Brazilification

Fila Brazillia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Label: Kudos Recordings
• ASIN: B00004SQYY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,602 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls

2. Phosphorous - Asthma

3. Moloko - Lotus Eaters

4. Ponga - Awesome Wells

5. Unkle - Barry Meditation

6. Mellow - Mellow

7. Euphoria - Delirium

8. DJ Food - Freedom

9. The Orb - Toxygene

Disc: 2

1. Freakpower - New Direction

2. Chaser - Blue Planet

3. Simple Minds - Theme From Great Cities

4. Robin Jones - Royal Rhumba

5. Irresistable Force - Nepalese Bliss

6. The Egg - Bend

7. Lamb - Cotton Wool

8. ACR - Samba 123

9. Black Uhuru - Boof 'N' Baff 'N' Biff

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Would have been on one CD, June 22, 2000

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Serge (North Brunswick, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilification (Audio CD)

Brazilification is somewhat of a mixed bag. Fila is a bit of a critics' favorite, and certainly some tracks show why. The sound ranges from exellent chill-out techno of Electric Orange-meets-Orb on the better songs to unengaging repetitiveness on others, dragged down by a dry mix. On the good tracks, the trippy ambient feel is not lost to a boring drum loop.

Strangely enough the Orb remix is not one of the better tracks (looping the doppler-shifted car horn from the original gets very annoying). The album starts strong with Climbing Up Walls, with Fila being smart enough to leave Thom Yorke's vocals, which on this song would song good a-capella, intact. But the rest of the first CD is uneven, the second CD being definitely the better half.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Essential for Casual Listeners as well as Filla fans....., February 19, 2004

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fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilification (Audio CD)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BRAZILIFIED!!!, August 16, 2005

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Darrell L. Lee "dlatrell" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brazilification (Audio CD)

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!!!!