- Not content with producing one remix album, the Hull production duo Fila Brazillia have made enough quality remixes to justify a sequel. Whereas the first included such illustrious names as Radiohead and The Orb, part two is a more underground selection of acts that have requested the Hull makeover.
Some of these are gems – on the uptempo first CD we have a dirty, funky reworking of Fluke’s ‘Tosh’, the uproarious ‘Soul Sauce’ via Cal Tjader and even some Sven Vath, the boys’ remake of ‘Fusion’. CD2 is more chilled and down tempo, with the likes of United Future Organisation, Tosca and Soulstice easing things down. There are occasional hints of scraping the barrel – Ben Christophers’ ‘Leaving My Sorrow Behind’ sounds like a remix by numbers to me, but most of the time the source material is reworked with colour, funk and no little humour. This makes for an essential collection if you’re a Fila / Pork Recordings fan, and well worth dabbling in to for an introduction to their sound.