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Album: Old Codes New Chaos - 20th Anniversary Edition [ALBUM]
Track: 4 of 16
Title: Brazilification
Artist: Fila Brazillia
Label: Twentythree
Cat#: T2336
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 4th August 2014

About This Release:

Buried Treasure
The one that got away There can be little doubt that this is one of the best dance music albums ever made. Released in 1994, 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. Coming after the initial chunky Leftfield-style house of the first Pork releases, but before the spliff took hold and Pork got stuck into their current down 'n' easy groove we now all love so well, this album is truly unique. Those speech samples place it in an early Nineties framework and are every bit as effective as The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds' 'Serratia Marcescans' mixes glittering ambient with the rambling reminiscences of a bunch of GIs fucked on acid. It's as brilliant as it sounds. Then tracks like 'The Light of Jesus' and 'Pots & Pans' pick up the pace with some chunky grooves that would fit in well enough at any Ibiza beach-front cafe. In places this has a lolling, hyper-cool, chill-out groove, such as on the supreme trip hop departure 'The Sheriff'. In others it's up and in your face. But it's always funky and always supremely melodic... a bit like a Sasha set on valium. In other words it's as essentially Balearic as a bottle of San Miguel outside Cafe Mambo. All the more surprising, then that the album is made by a bunch of stoners from Hull who have never been to the White Island. 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.
Frank Tope

Reviews for This Release:

"Buried Treasure The one that got away There can be little doubt that this is one of the best dance music albums ever made. Released in 1994, 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. Coming after the initial chunky Leftfield-style house of the first Pork releases, but before the spliff took hold and Pork got stuck into their current down 'n' easy groove we now all love so well, this album is truly unique. Those speech samples place it in an early Nineties framework and are every bit as effective as The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds' 'Serratia Marcescans' mixes glittering ambient with the rambling reminiscences of a bunch of GIs fucked on acid. It's as brilliant as it sounds. Then tracks like 'The Light of Jesus' and 'Pots & Pans' pick up the pace with some chunky grooves that would fit in well enough at any Ibiza beach-front cafe. In places this has a lolling, hyper-cool, chill-out groove, such as on the supreme trip hop departure 'The Sheriff'. In others it's up and in your face. But it's always funky and always supremely melodic... a bit like a Sasha set on valium. In other words it's as essentially Balearic as a bottle of San Miguel outside Cafe Mambo. All the more surprising, then that the album is made by a bunch of stoners from Hull who have never been to the White Island. 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." - Frank Tope (Mixmag)

"As there is a fear of ever buying a car that came off the production line on a Friday night then it should follow that there is a fear of buying albums that were reviewed by journalists on Sunday afternoons So don't say I didn't warn you but I'm doing just that now and take all Sunday afternoon advice - this albums a real corker. Produced by a band whose name has been banded around 'trendy' circles for a while and who have continually turned out well-crafted, solid singles. This pisses all over the wishy washiness of many people trying to create funky ambient sounds and if I was gonna compare, and I can't help myself, picks up from where Ultramarine's ' Every Man and Woman is a Star' left off. A healthy seventy six minutes and a brilliant watercolour print on the cover - don't wait for Christmas. 9/10" - Gordon Knott (DJ magazine)