The world that Jesse Sinclair Dewlow inhabits as People Skills has always seemed to lie slightly beyond or behind any conventional sense of reality. Lo-fi hum, spraycan hiss and interstitial ambience lay thick over an alternative pop instinct, a kind of uncanny re-rendering of melodically centred underground music into its own purgatorial, liminal space.
This hour and a half long mix goes some way to exploring the People Skills aesthetic through the music of others, forging connections from the disparate constellation of outsider/margin walking music. Or as Dewlow himself explains, "impressionistically suggestive of sounds /moods on new LP". Simply put, there's a lot to discover here, new paths of inquiry with which to merge and/or consider, and more evidence of the mutli-verse underground that can, at its best, feel genuinely limitless.
People Skill's latest record, Hum of the Non-Engine is out now.
Tracklist
1. A Cloakroom Assembly - Tuesday Night (forthcoming reissue - Saga House, originally released - MSquared, 1982 cass, AU)
2. Roy Finch - Caribou (Palace of Lights, 1982 lp, US)
3. Alio Die - Mazes And Labirints (Putrefactio, 1992 cass comp, PT)
4. Vasilisk - Cracking (Eskimo, 1987 lp, JP)
5. Electroscope - Friends in Exile (Boa Records, 1999 cd, UK)
6. Half High - #4 (R.I.P. Society, 2012 lp, AU)
7. Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Archaic Soundtrack (Afterdays Media, 1995 cdr, US)
8. Hood - Smash Your Head on the Cubist Jazz (Slumberland Records, 1996 cd, UK)
9. Sunken - Lid (PseudoArcana, 2004 cdr, NZ)
10. Die Fabriek - Kleeblat (New Bulwark Records, 1982 cass, NL)
11. Ruth's Refrigerator - Examine the Insects and Hit Them *excerpt (Madagascar,
1991 lp, BE)
12. Darksmith - Disguised Like a Child (Second Sleep, 2018 lp,IT)
13. Darksmith - Hold Me Close (Second Sleep, 2018 lp,IT)
14. Thee Majesty - G. Cortex Ov Light (Invisible, 1996 cd US)
15. Ian Middleton - Beam (Entr'acte, 2009 lp, UK)
16. The Black Vial - The Jaguar and the Yellow Colours (De Stijl, 2002 lp, US)
17. Richard Pinhas - Gilles Deleuze: Beyond Hyperion (Tangram, 1994 CD, FR)
18. Hydroplane - Oregon Snow (Drive-In Records, 1998 12", US)
19. Anthony Milton - The Clearest Morning (PseudoArcana, 2017 lp, NZ)
20. Alien Brains - 02 untitled *excerpt from IV: Natural Advantages (Alien Brains self released, 1980 cass, UK)
21. Sandra Boss - Akkromatisk Legeme (BIN, 2015 lp, DE)
22. Motoko & Meyers - Basis Key (Open Hand Real Flames, 2018 files, NL)
23. The Woods - Love Me Again This Summer (forthcoming lp - Dot Matrix, Originally released 1985 Justine Records 7")
24. Dan Sour - Fauvel Pit (Spoor llc, 2023 lp, US)
25. Machines At Last - The Grey (Quick Stab, 1982 cass, UK)
26. Letha Rodman Melchior - Le Perouse Puce (Siltbreeze, 2015 lp, US)