Fila Brazillia are a music group from Hull in North-East England. Formed in the early 1990s by Steve Cobby & Dave McSherry, they play electronica and ambient techno, and are sometimes described as being nu jazz. Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Electronica is a rather vague term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Nu-jazz (sometimes electro-jazz) was coined in the late 1990s to refer to styles which combine jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation with electronic music. ...

They started on the ambient-downtempo label Pork Recordings (also Hull-based) with the album Old Codes New Chaos, and followed that with the albums Maim That Tune, Mess, Black Market Gardening, Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight and Power Clown. After creating their own music label, "Twentythree", they released the following albums: A Touch Of Cloth, Jump Leads, The Life And Times Of Phoebus Brumal and Dicks. Pork Recordings is a record label based in Hull, north-east England, that specialises in electronica, mostly in the downtempo or chill-out styles. ...

They also released a DJ mix album for the Azuli Records Another Late Night series, Another Late Night: Fila Brazillia. Azuli Records is a record label. ... Late Night Tales and its predecessor Another Late Night are the names of two related series of DJ mix albums released on Azuli Records independent record label. ...

Fila Brazillia have remained constant in dance music's perpetual shape-shifting. Their April 2006 release 'Retrospective' represents the very best of a musical partnership remaining elusively hard to classify.

To celebrate ten albums and twelve years at the top of their game, Dave McSherry and Steve Cobby bring together material from every single album in the FB back catalogue starting with 1994's debut, the ambient house explorations of 'Old Codes New Chaos', to the tongue-in-cheek in-joking of 2004 that was 'Dicks' - that over the last decade have gained plaudits for fun and spanned a myriad of eye-catching artwork and mind-bending track titles.

Peers and contemporaries ranging from Groove Armada to Richard Dorfmeister, Luke Vibert to Lemon Jelly, have all given FB the thumbs up; not to mention the countless acts that have queued round the block for remix treatment Fila Brazillia-style, which in itself has produced two full-length remix projects, and magazines that have been lavishing the pair with praise year in year out. Mixmag, Straight No Chaser, NME, IDJ MAgazine and The Face are but a handful of publications that have bowed down and witnessed the strength of Cobby & McSherry¹s dalliances in freestyle techno, experimental electronica and 360° funk that have crossed the borders into deep house, drum & bass, lounge-hop and general technology tomfoolery along the way.

Which is what Fila Brazillia is primarily all about a soundtrack for those stumbling in at all hours or in need of audio massage, with curveballs thrown in to keep ears cocked; whether it be 'Soft Music Under Stars' with its sitar shimmer and shine, or the big freaky beats of 'You Won't Let Me Rock'.

Such are the twosome's talents that their music has made its mark both on small-screen blockbusters (CSI, Sex and the City) and cult cinema viewing (Dogtown, Riding Giants). FB's mass appeal is based not only in terms of being ideal fodder for clubbers wanting to prolong their night's shape-throwing, but through decade-old material that still sounds completely fresh, Fila's fine wine maturity having zig-zagged across the entire ambient/chill-out/whatever you wanna call it section.

External links

• Fila Brazillia's web site
• 23records
• Fila Brazillia releases