile" CD "Perpetuum
Mobile" is the result of a uniquely schizophrenic "open source"
compositional process: the UK's finest collage composers Ergo Phizmiz
and People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) uploaded files to a shared server,
downloaded and processed each other's work, and flung the resulting
fragments back at each other. The result is an interpenetrating audio-collage
so intricate that neither party can recall who did what to whom. So
far, so avant-garde; but what makes this record different is that Ergo
and Vicki then wrote and sang their own vocals on top of their Frankenstein
creation. Here you will find slyly absurdist lyrics replete with monkeys,
carousels, trousers, apple trees, tinkling bells, dogs, sausages, whiskey,
and cannibalism. No matter how fraught with trauma, these ballads and
ditties are sung with a straight face and mixed front and center, and
the results feel like 1930s British music hall standards from an alternate
universe: half Ivor Cutler, half George Formby. The astonishing thing
is that for all this jiggery-pokery, "Perpetuum Mobile" makes
for an exhilarating, remarkably fresh pop album. It works. On
"Ghosts Before Breakfast" Ergo and Vicki proudly declare that
they've got "quite a selection of pastry", and if the profusion
of cuckoo clocks, gunshots, horn farts, string vamps, and digital malfeasance
which go hurtling through this opening track is any indication, that's
no idle boast. For sheer cornucopia of sonic raw materials, this track's
avalanche of information sets the tone for the overflowing, manic record
that follows. There's far too much to fully parse, but among the highlights:
"Beyond Perpetuum" pushes off from the Comedian Harmonists'
take on the 19th century compositional craze for "moto perpetuo"
runs of continuous notes at a rapid tempo, and folds found piano, voice
and strings into an interlocking array of M.C. Escher harmonic stairways.
"Air Hostess" is detourned lounge pop that stitches together
Nelson Riddle's "Ya Ya" theme to "Lolita", "Walk
Right In", light operettas, organ, bachelor pad cha cha and mambo,
and nervously twitching shards of Louis Armstrong. "Pierrot's Persecution
Mania" bravely explores the possibilities of a Montparnasse-via-Dixieland
hybrid of can-can and bluegrass, with ridiculous canned strings colliding
with jew's harp boings, while "Soggy Style" rides banjo twangs,
a digital bossa nova breakdown, and the "whooo-ooes" nicked
from Terry Stafford's "Suspicion". Living up to the perpetual
motion of its title and cock-a-hoop cover art, this is a frantically
energetic music whose layered repetitions become cumulatively more disorienting
and preposterous as they loop back. "Perpetuum Mobile" goes
beyond the stealth-oldies nostalgia of the mashup scene and the "culture-jamming" rhetoric of plunderphonics, and shows Mr. Ergo and Ms. Vicki to be a
potent, if Surrealist, songwriting team, and together they braid oddly
affecting vocals and their trademark stolen audio into twenty-first
century pop. Like the perpetual motion machines for which it is named,
this collaboration will run and run and run and run and run and run
and run . . . |
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Together Now CD People Like Us proudly present 27 minutes of new songs following visits to several music libraries, and appropriating favourites from the western world into a musical pantomime Contains:
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Without End DVD Sonic Arts Network proudly presents a collection of short films by leading British A/V artist People Like Us, a true champion of a particularly English sense of humour. The DVD shows a journey though a multi-layered 20th Century, represented by bright eyed and enthusiastic images of the modern world, concluding with the new Sonic Arts Network commission 'Story Without End'. Contains: |
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People Like Us & Wobbly 01. The Way In |
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People
Like Us Yes,
you can find a lot of this for free online, and we wholeheartedely encourage
to go get it! But if you would like us to do the work for you, then
here is around 24 hours of PLU, in mp3 form, on a data DVD. FEATURES
MP3s OF: |
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People
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Recyclopaedia
Britannica - Selected Works 1992-2002
Released April 2002 Mess Media (thru Soleilmoon) MESS1 SONGS
OF LOVE AND HATE The work of People Like Us rests gingerly between two
dangerous positions: on the one hand, the risk of fashioning merely
stylish pastiche out of borrowed finery for the sake of self-conscious
kitschiness; on the other hand, the risk of making simplistic, heavy
handedly "topical" audio-jokes at the expense of one's raw material
to a smug effect. If the lounge creeps uncritically snack on their sonic
ingredients and coast on being "groovy", the cads of pseudo-critique
take cheap shots at straw men and call it subversion. Happily, Vicki
Bennett has yet to fall down either precipice, but yodels down contentedly
from her own Alpine audio-cottage. There, with loving care, she snips
and tucks at the lycra jumpsuit until the fit is snug, places every
plastic shrub on the Happy Valley Ranch just so, and throws another
dance record on the bonfire. Undercutting her own utopian mirages with
formal breakdowns and sneaky semantic pranks, Vicki Bennett is One Funny
Lady, with a deadly sense of comic timing that puts her in my personal
pantheon of edit intensive music makers: -Steinski and Mass Media, Hank
Shocklee, Tod Dockstader, Teo Macero, the Hanatarash, John Oswald, Runzelstirn
& Gurgelstock. Serving her birthday cake with a turd, her gags are always
lined with a virulent creep factor. You get the feeling that the vacancy
and pointlessness of empty speech is being lampooned and mourned in
equal measure. In sticking to this balance of celebration and critique,
People Like Us genuinely hates and loves People Like You. The least
you can do is head up to the Happy Valley Ranch for a spell and have
a listen. |
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A Fistful of Knuckles Released Winter 2000 on Caciocavallo/Soleilmoon Recordings CAD10 "People Like Us is simply too good. Why it presents us again and again CD, like a circus. One must win something distance from this music, thus her one not flatly with the endless heavily meaning basic sounds and memories. Here to the world between American white diapers, Pferdchen those the world mean, Kleinkinderklukluxklansofties and other one like Country, donkeys, sakeless Schubidus and cold kriegern in a leckeren soup. People Like US is like cinema, like which old humans at MTV finds so exciting always, these many cuts, only the cuts are not cuts, but, deeply inside into this world from sound the world of the television offers precise interventions to surgical quality, without it would refer to expressly drauf that that really like that it is but supplies actually only for People Like US material, which so unconsciously passed through quasi by us that one can cannibalize it ever further and further. Carefully naturally and with a Manie CUT copy paste of the Artworkings, which one, once belonged never again loose will. " A Fistful OF Knuckles " is the terminator point of a long long search to the praised country, which ran from the east coast in long Trecks to the west coast, made a stopover with John Wayne over in People Like US to end." - translation from de-bug magazine |
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Lassie
House/Jumble Massive
Released Autumn 2000 on Caciocavallo/Soleilmoon Recordings CAD9 There is an air of both humor and impending doom within the works of People Like Us. From her first release in 1991 People Like Us has created or contributed to more than 25 CDs and records as well as several collaborative releases and numerous compilation tracks. Lassie House/Jumble Massive is a mid-price reissue of two limited edition releases from Staalplaat and Soleilmoon. The name Jumble Massive describes the music perfectly. This album contains a hodge-podge mish-mash of spoken word snippets and accidental vocalization that have been skillfully edited together to make something inconceivably peculiar and wonder. There are some tracks which are more musical, but again, collage is the preferred method of creation. People Like Us have defined a new musical territory with an atmosphere primarily composed of nitrous oxide and adrenaline. Take a deep breath, but be ready to die laughing. "Lassie House" was released in the following year by Staalplaat as a 10" picture disc, with a Bichon Frise dog printed on it in pink and blue. It featured two long hilarious spoken word pieces. |
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