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 in mp3 form here.
DO or DIY – Wet Sounds – WFMU download
In keeping with what is now becoming a tradition, the last on air edition of DO or DIY with People Like Us is being 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”. Not only that, but it has fantastico artwork and a delectable bonus 15 minutes on top of what we are playing on the last show of the season. AND no mic breaks prattling on while you’re trying to relax and realign your soul to this calming and cooling sonic breeze. People Like Us will be taking the next season off, but will resume podcasting in November, after a short break, so stay detuned.
Zip file of the whole album (including the cover art)
Also on UbuWeb
DOwnloadable DO or DIY on WFMU 2006
To commemorate our summer season of DO or DIY on WFMU we have made available a special downloadable edition 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.
Get along little doggies…
Do or DIY with People Like Us is riding off into the sunset to attend to other audio and art projects. Until she returns to the WFMU schedule, Vicki leaves us with a Best of Do or DIY Megamixathon 2006 collection, complete with some high-res CD cover art and an annotated listing of source material, for those of you who still hanker for physical media:
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
Track 7
Track 8
Track 9
CD Cover
People Like Us on TouchRadio
The Bits In Between [2008]
From the 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.
Subscribe to Touch Podcasts here: http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/podcast.xml
Update (2013) – The Bits In Between is now available for download at UbuWeb.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/plu_between.html
More downloadable DO or DIY!
The final show of the 2005 Summer Season of People Like Us’s radio show on WFMU featured a megamix of the best parts of the series – downloadable here!
The Avant Retard mixathon
Artwork here
and here
Playlist here
WFMU website
DO or DIY Premium 2004
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz – Xmas Special
DO or DIY Xmas Special on WFMU with special guest Ergo Phizmiz
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 a 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!
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2006/12/DO_or_DIY_with_People_Like_Us_Xmas_Special.mp3