Here’s a mashup People Like Us made for Tom Scharpling – sometimes known as writer of the TV series Monk, and sometimes DJ on The Best Show on WFMU.
People Like Us – Iron Files
Story Without End – short film
Made using footage from the Prelinger Archives and A/V Geeks, this film explores how technology enables us to communicate faster. Despite advances in communication technology the film shows that the story of progress will never end; and that it leads to both connection and disconnection. The narrative is from a public domain film of the same name made in 1950 about the development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor.
Download at UbuWeb
DJ Food Raiding The 20th Century
We’re very pleased to be included on a mix CD by DJ Food – check it out AND download it here!
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/02/dj_foods_raidin.html
Christian Marclay’s Sounds of Christmas with People Like Us
Live at The Tate Modern, 18 December, as part of the Christian Marclay Exhibit) – 2004
The Sounds of Christmas is an annual project by Christian Marclay, pioneer of the experimental turntable movement and leading artist operating at the intersections of art and music. Reinventing this work-in-progress for London, the artist presented his collection of over 1,200 Christmas records as a publicly accessible archive in a special Thameside pavilion, alongside projections of the record covers and footage of previous performances. Combining blatant sentimentality with vanguard experimentation, Marclay suggests that the categories distinguishing ‘serious’ music from its opposite are both arbitrary and arcane. During the two-week installation, created live remixes of their own selection from Marclay’s Christmas records.
People Like Us perform Sounds of Christmas (live recording from desk)
Below are the raw tracks that People Like Us created from Christian Marclay’s record collection, to perform live at the event.
1. Rudolf’s Trumpet
2. Slay Bells
3. Do You Hear
4. Choich Bells
5. Fa La La La La La La
6. Holy Shit
7. Chestnuts
8. I’m Dreaming
9. I’m Dreaming Too
10. Santa Stuck
11. Jingle Bells 1
12. Jingle Bells 2
13. Santa Claus 1
14. Santa Claus 2
15. Silent Night
16. I’m…
17. I’m Backwards
18. My Favourite
19. Jingle Joy
20. Deck The Halls And Run To The Hills
21. Winter Wonderland
Mirrored here:
A Call For Silence curated by Nicolas Collins
Curated by Nicolas Collins – 2004
Design by Joerg Hartmannsgruber (white-card)
As in the old Roué’s quip that “a drink before and a cigarette after are the three best things in life,” sometimes the most important moments of our lives lie in an unspoken ellipse. The same is true of some of our most beautiful sounds.
On this CD 34 artists provide personal views into that sonic ellipse, suggestions for listening to that which might otherwise pass you by: count-offs, groove grit, tape hiss, breaths, rests, CD glitch, guitar hum, audience anticipation, reverb tails, room tones, minutes of silence, the calm before a storm.
Windpipe Moods
“Ne Me” features on a compilation CD compiled by Ergo Phizmiz, released on his label, Mukow.
The album also features contributions from Joerg Piringer, Ergo Phizmiz, Sebastien Lespinasse, People Like Us, Ambrosia Rasputin, Language Removal Services, Unit_Bath & Keiji Ito, Jaap Blonk, Sue Tompkins, Irene Moon & Sara O’Keefe, Zenith Pitts, Tomomi Adachi, C. Spencer-Yeh, Martha Moopette, Penn Kemp & Anne Anglin, Erik Belgum, and Langston Henry.
Ne Me
Download the whole album here:
People Like Us & Wobbly on BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It
People Like Us interviewed by Kenny G
Here’s a great interview that People Like Us did with Kenny G on WFMU – which led to Kenny and PLU working together ever since. Irene Moon was also in the studio!
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/7340
Resemblage – short film
Abridged Too Far – online-only album
1. Nothing
2. The Doody Waltz
3. I’ve Got You
4. Gesundheit!
5. Who Cares
6. Ja Ich
7. Dolly Pardon
8. Ach Du
9. Listen To The
10. Tiny Labyrinth of Distraction
11. Cattle Call
12. Abridged Too Far
13. Bier Bier Bier Downtown
14. Sedimental Journey
15. Swinglargo
16. Close To You
17. Retreat To Fade
18. Happy Wonderer
19. Downtown Once More
20. DO or DIY
21. Nobody Does
Download Printable Album Artwork:
Booklet
Booklet Middle
CD Label
Inlay
An online only release through UbuWeb 2004
UbuWeb website
DO or DIY Premium 2004
People Like Us & Felix Kubin – Molaradio
Recorded as part of Vicki and Felix’s residency at FACT in Liverpool in February 2004, spending two weeks with selected 12 year old pupils from Croxteth Comprehensive School, making a half hour radio piece with them. We’ve not been able to make it available before this point, but now we feel that people should hear it. We encourage you to play this on the radio! Thanks to FACT, Bosco, Croxteth Comprehensive School, and particular thanks to Ross, Maria, Shaun, Natalie, Adam, Michael, David, Amy, Chantelle, Laura and some of the infant voices who we are unable to identify.
Molaradio
Felix Kubin website
FACT website
Mirrored at the Free Music Archive: