Search - Fila Brazillia :: Brazilification

As Essential for Casual Listeners as well as Filla fans.....

fetish_2000 | U.K. | 02/20/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Remix album's can be a fickle beast, with some examples skilfully reinterpreting/Matching Or surpassing the source material, and others merely an exercise in futility. `Fila Brazillia' thankfully feature in the former group, by taking a broad section of artist's work, and not only reworking the songs to fit within a Trip-Hop/Ambient framework, but making it seem like an obvious move. "Radiohead/Black Uhuru/Simple Minds & Robin Jones" are not names that are normally associated with Trip-Hop, but they reconstructed tracks work beautifully here (especially, Radiohead's downtempo mastering of "Climbing the Walls"). And the artists that are considered either Electronica or Downtempo (Lamb, Moloko, Lamb, Orb) are either given a slinky elegant makeover, or blissfully drum-heavy & effect-laded & distorted into a vision the creators themselves would probably envisage the same idea. Such is the skilfulness of this remix album, that even if you're not particularly a avid fan of `Fila Brazillia' that buying this and entering into it with an open mind is a must, as there's enough diversity & easily digestible tracks here to entice people that aren't familiar with Fila Brazillia's studio albums. In fact such is the greatness of this remix album, that I'd go so far as to say that it outstrips their studio albums."

BRAZILIFIED!!!

Darrell L. Lee | Jackson, MS | 08/17/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is outstanding remix material from two of the most revered producers in the downtempo/trip-hop genre! And although I haven't heard the original mixes to a lot of the songs on the phenomenal "Brazilification", I can honestly say that Cobby and McSherry do wonders with them. I'm sure under any other circumstances I wouldn't listen to a lot these artists (Who the hell is "Freakpower", btw?), but with FB's magic touch I probably would give them a chance. Remixes done on songs from highly successful acts like Radiohead, Moloko, Lamb and UNKLE, to name only a few, give the music a new style and added flava. Remix albums usually make me sick on my stomach--save the K&D Sessions--but when you have talent like Fila Brazillia runnin' thangz, you're sure to be satisfied. Very Nice Work!!!!"