John Powell

   
Artist: John Powell

   Genre(s): 
Retro
   

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Discography:


   
 Robots

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 19

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Fila Brazillia

   
Artist: Fila Brazillia

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Dance
   Acid Jazz
   Trip-Hop
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Retrospective

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5


   
 B2 (cd2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 B2 (cd1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Jump Leads

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Another Late Night

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 A Touch Of Cloth

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Power Clown

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 13


   
 Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Mess

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Black Market Gardening

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Maim That Tune

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9


   
 Old Codes New Chaos

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12

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Hull-based duette Fila Brazillia is the most popular and acclaimed of the notable Pork Recordings stable. Formed in 1990 by producers Steve Cobby and Dave McSherry, Fila followed Cobby's association with Ashley & Jackson, a moderately successful pop/dance mathematical group signed to Big Life! that went belly up as the label began demanding more and more pop out and less dance. Returning to his native Hull from Manchester, Cobby met DJ/dabbler Dave Pork, and the deuce bad a originative alliance. Hooking up with McSherry to form Fila, the group's number one 12", "The Mermaid," was released that same year on Pork's fledgling imprint (formed, actually, specifically for the occasion), gaining inst clap among DJs and headphonauts alike for its innovational fusion of funk, dub, house, hip-hop, and acid jazz.


The group followed their debut single with a string of full-length releases (Old Codes, New Chaos, Maim That Tune, and Opprobrious Market Gardening among them), which were instrumental in construction Pork's reputation as one of the nigh reproducible and well-thought-of of England's huge ocean of resistance breakbeat/trip-hop labels. Later releases integrated elements of down and drum'n'bass on a number of tracks. Fila's rep too translated into a number of acclaimed remixes, including Lamb's "Cotton Wool," the Orb's "Toxygene," and DJ Food's "Exemption" (over a 12 of which were featured on the 2000 compendium Brazilification). During the new millennium, the twosome released the mix album Some other Late Night in 2001 and the studio apartment elbow grease Jump Leads early the following year. After deuce years of recording inactivity, in 2004 the duet released a couple of production albums (The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal and Dicks), addition another mix album (Some other Fine Mess). In addition to Fila, Cobby is as well an active member of other Pork stable acts of the Apostles such as Solid Doctor (his solo guise) and Heights of Abraham, both of which get released a number of full-length recordings.

The Butlers

   
Artist: The Butlers

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   Ska
   

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Discography:


   
 Wanja's Choice

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 15


   
 Time Tunnel

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13

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Green River

   
Artist: Green River

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Rehab Doll-Dry As a Bone

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 16

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Green River were arguably the number one soil band, forming about the same time as the roost of Seattle's number one moving ridge (the Melvins, Soundgarden, and Malfunkshun). In 1985, they became the number one soil lot to release a record, kickstarting the Seattle music conniption and later portion to show the Sub Pop pronounce. However, Green River ar even more far-famed for the bands that sprang from their breakup: Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone, the latter of which likewise contained the roots of Pearl Jam. That lineage more or less overshadows Green River's genuine euphony, which helped lay out the design for grunge just didn't necessarily rank and file among its nigh surpassing expressions. Green River specialised in a unclean, sludgy, gleefully horrible crossbreed of punk, heavy metallic element, and bluesy hard stone, drawing from bands like the Stooges and Aerosmith in addition to the hard-core punk outfits where many of the members first cut their teeth. Its invoke tends to depend upon the depth of the listener's interest group in filth, but regardless, the seeds of a revolution ar certainly audible.K River were formed in Seattle in 1984, pickings their name from the area's notorious, then-recent nonparallel killer (wHO wasn't brought to justice until around two decades later). Lead vocalist/guitarist Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner had previously played together in the local hard-core bands Mr. Epp and the Limp Richerds, spell drummer Alex Vincent (aka Alex Shumway) came from Spluii Numa and bassist Jeff Ament from Deranged Diction. Late in the class, second base guitar player Stone Gossard -- Turner's former bandmate in the Ducky Boys -- came onboard, allowing Arm to boil down only on vocalizing. Green River started playing local clubs, and in 1985 they recorded two tracks for the compilation record album Deep Six, the inauguration release on local indie C/Z Records (it besides featured other tracks by Soundgarden, the Melvins, Malfunkshun, and Skin Yard). Later in 1985, Green River went to New York to criminal record their debut EP, Come On Down, for the Homestead label.Following the vent of Come On Down, Steve Turner left the band (reportedly over his distaste for its metal influences) and was replaced by Bruce Fairweather, world Health Organization had played with Ament in Deranged Diction. In the summer of 1986, the group recorded some other EP, Dry as a Bone, in Seattle with producer Jack Endino; it was issued by Bruce Pavitt's fledgling Sub Pop label in July 1987. Green River after began work on an eight-song mini-album for Sub Pop, which was released in early 1988 under the claim Rehab Doll. By the sentence it appeared, though, intra-band tensions were watering Green River apart. The central issue was mercantilism: Gossard and Ament treasured to quest after a major-label handle, piece Arm favorite to remain independent and track record for Sub Pop. The last pale yellow on the face of it stemmed from a gig in Los Angeles; Arm treasured to give his friends backstage passes, but establish that Ament had reserved them all for A&R reps world Health Organization never showed up. Not long subsequently Rehab Doll appeared, Green River formally disbanded.Branch reunited with Turner to form the punkier Mudhoney, spell Gossard, Ament, and Fairweather joined up with ex-Malfunkshun singer Andrew Wood in the glammier Mother Love Bone. Following Wood's death from a heroin o.d., Gossard and Ament stirred on to institute the staggeringly successful Pearl Jam with vocalizer Eddie Vedder. Fairweather, meantime, stirred on to Love Battery. In late 1993, during a Pearl Jam encore in Las Vegas, Arm and Turner joined Gossard and Ament onstage for a one-time-only Green River reunion.