Abridged Too Far

People Like Us

1 Nothing 3:52
2 The Doody Waltz 5:54
3 I've Got You 3:03
4 Gesundheit 1:16
5 Who Cares 2:23
6 Ja Ich 3:22
7 Dolly Pardon 3:58
8 Ach Du 5:15
9 Listen To The 1:25
10 Tiny Labyrinth of Distraction 1:46
11 Cattle Call 2:54
12 Abridged Too Far 4:09
13 Bier Bier Bier Downtown 3:03
14 Sedimental Journey 1:28
15 Swinglargo 5:18
16 Close To You 6:07
17 Retreat To Fade 3:46
18 Happy Wonderer 3:24
19 Downtown Once More 3:42
20 DO or DIY 4:02
21 Nobody Does 4:59

First released in digital-only form in 2004 exclusively for UbuWeb (ubu.com), this album includes Vicki’s John Peel session and performances for WFMU, amongst others, both from 2003, and now with brand new artwork designed by Vicki Bennett.

"We strongly believe in the power of profit through free distribution. Often people have never heard of an artist because they aren't being distributed through as many channels as they should be, due to the very poor state of music/media distribution for non-major label music coupled with ignorance of the way that avant garde art forms infiltrate mainstream culture. Also many prints of a work are allowed to go out of circulation or are deleted for no reason other than cost effectiveness by a label/publisher. This makes perfect sense financially, but no sense whatsoever that a year's work by an artist should also disappear for such reasons. So get all of this while you can, and we completely endorse getting one's work out there, no matter what. If you don't share, your profit is limited." - People Like Us, 2004”

People Like Us is audiovisual collage artist Vicki Bennett, who has been making work available via CD, DVD and vinyl releases, radio broadcasts, performances, gallery exhibits and online streaming for 25 years. Since 1992, she has developed an immediately recognisable aesthetic repurposing pre-existing footage to craft audio and video collages with an equally dark and witty take on popular culture. She sees sampling and appropriation as folk art sourced from the palette of contemporary media and technology, 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.”

People Like Us

Based in the UK, Vicki Bennett has spent decades pioneering the art of audio-visual plunderphonics. Digging deep into archival media, she cuts and pastes found audio and film into sharp, witty collages that question how we archive, own, and consume culture, cementing her status as a foundational figure in experimental sampling.