People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly
What’s The Use – Live – 1999
Download at UbuWeb http://ubu.com/sound/plu_whats_the_use.html
Hate People Like Us Remix Double album
(2CD – Remixes of PLU on Staalplaat, deleted) – 1999
(1CD on Soleilmoon) – 1999
A01. PLU – The First Record
A02. Negativland – What’s Music?
A03. PLU – People Like Modern Clothing
A04. Farmers Manual – Allinone.Remix
A05. PLU – Next Record
A06. Cyclobe – I Believe In Mirrorballs
A07. PLU – Far Out Listening
A08. Bruce Gilbert – Untitled
A09. PLU – Next Record
A10. Dummy Run – Esoplas & Liflewit
A11. PLU – Uh Dear
A12. Req 1 – Untitled
A13. PLU – Handjob
A14. V/Vm – You Want Some More?
A15. PLU – Ready To Fly?
A16. Sniper – Untitled
A17. PLU – Mmm Perfect
A18. Christoph Heemann – Ursula Fährt Ski
A19. PLU – What A Melody
A20. Death in June – Lycra Rally Remixes
A21. PLU – Pure Seduction
A22. Barbed – Barbed 4 People Like Us
A23. PLU – Move It Baby
A24. PLU – I Am Very Happy
A25. Mr Rotorvator – Barry Bonker
A26. PLU – Last Record
A27. Stock, Hausen & Walkman – Keep Going Wee Wee
A28. PLU – One Final Word
B01. Coil – An Apology
B02. Felix Kubin – Broken Lady Symphony part 1
B03. Felix Kubin – Broken Lady Symphony part 2
B04. Felix Kubin – Broken Lady Symphony part 3
B05. Felix Kubin – Broken Lady Symphony part 4
B06. PLU – Good Joke
B07. Xper. Xr. – Stuff Happens
B08. PLU – Tune It Up
B09. Dummy Run – People Like Us Like People Like Us
B10. PLU – Hello Reg
B11. Venoz [TKS] – The Thawes
B12. PLU – Camel
B13. Rehberg & Bauer – Nicolo
B14. PLU – Technology
B15. Katy Brown – Lewes Is A Long Way
B16. PLU – Stewed Prunes
B17. Boyd Rice – Period Piece
B18. PLU – A Little Drink
B19. Dr P Li Khan – Untitled
B20. PLU – Yodelcuckoo
B21. Sons Of Silence – Cockahoop
B22. PLU – Jesus F Christ
B23. Mika Vainio – Untitled
B24. PLU – People Like Us
B25. Coil – The Gimp / Sometimes
B26. PLU – Drive Carefully
Music Of Your Own – an early People Like Us short film
In the early days of desktop computing with video (1999-2000), People Like Us used relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn’t particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
“Music Of Your Own” originally existed as an audio-only piece on the “Thermos Explorer” album (2000), and since the audio was originally sourced from film it was later possible to recreate the stories in visual form.
Music Of Your Own (1999)
“The world is a wonderful and exciting place. And there are a thousand exciting things to do without experimenting with music of your own.”
Download the video here
Discovering Electronic Music – an early short film by People Like Us
In the early days of desktop computing with video (1999-2000), People Like Us used relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn’t particularly intentional, but reflective of the process.
Discovering Electronic Music (1999)
“A computer can take over this control work and do it more quickly and accurately than a human being.” The above sentence inspired transforming the source film (also entitled) “Discovering Electronic Music” by collaging it with the horror film “Evil Speak”. The result is a reflection of the overwhelming power of the computer in modern life.
Here are the words:
A computer can take over much of this control work and do it more quickly and accurately than a human being
This computer is connected to and controls envelope generators, filters and electronic oscillators
The composer is telling the computer what kind of sound he wants
Using computer language he is describing a melody he wants to use in a composition
This melody by Bach is one we’ve already heard
The computer can help manipulate this melody in many ways
By using a switch the composer can instruct the computer to play the melody backwards
Or upside down
He can change the pitches
He can play more loudly or softly
(on computer screen):
What are the keys to the kingdom of Satan’s magic?
I, Esteban, have signed the book of death and touched the hand of my master Satan, through the rite of the black mass.
Book of death… sign… book of death… black mass… Esteban… sign… book of death… black mass… Esteban… Esteban… Esteban… Esteban…
Backwards, backwards
(on computer screen):
Satan: here my plea and through the rite of the black mass help me stand erect before my enemy and defy his curse.
(on computer screen):
By the dreadful day of judgement,
By the face of the uholy majesty and
By the beasts before the throne…
By the fire which is about the throne
I conjure and command thee oh prince
of darkness in the name of he who spake
and it was done.
Satan, Lucifer appear forthwith and
show yourself to me.
Blood
Consecrated host
Data incomplete
(on computer screen)
Blood
Consecrated host
Data incomplete
(on computer screen)
ESTEBAN
(on computer screen)
Blood
Consecrated host
Data incomplete
(on computer screen)
Human
Blood
Data incomplete
(on computer screen)
Human Blood
I will return
(on computer screen)
Human Blood
Data incomplete
People Like Us interview in The Wire 1999
People Like Us interview in The Wire
The Wire magazine interview 1999
Over The Edge Archive – The Happy Fingers Method
Over The Edge – The Happy Fingers Method
December 1998
People Like Us (here from England), Wobbly, and Peter Conheim join me for a live mix generally spinning around the cut up soundtrack of “The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T.” After interviewing PLU and her manager about her music and her new Hollywood movie, “The Tantrum,” we all begin pushing our collective buttons with all our happy fingers for 3 hours of solid irritainment. Beyond the distinctive rantings of Hans Conried and his gaggle of little piano prisoners throughout, there’s no point in even trying to identify it all – just a lot of found stuff from various mediums put together for the fun of weaving pseudo musical fabric out of bits and pieces of sound. A concentrated musical collage for modern radio.
Run time 2h:53m:43s
Run time 2h:53m:43s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Over The Edge Archive – The Sound Of Austria II
Over The Edge – The Sound of Austria II
October 1998
More recordings from “The Sound Of Music” made on and off stage, (counting the money, etc.) and big pieces of the final show in Linz. The attempted Julie Andrews interview, “Oh how happy we will be when we learn our harmony,” receptacle input, participant discussions about how this performance should be done… and how it was done! More Cha Cha, more food, more beer, NPR, the RIAA, underground Austrian elf land from a miniature train, the best parts of show three, and new mixing with material used and left out. Thanks to Staalplaat and Time’s Up for creating this get together – People Like Us, Music Toerist, Barbed, Negativland.
Run time 3h:5m:47s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Over The Edge Archive – The Sound of Austria I
Over The Edge – The Sound of Austria I
September 1998
The first OTE broadcast of the live, 7 person jams at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria in which Negativland, Barbed, People Like Us, and Music Toerist participated. Our theme and title was “The Sound Of Music” and we all played it together, and all kinds of other sound related material, for three nights. The first of these two OTE broadcasts is five hours and covers the first two shows (The first show, subtitled “the Sound Connection” was done as a “radio show” from stage for a live broadcast on Austrian State radio FM4, Radio Kunst who also provided Receptacle Phone Access!, and the internet webcast. Contains a lengthy live review of “The End Of Music” by Crosley Bendix, plus some new mixes of stuff both in and left out of the Austrian mixes. This 5 hour show includes much music from the first two shows, along with a lot of tapes made off stage about our trip and being in Austria, and some live mixing of all this material for this radio show.
Run time 4h:53m:58s
Run time 4h:53m:58s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Over The Edge Archive – Fake Bacon Breakfast Loop III
Over The Edge Archive – Fake Bacon Breakfast Loop III
June 1998
This final in a series, like the other two, is being sent live to London, England via our semi- phone fidelity teletour box to a temporary art thing radio station, Resonance FM. It’s a loopy breakfast thing because it airs from 8 to 11 am in England. Lots of good piggy mixing between Negativland’s “Smelly Water” (a studio remix/collaboration of/with Chumbawamba’s “Drip, Drip, Drip”), Bob and Ray’s “House of Toast,” a report by Raymond Bien, President of General Injectables, a Weatherman club soda break, there’s hog fat all over the highway, a telephone tape exchange with People Like Us, Dave Emory expounds on a crucial assassination link in the SRL show he witnessed this evening, the Stupid Song, Orson Welles and sincerity, “traffic, weather, changing the refrigerator light bulb, “So tired” loops, and loops that go on forever…
Run time 3h:5m:7s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Over The Edge Archive – Fake Bacon Breakfast Loop I
Over The Edge – Fake Bacon Breakfast Loop I
June 1998
The Weatherman, Wobbly, and Dave Emory join Bud Goode for a highly technical and receptacle content infused show. Some discussion on the Teletour concept, as this show was apparently simulcast via phone line to UK radio station Resonance FM.
The Weatherman’s tired. People Like Us phones in. The recurring ‘F-You’ guy keeps calling. Includes riveting episode of What Are We Supposed To Think Now with Tilt Reptilian & Dave Emory. Random show note: The original donor of Don’s ’78 Nova calls in at around the 35 minute mark.
Run time 3h:4m:56s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Over The Edge Archive – OTE in Concert
Over The Edge – OTE in Concert
8 (and 9) April 1998
https://vimeo.com/20861241 (thanks to Puzzling Evidence)
This show occurred the night before a live performance in San Francisco in which the same people presented “OTE In Concert.” Actually a rehearsal of sorts, this show is divided into three sets – Wobbly and Wetgate play first, then PLU and Don, then all mix together for the remainder of the show. People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) comes all the way from England with a MiniDisc full of samples, Wobbly wiggles the keyboards, and Wetgate runs film loops through multiple film projectors for, in this case, audio only movies. Tellytubbies, Clowns and Ballerinas, McDonalds for girls, torture, and “fuck Lycra” are among our subjects.
Run time 3h:0m:19s
Run time 3h:0m:19s
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote
Superstars of sample People Like Us, Wobbly, and C. Elliot Friday of Negativland join forces with projectionists Wetgate to layer lightly at the Cell Space one fine spring night to discern “what’s music?”…
Over The Edge Archive: Advertising Secrets
Over The Edge – Advertising Secrets
March 1998
Beginning with Dr. Norway’s hosting of a Howland Island tourism travelog being tested at focus groups inside One World Advertising, this show cuts up a lot of “DisPepsi syndrome” and Happy Heroes in a lot of revisited roles. A little Roger Waters, “Great Moments” from channel 5, Kaiser Steel makes a comedy record, Lot’s of inventive receptacle including transAtlantic calls from People Like Us in England, (by now, a habit she’s willing to pay for) and more Howland travelog throughout. The price is right. Only infinity left!
In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote