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).
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).
