PITS015
Various Artists
"You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Avant Pop"

From Dada to Disco, the commodification and recuperation of all popular culture has been accelerated via ever faster means of communication until we reached this point, the edge of no return.
The musical avant garde, armed with cheap electronics and half forgotten dreams, fights on sporadically. Fresh battlelines are drawn in the subcultural sand, but from 20 jazz funk greats to Reg n' Fearn in a fortnight, things move fast . Fires are quickly doused, and it's back to Saturday repeats of Come Dine with me as the hacienda crumbles around us.
So now we seek to join the urgent struggle to transform our sick, commodity-infested workaday culture into a more sensual, trippy, exotic and networked Avant Pop experience, and it is in this spirit that People in The Sky presents 'And You Will Know Us'.
Proceedings open with young WARP star Bibio's genre defying reworking of Wax Stag's 'Folk Rock', an avant-audio manifesto in three parts. Things move swiftly on to the shimmering, leftfield cosmic antics of Colouring In's 'Intergalactic Romantic', like Arthur Russell gusseted up and gazing up at the stars whilst lying in a London gutter.
New York art troopers Telepathe manage the unlikely feat of combining stuttering, grimey rhythms, shoegazey atmospherics and one of their trademark songs without losing sight of their pop goals. Moscow dreamers Oko fuse East European melancholia with electronic disco for 'Can't You See'.

01 Wax Stag - Folk Rock (Bibio Remix)
Written and Produced by Rob Lee
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2008 People In The Sky
02 Colouring In - Intergalactic Romantic (Radio Edit)
Written by Tom Neville & Henry Bennett
Published by Copyright Control
03 Telepathe - Chromes On It
Written by Telepathe
Published by Copyright Control
04 Plugs - That Number (Video Edit)
Written by Morgan Quaintance
Published by Copyright Control
(P) 2008 People In The Sky
05 Architeq - Sleeping Bear Lament (James Pants Remix)
Written and Produced by Sam Annand
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2008 Tirk
06 Oko - Can't You See
Written and Produced by Anatoly Voronsov, Nickolay Kuibida, & Roman Orekhousky
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2006 No Future
07 Nightwaves - She's Electric (Vega Dub)
Written and Produced by Kyle Petersen and Josh Legg
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2009 People In The Sky
08 Ghostape - Many Stars (Ste Mix)
Written and Produced by Ghebrezghi Gabriel
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2008 People In The Sky
09 The Time and Space Machine - Children of the Sun
Written and Produced by Richard Norris
Published by Copyright Control
(P) 2009 Tirk
10 Friendly Fires - On Board (Nightmoves Remix)
Written & Produced by Friendly Fires
Published by Universal Music
(P) 2008 People In The Sky & XL Recordings
11 Ghostape - In Your Eyes
Written and Produced by Ghebrezghi Gabriel
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2009 People In The Sky
12 Ecce - Control (Pharo Black Magic Mix)
Written and Produced by Nicholas Lisher
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2008 August Day Recordings
13 Plugs - Downtown
Written by Morgan Quaintance
Published by Copyright Control
14 Foto & The Bolton Tadcaster - Love Will Break Her
Written & Produced by Kevin Swain, Enzo Amico & Tom O'Hare
Published by Copyright Control / Dharma Songs
(P) 2009 Nang Records
15 Nuuro - Avila
Written and Produced by Alejandro Ghersi
Published by Dharma Songs
(P) 2009 People In The Sky
(P) 2009 People In The Sky