Funki Porcini

Funki Porcini
Origin England
Genres Downtempo
Turntablism
Electronic music
Breakbeat
Future Jazz
Trip hop
Years active 1983–present
Labels Ninja Tune
Shadow Records
Sideburn Recordings
Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
Website Funki Porcini Bandcamp

Funki Porcini is musician and film maker, James Braddell, from England. His music is a combination of Downtempo, Breakbeat and Jazz with elements of Hip hop, Drum and bass, sampling and time-stretched vocals. The name "Funki Porcini" is a twist on "Funghi Porcini", the italian name of the mushroom Boletus edulis, commonly known as "penny bun".

He spent ten years in Italy making music for film and television. Thereafter, he returned to England. In 1994 he signed to independent record label Ninja Tune and set up his own studio, The Uterus Goldmine.

For his fourth album, Fast Asleep, Braddell worked with Team Alcohol (aka Rupert Small) to produce visual interpretations of eight tracks, which are included on the album's accompanying DVD.

He has also recorded as a member of 9 Lazy 9 (aka 8 Lazy Bastards), under the pseudonym Giacomo Braddellini; and released the EP "Float On" (1995), as a member of short-lived band Purr, along with DJ N4Eric (aka Toona) and Stuart Warren-Hill of Hexstatic. Recently he has been making films and animation and has worked on the scores to two films by Tony Grisoni; Syncing and The Pizza Miracle.

Contents

Discography

Albums

Singles

Compilations (Non Albums Tracks)

As James Bradell

As Funki Porchini

Remixes

DJ Mixes

Samples

"What Are You Looking At?", the opening track on Fast Asleep, features a vocal sample from the 1956 science fiction film Them!:

"Gentlemen, science is agreed, that if something isn't done and done quickly, man as the dominant species of Earth will be extinct within a year."

The track 123,3,4 from The Ultimately Empty Million Pounds uses samples from Ornette Coleman's album The Shape of Jazz to Come.

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