John, would you recommend People Like Us and Gabba to people from this list? i'll admit, that reading their descriptions from that article, i'm quite interested to find out how they sound - would you think they would be appreciated by other KLF-ites???? On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 07:11 PM, John wrote: People Like Us is the work of Vicki Bennett. Vicki Bennett is One Funny
Lady, with a deadly sense of comic timing. Her CDs and LPs feature her unique plunderphonic styling. Dadaist samplings and her reshuffling of cultural oddities from discarded LPs is a recurrent theme, as is the use of intercepted radio broadcasts gutted and completely recontextualised. There is an air of both humour and impending doom within the work of PLU. From her first release in 1991, to her latest project, People Like Us has created or contributed to more than 25 CDs and records as well as several collaborative releases and numerous compilation tracks.
GABBA was created by Stig Honda, the eccentric Japanese Professor at the Osaka Rock and Roll High School. In search of the formula for pop perfection, he accidentally fused the raw energy of New York punk music (Ramones) and the pretty melodies and harmonies of Scandinavian pop (Abba) and GABBA was bjorn. Celebrated paranoid genius producer, Phil Smegma, was enlisted to fine tune... er... their tunes and turn them into the discopunk sensation that they are today.
-- Jai Nelson jai@illitrate.co.uk --- "What's it all about Ted? Life, all this?" "Well the way i look at it, sir, your born, and when your number's up, your gone. And well, anything else in between, well that's a bonus, isn't it sir?"