Jun 12, 2020

RhoDeo 2023 Grooves

Hello, as regular visitors you know what to expect....some more Fila Brazillia but not their own work but their musical vision expressed under other monikers but still from Hull, today the man who can be considered the driving force behind Hull's music scene, Steve Cobby he's created so many musical alter ego's alone and with others aswell as labels, the man has been extremely industrious, respect....


Today's Artists is are of Steve Cobby's 'edgy' collaboration with David 'Porky' Brennand, founder of Pork Recordings.........N Joy

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Steve Cobby is a British producer musician, composer, and DJ, based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. He is best known for being part of Fila Brazillia.

After disbanding his first commercially released band Ashley & Jackson on Big Life records, he co-founded Fila Brazillia with David McSherry in 1990. Together they released 10 critically acclaimed LPs and produced over 70 remixes for artists as diverse as Radiohead, Busta Rhymes, Black Uhuru, Simple Minds, James, A Certain Ratio and Moloko.

He formed Pork Recordings with David Brennand in 1990 then 23 Records in 1999 with Sim Lister and David McSherry and finally Steel Tiger Records in 2006 with Lister. More of an umbrella for his various projects than a label per se. His other writing and production collaborations include Heights of Abraham; J*S*T*A*R*S and The Cutler.

He has released three solo albums as The Solid Doctor : How About Some Ether and Beats Means Highs. A third, entitled Saudade was released on his own imprint Déclassé in March 2014.

Numerous remixes, from Harold Budd and Theoretics to Jon Kennedy and Yesking have been undertaken in a solo capacity.

Fabric nightclub has played host to many Cobby DJ sets and this was rewarded with an appearance on Fabric 18 alongside fellow Hull alumni Bobby Beige and Bliss.

He co-produced Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli's debut solo album, The Twilight Singers in 2000 and co-wrote and produced Three White Roses and a Budd EP with Bill Nelson and avant garde American composer Harold Budd. Cobby has worked with Darren Emerson on his solo album, in an engineering and writing capacity.

His collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder is under the guise of Hey Rube. Adam Regan from Different Drummer Records and Leftfoot promotions in Birmingham is also a regular collaborator.

Cobby has DJ'd in many places around the world including Croatia, Sydney, San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. He has performed live in Europe, Japan and the United States

Work
Production
Production, co-production and remix projects include Radiohead; Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers.

Film and advertising
As Fila Brazillia (with David McSherry) his music has been used in films, including Riding Giants directed by Stacy Peralta - and adverts, including for Nokia. As J*S*T*A*R*S (with Sim Lister) his music has been used for adverts including for Fiat and The John Lewis Partnership.

In 2013, Cobby provided the soundtrack for the Hull 'UK City of Culture 2017' bid film - This City Belongs to Everyone, produced by Nova Studios. On 20 November that year, Kingston upon Hull, was announced as the winning entry.

Solo
Cobby releases mainly work under the pseudonyms The Solid Doctor and J J Fuchs. In March 2014, Cobby released his first solo album for 17 years entitled Saudade on his own imprint Déclassé. He then released under his name Revolutions soundtrack (2015), Everliving (2015), Hemidemisemiquaver (2017), and Sweet Jesus (2019). Sweet Jesus is released digitally on may the 17h, without any marketing or promotion whatsoever, as a Bandcamp exclusive.

Collaborations
with David Brennand a.k.a. Porky to form The Cutler; singles released during 2007 and 2008 included "Stiletto", "Pickaxe", and "Cinquedea". Debut album Cutler was released in July 2008 and the Black Flag EP in 2009. The second album release (September 2012) was The Best Things in Life Aren't Things with vocalists Andrew Taylor and Russell Morgan. The most recent release (10 June 2013) from The Cutler is their third album Everything Is Touching Everything Else, with vocalists Isobel Helen, Andrew Taylor, Archie and Sheffield's alt-folk outfit Little Glitches; all on Steel Tiger Records.
with Stephen Mallinder, a co-founder of Cabaret Voltaire, to form Hey, Rube!; first album release Can You Hear me Mutha? (October 2012, Steel Tiger Records)
with DJ Adam Regan, of the Different Drummer Soundsystem and Leftfoot, to form Chieftain; debut release The War Bonnet EP (2012, Steel Tiger Records)
with Sim Lister to form J*S*T*A*R*S; released Put Me on a Planet on Steel Tiger Records in 2006.
with Sim Lister and Jake Harries to form The Heights of Abraham; most recent release Two Thousand and Six on Twentythree Records in 2006.
with classically trained guitarist Rich Arthurs of Orgatronics to form 'Peacecorps'; released Bushfarmer on Steel Tiger Records in 2007.
with Richard H. Kirk to form Citrus.
with Djinji Brown to form NorthEastSoundSystem.
with David McSherry to form Fila Brazillia; most recent releases the album Retrospective on Twentythree Records in 2006 and Neanderthal in 2007, also on Twentythree Records.

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Adrenochrome is a natural compound found in the adrenal glands, that spikes at moments of fear or terror. Adrenochrome does have one medical use, as a form of it can be employed to staunch vascular bleeding. It’s not even hard to get, as it’s not illegal, and you can buy it in 25 or 250 mg doses to use in research. So is adrenochrome some kind of organic substitute for mescaline (Aldous Huxley)? If it is, drug users haven’t gotten mega-high from it. One anonymous user on the drug education site Erowid chronicled his experimentation with it, describing the effect as “very light and really uninteresting” and “not fun nor psychedelic in any way.” Another user said it gave them headaches for a week. Does any of this sound like a compound that wealthy elites would literally murder and eat children to obtain? A chemical that can easily be bought, does nothing psychoactive whatsoever, and might actually kill you? The compound has no footprint among drug users, and the rumored horrors perpetrated to obtain it are just that – rumors.
It seems far more likely that adrenochrome hysteria is based entirely on things people have heard, repeated without question, and never seen any proof of. In that, it’s a perfect fit for #QAnon.

At hand here are 3 great tracks on this unique (and rare) Richard H. Kirk and Steve Cobby coproduction as Citrus.

Deep Six's We're Going Deep is as underground as deep house gets. and its spectacular with its super punchy snare hit and simple deep layers. And of course the awesome guided hypnosis vocal....Its perfect. Go for the Piano Mix.. Deep Six are Aldo Hernandez, Ben Stiver, Carlos Santos, Steve Cobby. Deeptrance is wicked early deep house from the Murk stable, With the vocal sample "For the deeper you go, the better you feel. The better you feel, the deeper you go. Let Go!"


 Citrus - Adrenachrome + Deep Six  (flac   404mb)

01 Adrenachrome 16:00
02 Decoder 9:06
03 Narcosynthesis 8:00

DeepSix

01 We're Going Deep (Vocal) 5:43
02 We're Going Deep (Instrumental) 5:43
03 We're Going Deep (W/ Piano) 5:43

01 Deeptrance Dance 7:44
02 Deep Dub 7:11
03 Deep Under Cover 5:20


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The Cutler is an electronica collaboration from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. Formed by Steve Cobby, formerly half of Fila Brazillia, and David 'Porky' Brennand, founder of Pork Recordings, they play electronica and Dub music. The Cutler is Steve Cobby and Porky , Cobby is a musician, composer, producer, and occasional DJ, he is also fifty percent of 'Fila Brazillia' (with David McSherry), fifty percent of 'Hey, Rube!' (with Stephen Mallinder), fifty percent of 'J*S*T*A*R*S' (with Sim Lister), one third of 'Heights of Abraham' (with Sim Lister and Jake Harries), and all of 'The Solid Doctor'. Porky is resident DJ at 'The Welly' in Hull with 'StopMakingSense' every Saturday night and mastermind of the revered 'Pork Recordings', a fiercely independent label specialising in 'electronica', and hugely important in the 'Downtempo' arena. Their self-titled debut album gained great praise from BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank stating that it was "Beautiful! Lovin' the Cutler. Ace to hear some proper downtempo music being made again". Mixmag, Straight No Chaser, NME and the Face are but a handful of publications that have featured and praised their music.

Their debut release came in 2007 – on the electronica label Steel Tiger Records (based in Hull/Sheffield and established by Cobby with Sim Lister in 2006) – with the single, Stiletto. A Cutler is a person who makes, sells, or repairs knives and other cutting instruments, no surprise then where all track titles stem from.



  The Cutler - I  (flac   333mb)

01 Scimitar 3:56
02 Stiletto 3:43
03 Cinquedea 5:11
04 Gladius 4:19
05 Tyrfing 4:58
06 Cleaver 4:38
07 Pickaxe 5:51
08 Claymore 3:41
09 Hacksaw 7:23
10 Épéé 8:58
11 Chandrahas 5:03
12 Unagisaki Hocho 4:56

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The Best Things in Life Aren't Things features two guest vocalists - Russell Morgan (Revolution) and Andrew Taylor (Pyramid of Power). Perhaps best known for his ability to write a catchy tune and perform it in a deft and touching style Andrew Taylor is also a composer of electro, ambient, funk, psych-folk some prog-meanderings and almost any other style you may care to think of. His first instrument was made from a cereal box, a kitchen roll-tube and some elastic bands; it is this home-made ethic that permeates much of his work, though he seems to nurture an ability to make the lo-fi sound wide, expansive and well a bit hi-fi! Extraordinary folk blues guitarist and songwriter Russell Morgan lives and writes in Cheshire, UK. Russell's sound is defined by his honey soaked growl, quirky writing style and a unique guitar approach. His voice and sound is a marriage of traditional acoustic folk, alternative rock and blues; close listening reveals echoes of John Martyn and Richie Havens.



The Cutler-  The Best Things In Life Aren't Things (flac   320mb)

01 Samizdat $;56
02 Pyramid Of Power 5:26
03 Nightbirds 4:47
04 Revolution 5:15
05 P-A-Y-R 5:29
06 Weltschmerz 5:04
07 Teach Yourself Braille 4:36
08 200 Pharaohs - 6 Billion Slaves 9:03
09 That's What I Feel 4:33
10 Sync Estate 3:17
11 Burn The Bankers 3:41
12 Black Sheep 7:15

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On 11 June 2013, The Cutler were a front-page feature article on Bandcamp; the article's author is Andrew Jervis, the head curator at Bandcamp – he wrote, "The mojo is indeed back. Everything is Touching Everything Else is a varied album of songs and instrumentals loosely shepherded by Cobby and Porky, into a collection that is on par with the cream of the albums released on Pork Recordings. "Happenstance and spontaneity seem to guide us,” explains Cobby. Romulus and Remus sounds like Peaking Lights or Wild Belle rope-dope'd by a dose of gritty bottom end. Quite Rightly unfolds at a more leisurely place with pretty harps and floaty Hammond organ, while Namaste is a proper dubby bass bin smasher." The vocal harmonies of Archie Heslewood and Little Glitches warm up proceedings on Roll Those Laughing Bones and OFGB respectively."



The Cutler- Everything Is Touching Everything Else (flac   408mb)

01 Quantum Entanglement 3:12
02 Romulus and Rhemlus (feat. Isobel Helen) 6:53
03 Tell Me Why 5:09
04 OFGB (feat. Little Glitches) 6:16
05 Quite Rightly 5:08
06 Roll Those Laughing Bones 9:11
07 Moscow Dynamite 3:29
08 Clam Bake 6:32
09 Didn't Have a Clue 4:39
10 Crazy Legs Crane 6:20
11 Namaste 4:13
12 Maltese Cross 2:37

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Original tracks by The Cutler, from the LP Everything Is Touching Everything Else except *from the untitled 4th LP and **from The Best Things In Life Aren't Things.



The Cutler - Everyone Is Remixing Everything Else (flac   353mb)

01 Clam Bake (Darren Emerson Mix) 8:34
02 Romulus & Remus (Richard Dorfmeister Mix) 6:16
03 Moscow Dynamite (Gavin Hardkiss Mix) 5:37
04 Clamour (Mark Bryden Mix)* 5:43
05 Romulus & Remus (Mr Beasley Mix) 3:52
06 OFGB (Pete Lazonby Mix) 7:35
07 Tell Me Why (Tranquility Bass Mix) 5:53
08 Moscow Dynamite (Mark Rae Mix) 4:22
09 Revolution (Unforscene Mix) 5:43
10 Romulus & Remus (Richard Dorfmeister Mix) 66:16
11 Quantum Entanglement (Robin Guthrie Mix) 3:28

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2 comments:

Richard43 said...

I've collected a lot of Pork but was not familiar with any of these. Thank you.

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