Artist: Fila Brazillia
Genre(s):
Rock
Dance
Acid Jazz
Trip-Hop
Electronic
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
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.
