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Popular culture's junkyard -- full of cast-away late-night TV commercials, '60s game show kitsch, and the stiff docudramas of after-school special high moralism -- is the sonic junkyard for the mongrel plunderphonics of People Like Us. The sole work of British samplist Vicki Bennett, People Like Us giddily recounts pop culture's follies as a never-ending stream of conscious joke told through a Dadaist reshuffling of cut-up source material. Bennett's fiendishly funny proto-electronica collages are diced with gasping oohs and aahs, highly suggestive vocal snippets from suave announcers, well placed fart noises, and punctuations of brash Herb Alpert-esque horn blasts. Her aural pranks build a context that is downright naughty without ever relying on a punchline. [Read More]

[MP3:What's Music remixed by: Negativland] [MP3: The Gimp/Sometimes remixed by: Coil] [MP3: Barbed 4 People Like Us remixed by: Barbed] [MP3: Handjob remixed by: Plulink]

  • People Like Us - Stifled Love (8 mins 42)
  • People Like Us - We Edit Life (10 mins 13)
  • Vicki Bennett Interview You can watch (but not download) these three videos here (BBC - Radio One)


  
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