PEOPLE LIKE US+ABRAXAS DEBUT LP PLUNDERPHONICS-TAPE COLLAGE-CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

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PEOPLE LIKE US / ABRAXAS

 ANOTHER KIND OF HUMOUR / ANOTHER KIND OF MURDER LP

World Serpent 

special packaging 

Limited edition original issue, great tape collage, plunderphonics, cut-ups from british pioneers People Like Us and Abraxas.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, comes in a clear sleeve, with sticker attached and printed acetate wheel held in the centre of the front of the sleeve by a split pin. Released in Uk sometime in the early 90's on the great World Serpent label (Chris & Cosey, Moon Lay Hidden beneath a cloud, Lustmord, Current 93, Death In June, Nurse with wound, Coil etc.). The rare debut of both People like Us and Abraxas. In the vein of Negativland, John Oswald, Otomo Yoshihide, Philip Jeck, Christian Marclay, etc.

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio.

Vicki Bennett, under the name People Like Us, has been smash-and-grabbing from the shallows of cultural waters for eleven years. Over the course of more than ten solo albums, as well as dozens of contributions to compilations and collaborations with like-minded artists, dadaist samplings and reshuffling of cultural oddities have been recurrent themes.   Likewise, the use of "found" and recontextualised recordings into entirely new soundscapes has played a major role, exposing simultaneously the ridiculous and the sinister. People Like Us expose a surreal world of bad connections and faulty communications, where presenters, interviewees, lost stars and found sounds become trapped in a misfiring loop of reference and repetition. Bellowing a gagged love song in a stifled spew, this mean mash of psychobabble is a window into a world of monotony induced trance.   Using modern tools as afforded by the advent of desktop video/audio manipulation and editing, People Like Us create new landscapes where once were merely soundscapes; the two disciplines are seamlessly melded together. There is no limit to the possibilities for new emerging narratives in the visual and aural world of People Like Us, narratives spoken in a voice unique in the world of mixed-media appropriated art.   At present is working on a commission ("in.site") for The Lux in London, for an online a piece about the benefits of keeping archives not just in the past, but available to the present. In September 2003, Vicki performed a concert at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and also took part in the symposium, Sample Culture at the Tate Modern.

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent condition, looks clean with some "clouds" (from the plastic packaging, that do not affect playing)and plays nicely with light occasional crackle, while the plastic special cover lies in very good+ shape, with splitting (see picture).

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