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Under the guise of People Like Us, British sound collagist and DJ Vicki Bennett blends samples from music, radio and television in a Cut Up style to form “ic” new melodies. A frequent theme of her music is the extraction of familiar snippets of popular music, which are subsequently interrupted or morphed just when the listener has begun to feel comfortable with what they’re hearing. This style has been dubbed “”.

People Like Us has collaborated with musical peers Wobbly and Negativland.

Most of the People Like Us material is available under a license from http://www.peoplelikeus.org. Also do check the archives of Do Or DIY program on freeform radio WFMU.

Then there was also the South African Hi-NRG act around Paul Crossley and Terry Owen that formed out of the ashes of Shiraz.

With the additional vocal talents of Cindy Dickinson the group achieved a surprising measure of success in the mid-80’s with their “Deliverance” song.
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  • ScullyCaribou

    @ aseekely - it's easy, you just right-click on the hypertext track titles and select where you want to save it. I've downloaded a good few gigabytes off that site over the years.

    15 days ago

  • cadavreflex

    You must click the switches in this very order: the red switch, the black, the purple switch. Any other order and your OS may go into stub-mode, which can only be remedied by rebooting whilst simultaneously strangling an undead orangutan.

    17 days ago

  • aseekely

    Beautiful but I can't figure out how to download from Ubu?

    28 days ago

  • tom_dissonance

    Vicki you are wonderful

    last month

  • pokolo

    didn't know she had a new album this year until the other day... it's nice

    December 2011

  • Bastafa

    I like them

    August 2011

  • Criznittle

    People Like Us "Happy Lost Songs" is featured on Indie/Rock Playlist: August (2011) http://theindierockplaylist.com

    August 2011

  • tassoebockewal

    +__+>> http://www.lastfm.de/music/Wir+Affen

    February 2011
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2 Oct 2012 | from www.peoplelikeus.org/

Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us. By animating and recontextualising found footage collages Vicki gives an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge. …

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