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Funki Porcini, MP3 Music Download at eMusic (277 words) |
 | Funki Porcini is artist and DJ James Braddell, whose swirling mixtures of downtempo breaks, smooth ambiance, and disjointed drum'n'bass helped put the Coldcut-owned, South London-based Ninja Tune label on the map. |
| The first single from his 1995 Ninja debut, Hed Phone Sex, "Long Road" (with a B-side, "Poseathon," littered with Bongwater samples) was featured on a number of compilations cashing in on the fashionability of "trip-hop," but Porcini's brand of laidback, atmospheric breakbeat is less gimmicky than that connection suggests. |
| Braddell played North America with the Coldcut conglomerate DJ Food as part of the 1996 Unexploded Bomb tour, and has grown increasingly in-demand as a remixer, disorganizing tracks by everyone from Journeyman to the Mike Flowers Pops. |
| Maurice Braddell, 89, An Actor and Writer - New York Times (164 words) |
| Maurice Braddell, an actor, author and art restorer, died July 28 in England. |
| Braddell, born in 1900 in the seacoast city of Folkestone, lived in New York City much of his life, said James Lardner, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who profiled Mr. |
| Braddell wrote several plays, including ''It's You I Want,'' a farce produced on Broadway in 1935. |
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