Fila Brazillia is an electronica collaboration from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire in North-East England. Formed in 1990 by Steve Cobby & David McSherry, they play electronica, ambient, techno, rock, funk and dub, and are sometimes erroneously described as downtempo.
Their early releases on Pork Recordings (also based in Hull),
Old Codes New Chaos,
Maim That Tune,
Mess,
Black Market Gardening,
Luck Be a Weirdo Tonight and
Power Clown followed. After creating their own music label with Sim Lister, Twentythree Records, they released further albums
A Touch Of Cloth,
Jump Leads,
The Life And Times Of Phoebus Brumal,
Dicks and
Retrospective.
They also released a DJ mix album for the Azuli Records Another Late Night series,
Fila Brazillia in 2001 and Another Fine Mess : Fila Brazillia in 2002.
Their collaborations include working with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson to release
Three White Roses & A Budd (Twentythree Records, 2002).
They co-produced the first Twilight Singers LP
Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers with Greg Dulli in 2001.
Cobby and McSherry have produced more than 70 remixes for artists including Black Uhuru, Busta Rhymes, DJ Food, Lamb, Radiohead and The Orb.
Bill Hicks, the controversial American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic 'appears' on Fila Brazillia's album
Maim That Tune (1996) and the album is dedicted to Hicks.
Their music has made its mark both on small-screen blockbusters (such as
CSI and
Sex and the City) and cult cinema films such as
Dogtown and Z-Boys,
Riding Giants and
Once in a Lifetime , a 2006 documentary about the New York Cosmos soccer team.
Discography
Studio Albums
Singles
- "Mermaids" (Pork Recordings, 1991)
- "Neanderthal" (Twentythree Records, 2007)
EPs
- Sycot Motion (Mindfood, 1996)
- Three White Roses & A Budd (with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson) (Twentythree Records, 2002 - recorded 2000)
- Saucy Joints (Twentythree Records, 2002)
- We Build Arks (Twentythree Records, 2002)
- One Track Mind (Twentythree Records, 2007)
Compilations
- Music for Freelance (1999)
- Retrospective (Twentythree Records, 2006)
Remixes
- Brazilification - remixes 95-99 (Kudos, 1999)
- 12 Brazilliant Remixes
- B2 - 21 Brazilliant Remixes (Twentythree Records, 2003)
DJ Mix Albums
- Fila Brazillia (Azuli Records, 2001)
- Another Fine Mess: Fila Brazillia
Other Cobby projects
- The Cutler
- J*S*T*A*R*S
- The Solid Doctor
- The Heights of Abraham
- North East Sound System
- J J Fuchs
- Steel Tiger Records
Other McSherry projects
Other artists with releases on Twentythree Records
- The Solid Doctor
- Mandrillus Sphynx
- The Heights of Abraham
- North East Sound System
See also
- List of independent UK record labels
- List of electronic music record labels
External links
British electronic music groups
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