Feeling Brazillian...Grab a Fat Slab

While I was doing last month's tribute to Trip-hop, I listened to a bunch of Fila Brazillia when I was working on Steve Cobby's The Solid Doctor segment. Fila Brazillia is one of his two main outlets, the other being Heights of Abraham. 

 

In 1990, Cobby teamed up with David 'Man' McSherry to form Fila Brazillia, named after the mis-heard naming of an agressive breed of dog, the Fila Brasilliero (but with "a Z & two L"). Both artists are members of other bands or work regularly on other projects, but enjoyed getting together in a more casual environment where they simply played what was in their minds & on their fingertips at the moment.

I have a file full of Fila but for some reason never got around to sharing it with you all.

Greedy bugger, ain't I?

Remedying that right here, right now... 

 

Fila Brazillia - Old Codes New Chaos, Pork Recordings PORK014, 1994.
all decryption codes in comments

Old Codes    
Mermaids    
Whose Money    
Brazilification    
Serratia Marcescens    
The Sheriff
Feinman    
The Light of Jesus    
Strange Thoughts
Fila Funk    
Pots & Pans    
New Chaos

Some fantastic soulful downtempo tuneage from FB.  Subtle, body. 

 

Fila Brazillia - Maim that Tune, Pork Recordings PORK 027, 1995.

Dave Yang & Steve Yin De-Swish T' Swish    
A Zed & Two Ls    
Leggy    
At Home in Space    
6ft Wasp    
Slacker    
Harmonicas are Shite    
Extract of Pineal Gland    
Subtle Body

 

 

 

 

 

Fila Brazillia - Mess, Pork Recordings pork 031, 1996.

The Last of the Red Hot Brethren
Big Saddle
Space Hearse    
Half Man Half Granary Thorax    
But Momma
Laying Down the Law on the Lard    
Wavy Gravy    
Soft Music Under Stars    
Hairy Insides    
Dp's R Us    
On Yer Haunches    
Howard Dan Ryan    
Blood
The Return of the Red Hot Brethren

 

 

 

 

 

Their next release combines downtempo chill-outs with hustlin' Latin soul disco & deep space vibes. Songs changes effortlessly mid-stride from trip-hop hazer to breakbeat stomper to blissed-out phase / reverb crescendo's.

 

Fila Brazillia - Black Market Gardening, Pork Recordings PORK 037, 1996.

Obrigado
Snake Ranger
Little Dipper
Blubber Plinth
Butter My Mask    
Wigs, Bifocals, & Nurishment    
Xique-Xique
Onc Mongaani
July 23

 

 

 

 

 

Fila Brazillia - Luck be a Weirdo Tonight, Pork Recordings PORK 045, 1997.

Lieut. Gingivitis Shit
Billy Goat Groupies    
Apehorn Concerto
Hells Rarebit    
Her Majesties Hokey Cokey    
Rustic Bellyflop    
Van Allens Belt    
Pollo de Palo    
Heat Death of the Universe
Weasel out the Muck    
Do the Hale-Bopp

 

 

 

 

 

Fila Brazillia - Power Clown, Pork Recordings PORK055, 1998.

Bovine Funk    
The New Cannonball    
Here Comes Pissy Willy    
Throwing Down a Shape    
Bumpkin Riots
President Chimp Toe    
Firelanes
It Loved to Happen    
Little Hands Rouge    
Tunstall & Californian Haddock    
Feathery Legs    
A Wince of Sumo
The Speewah

 

 

 

 

 

Fila Brazillia - Jump Leads, Twentythree T 010, 2002.

        
Bumblehaun
Motown Coppers    
Spill the Beans
DNA
We Build Arks
It's a Knockout    
Monk's Utterance    
Percival Quintaine
Nightfall
Mother Nature's Spies
The Green Green Grass of Homegrown

 

 

 

 

 

Pork Recordings was co-founded by Dave 'Porky' Brennand & Fila Brazillia's Steve Cobby in 1990. All the Fila releases were on Pork as well as Twentythree. In 2004 Pork Recordings ended, so these last two Fila Brazillia releases are no longer on Pork Recordings, but on Twentythree. Still true to the name Fila Brazillia.

 

 

Fila Brazillia - The Life & Times of Phoebus Brumal, Twentythree - T032, 2004.

Platinum Spider
Underpuppy
Bullshit
Existentialist Singalong
Blowhole
Thatched Neon
You Won't Let Me Rock
La Boulangerie Digitale
Boca Raton
Bantamweight Werewolf
Madame Le Fevre
Romantic Adventure
Uberboff
In the Kingdom of Sound

 

 

 

 

 

This is Fila Brazillia's tenth (hence the name deeks  [dix is ten in French]) & final release. Dicks is a collage of 23 leftovers from the Phoebus Brumal sessions with songs appearing & disappearing so quickly it's "like a machine gun of fun".

 

 

Fila Brazillia - Dicks, Twentythree T033, 2004.

An Impossible Place    
Sidearms & Parsnips    
Shellac    
D'Avros    
The Great Attractor
Kiss My Whippet    
Ballon    
Lullaby Berkowitz    
The Cubist News    
Goggle Box    
Heil Mickey    
Doggin'    
708-7606-19    
And Flesh    
Curveball for the 21st Century    
The Hull Priests    
Sugarplum Hairnet    
Furball Shindig
The Third Tendril of the Squid    
We've Almost Surprised Me    
VD    
Nutty Slack
Septentrion

Enjoy,
NØ