Fungi Porchini

Here's the second round of requests from Mauxuam. That oh so funky mushroom, Funki Porcini... 

 

 

James Braddell is Funki Porcini. Though born in London, he abandoned his Kings Court squat at the age of nineteen for the new environs of America. He arrived in Los Angeles with only three hundred dollars to his name. He took a menial labor job to survive, stocking shelves in a Westwood department store. When he had earned enough money, he hitch-hiked to San Francisco. Once in San Francisco, he bought a saxophone & moved into the Residents' old warehouse, where Snakefinger was still living. San Francisco had an active post punk scene of radical experimentation. It was there that Porcini started his journey in music. Although rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as Mark Pauline / Survival Research Laboratories, Monte Cazzaza, Factrix, & a host of other underground artists, Porcini decided to head to New York with two friends.

Porcini lived in the East Village with new found Australian friend Graeme Revell of the band SPK. He enjoyed NYC but eventually moved back to England, then a brief stop-over in Berlin, then on to Italy where he remained for 10 years making music for film & television, establishing his 9Lazy9 label with Keir Fraser.

Making connections with UK label Ninja Tune, Porcini returned to England. He set up his studio The Uterus Goldmine & recorded his first album Hed Phone Sex. 

 

 

Funki Porcini - Hed Phone Sex, Ninja Tune ZENCD17, 1995.
all decryption codes in comments

 

 

CD 1 -
A Word of Vice    
B Monkey    
Dubble    
King Ashabanapal Pt. 1
The Deep    
King Ashabanapal Pt. 2 
Michael's Little Friend    
White Slave    
Poseathon    
Wicked, Cruel, Nasty, & Bad    
Pork Albumen    
The Softest Thing in the World (Motorway Accident)    
Something Wonderful    
Tiny Kangaroo Dolphin (from Hell)    
Long Road

CD2 -
King Ashabanapal (Dillinja mix)
Suck Acid Pearl & Dean
Hyde Park
King Ashabanapal (Digidub mix)
King Ashabanapal (Part 0.75)
Farewell Alice
King Ashabanapal (Plaid mix)

 

 

 

I chose this one 'cuz it's got theme music for me (NØ)... 

Funki Porcini - Love, Pussycats, & Carwrecks, Ninja Tune ZENCD23, 1996.

Purrfect (with Stinky Jim & Unitone HiFi)
Groover    
The Last Song    
Snip & Lick    
Carwreck    
The Afterlife    
12 Points Off Your Licence
Venus    
Hyde Park    
Theme Music for Nothing    
I'm Such a Small Thing    
Going Down

 

 

  

& before you fall... 

 

 

Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep, Ninja Tune ZENCD57, 2002.

What are You Looking At?    
The Big Sea    
We're Out of Here    
50,000 Ft Freefall    
Sleepy    
The Great Drive By    
Last Night over Norway    
New Dope
16 Megatons    
Tokyosaka Train    
Terminal C3 UK    
Weow    
Offshore Birmingham    
Back Home

 

 

 

 

Since the release of Fast Asleep, Porcini has been working on diverse projects involving animation & film scores; still at the Uterus Goldmine in deepest Warwickshire.

Hope you enjoy these Mauz,
NØ