Thermos Explorer (2023 reissue)

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Thermos Explorer was originally released in 2000 on the wonderful Hot Air label, and that first edition went out of print maybe 15 years or so ago. So here we are bringing it back to life. People Like Us has changed quite a bit over the years, and this is a time capsule of a new century and lots of new opportunities, new collaborations, and new friends.

Released on Bandcamp Friday, 2 June 2023.

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	1.	Music Of Your Own 00:32
	2.	Take A Walk 03:40
	3.	I'm 89 02:08
	4.	Snippy 02:20
	5.	People Like You 01:05
	6.	Ipanmnmna 02:53
	7.	Millenium Dome 01:29
	8.	Uh Dear 01:29
	9.	Cream Crackers 01:59
	10.	Moronically Yours 03:02
	11.	Sugarbeat 01:01
	12.	Whistle Song 04:37
	13.	Caciocavallo 03:29
	14.	Pauline 00:34
	15.	Kitten 01:12
	16.	Importance of Mistakes 01:42
	17.	Sardines 01:39
	18.	Dolphy 01:05
	19.	Sugar and Splice 05:23
	20.	Nobody Does 00:47
	21.	ILY 00:39
	22.	People Like You 00:59
	23.	Serenade 13:02

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Recently when compiling tracks for our retrospective double CD "Sharity!" we noticed what unique energy the Thermos Explorer (2000) period of People Like Us has. It represents to us the time when quite a lot of changes were happening, the dawn of fast internet and affordable computers, napster and email, and for People Like Us the same time marks personal changes - having been seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident and spending much of the time making this being pretty immobile (hence inner sleeve artwork, by Matt Wand!), and once out of hospital deciding to go to the US for the first time to visit various friends made as a result of all the networking that had suddenly become possible.

Also, that time brought an interesting transition for technology from analogue, early digital (MiniDisc) editing, having a wonderful Roland DJ70 sampling keyboard, yet not quite having a fast enough computer yet...

Thermos Explorer was originally released in 2000 on the wonderful Hot Air label, and that first edition went out of print maybe 15 years or so ago. So here we are bringing this special album back to life. People Like Us has changed quite a bit over the years, and this is a time capsule of a new century and lots of new opportunities, new collaborations, and new friends.

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released June 2, 2023

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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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