Fila Brazillia
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Fila Brazillia is Steve Cobby and David McSherry, and originated in
Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire UK - they are best known for their unique
mix of chilled ambient and loose-limbed funk.
Their fibrous, organic electronica and wilfully off-centre funk flies
the flag for chilled-out music-lovers.
In Mixmag, Frank Tope said of their album Old Codes : New Chaos "There
can be little doubt that this is one of the best dance-music albums
ever made, the debut album from Fila Brazillia was launched into a
world before big beat and trip hop took hold, but after the first flush
of Orb and ELF-inspired ambient, this album is truly unique. In places
this has a lolling, hyper-cool, chill-out groove..... In others it's up
and in your face. But it's always funky and always supremely melodic...
In other words it's as essentially Balearic as a bottle of San Miguel
outside Cafe Mambo. Any Fila Brazillia album is worth buying, but if
you can manage to track this down, this alone it is worth its weight in
lbizan gold."
Originally with the highly regarded Pork Recordings - in 1998 Cobby and
McSherry set up Twentythree Records with Sim Lister of Chakk, Heights
of Abraham and J*S*T*A*R*S.
In 2006 Cobby and Lister set up Steel Tiger Records as a home for
J*S*T*A*R*S - which now also releases work by The Cutler, Chieftain,
Peacecorps and Hey, Rube!
Fila Brazillia have seen their music used on a number of projects,
particularly with US director
Stacy Peralta and for UK/ US film and TV
(including Riding Giants (2004),
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006).
In partnership and as individuals, Cobby and McSherry have also been
much in demand as producers and remixers - including with Black Uhuru,
Busta Rhymes, DJ Food, Lamb, Radiohead and The Orb.
Their collaborations include working with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson -
at the Brighton Festival 2005, Steve Cobby was one of the friends and
collaborators who joined the American composer and recording artist
Harold Budd onstage for his farewell concert.
(2012) David McSherry is now a lecturer in Audio Production at the
University of Lincoln.
Steve Cobby continues to record and collaborate "Let's... get on with
the business of Steve Cobby's major contribution to downtempo funk in
this country and leftfield dance music in general." DJ Magazine
In 2012, Steve Cobby has worked with David "Porky" Brennand [maestro of
Pork Recordings] to release their second album as The Cutler (The Best
Things In Life Aren't Things, on Steel Tiger) - and on a new
collaboration with awarding-winning DJ Adam Regan; to release their
first EP (The War Bonnet EP, on Steel Tiger).
Since 2008, Cobby has been working in the studio with
Stephen Mallinder, a founder of the
highly influential electronic group
Cabaret Voltaire - "One of the most
influential electronic bands of all time, cited by everyone from New
Order to Stereolab to Primal Scream. Without Sheffield's Cabs much
modern music could never have been made. Leather-clad and wonderfully
futuristic/ intimidating, they took a sonic blowtorch to the sterility
of modern pop." - Dave Simpson, The Guardian (May 26, 2000).
October 2012 sees Cobby and Mallinder release their first album as Hey,
Rube! (Can you Hear me Mutha?, on Steel Tiger).
Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire UK - they are best known for their unique
mix of chilled ambient and loose-limbed funk.
Their fibrous, organic electronica and wilfully off-centre funk flies
the flag for chilled-out music-lovers.
In Mixmag, Frank Tope said of their album Old Codes : New Chaos "There
can be little doubt that this is one of the best dance-music albums
ever made, the debut album from Fila Brazillia was launched into a
world before big beat and trip hop took hold, but after the first flush
of Orb and ELF-inspired ambient, this album is truly unique. In places
this has a lolling, hyper-cool, chill-out groove..... In others it's up
and in your face. But it's always funky and always supremely melodic...
In other words it's as essentially Balearic as a bottle of San Miguel
outside Cafe Mambo. Any Fila Brazillia album is worth buying, but if
you can manage to track this down, this alone it is worth its weight in
lbizan gold."
Originally with the highly regarded Pork Recordings - in 1998 Cobby and
McSherry set up Twentythree Records with Sim Lister of Chakk, Heights
of Abraham and J*S*T*A*R*S.
In 2006 Cobby and Lister set up Steel Tiger Records as a home for
J*S*T*A*R*S - which now also releases work by The Cutler, Chieftain,
Peacecorps and Hey, Rube!
Fila Brazillia have seen their music used on a number of projects,
particularly with US director
Stacy Peralta and for UK/ US film and TV
(including Riding Giants (2004),
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006).
In partnership and as individuals, Cobby and McSherry have also been
much in demand as producers and remixers - including with Black Uhuru,
Busta Rhymes, DJ Food, Lamb, Radiohead and The Orb.
Their collaborations include working with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson -
at the Brighton Festival 2005, Steve Cobby was one of the friends and
collaborators who joined the American composer and recording artist
Harold Budd onstage for his farewell concert.
(2012) David McSherry is now a lecturer in Audio Production at the
University of Lincoln.
Steve Cobby continues to record and collaborate "Let's... get on with
the business of Steve Cobby's major contribution to downtempo funk in
this country and leftfield dance music in general." DJ Magazine
In 2012, Steve Cobby has worked with David "Porky" Brennand [maestro of
Pork Recordings] to release their second album as The Cutler (The Best
Things In Life Aren't Things, on Steel Tiger) - and on a new
collaboration with awarding-winning DJ Adam Regan; to release their
first EP (The War Bonnet EP, on Steel Tiger).
Since 2008, Cobby has been working in the studio with
Stephen Mallinder, a founder of the
highly influential electronic group
Cabaret Voltaire - "One of the most
influential electronic bands of all time, cited by everyone from New
Order to Stereolab to Primal Scream. Without Sheffield's Cabs much
modern music could never have been made. Leather-clad and wonderfully
futuristic/ intimidating, they took a sonic blowtorch to the sterility
of modern pop." - Dave Simpson, The Guardian (May 26, 2000).
October 2012 sees Cobby and Mallinder release their first album as Hey,
Rube! (Can you Hear me Mutha?, on Steel Tiger).