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
Moptop Mashups
Here’s something from a Premium CD for Ken Freedman’s WFMU show, 2005 – all in the concept of Beatles mashups… we made the cover for the CD too!
Iron Files – made for The Best Show On WFMU
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
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.
People Like Us & Wobbly on BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It
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 & 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
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Live on Clear Spot, Resonance FM
Nothing Special by People Like Us & Kenny G
Here’s an album by WFMU’s two terrible DJs, People Like Us, & Kenny G.
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
Interview with People Like Us by Kenny G on WFMU, one week before this was recorded.