Recyclopaedia Britannica, by People Like Us

Recyclopaedia Britannica

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1.	Another Kind of Humor (Intro) 00:21	buy track
2.	OB & Cha Cha 02:22	buy track
3.	Guide To Broadcasting (excerpt) 00:19	buy track
4.	Smash & Grab 03:06	buy track
5.	The Sacred Erm 02:03	buy track
6.	Sing With Melodious Inarticulate Sound... 00:45	buy track
7.	A Crossed Line (excerpt) 00:37	buy track
8.	Clippety Cart Horse 02:46	buy track
9.	In The Panto 01:05	buy track
10.	Ursula Fährt Ski 04:43	buy track
11.	T424PLU (excerpt 1) 03:06	buy track
12.	More Plunderblunders (excerpt 1) 01:25	buy track
13.	Ski Hell (excerpt) 00:43	buy track
14.	We Believe (excerpt) 03:58	buy track
15.	T424PLU (excerpt) 05:36	buy track
16.	Sound Escape (excerpt 1) 03:49	buy track
17.	Sound Escape (excerpt 2) 03:07	buy track
18.	Handjob 00:46	buy track
19.	If Someone Touches You 03:20	buy track
20.	Music Of Your Own 00:32	buy track
21.	Millenium Dome 01:29	buy track
22.	My Son Jim 04:26	buy track
23.	More Plunderblunders (excerpt 2) 00:31	buy track
24.	Oompah Pumpah 04:39	buy track
25.	I'm 89 02:08	buy track
26.	Take A Walk 03:40	buy track
27.	Morning Pedro 03:35	buy track
28.	We Believe (excerpt) 01:01	buy track
29.	Bran Mash & Crushed Beans (excerpt) 00:49	buy track
30.	We're Gonna Be Around 01:11	buy track
31.	Recyclopaedia Britannica Cassette Side A 33:01
32.	Recyclopaedia Britannica Cassette Side B 35:07

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PRESSING INFORMATION
Release date: 19th October 2018
Pro-duped cassettes
150 copies only, no repress
Originally released in April 2002 on Mess Media (thru Soleilmoon)

First released on Mess Media in 2002 on CD, and then reissued on cassette in 2018 on Sucata Tapes, we've combined the digital files of both to bring this to you all on one place. This was compiled as a Best Of People Like Us from pre-2000. Amazing to think it is almost 20 years later that we write this. This represents an earlier life of PLU, some of which carries through to now, some left long behind...

We've supplied artwork and text (by Drew Daniel, Steve Thrower and Graham Duff) for both versions of the release.

“The work of People Like Us rests gingerly between two dangerous positions: on the one hand, the risk of fashioning merely stylish pastiche out of borrowed finery for the sake of self-conscious kitschiness; on the other hand, the risk of making simplistic, heavy handedly “topical” audio-jokes at the expense of one’s raw material to a smug effect. If the lounge creeps uncritically snack on their sonic ingredients and coast on being “groovy”, the cads of pseudo-critique take cheap shots at straw men and call it subversion. Happily, Vicki Bennett has yet to fall down either precipice, but yodels down contentedly from her own Alpine audio-cottage. There, with loving care, she snips and tucks at the lycra jumpsuit until the fit is snug, places every plastic shrub on the Happy Valley Ranch just so, and throws another dance record on the bonfire. Undercutting her own utopian mirages with formal breakdowns and sneaky semantic pranks, Vicki Bennett is One Funny Lady, with a deadly sense of comic timing that puts her in my personal pantheon of edit intensive music makers: -Steinski and Mass Media, Hank Shocklee, Tod Dockstader, Teo Macero, the Hanatarash, John Oswald, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock. Serving her birthday cake with a turd, her gags are always lined with a virulent creep factor. You get the feeling that the vacancy and pointlessness of empty speech is being lampooned and mourned in equal measure. In sticking to this balance of celebration and critique, People Like Us genuinely hates and loves People Like You. The least you can do is head up to the Happy Valley Ranch for a spell and have a listen.” – Drew Daniel (Matmos) 2002

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released October 19, 2018

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People Like Us London, UK

Since 1991, Vicki Bennett has been repurposing pre-existing footage to craft a/v collages, seeing sampling as folk art in the age of mechanical reproduction, with all of the sharing and cross-referencing incumbent to a populist form. Embedded in her work is the premise that all is interconnected and that claiming ownership of an “original” or isolated concept is both preposterous and redundant. ... more

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