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Funki Porcini

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Funki Porcini is artist and DJ James Braddell, whose swirling mixtures of downtempo breaks, smooth ambience, and disjointed drum'n'bass helped put the <a href="spotify:artist:5wnhqlZzXIq8aO9awQO2ND">Coldcut</a>-owned, South London-based <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ninja+Tune%22">Ninja Tune</a> label on the map. The first single from his 1995 <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ninja%22">Ninja</a> debut Hed Phone Sex, "Long Road" (with a B-side, "Poseathon," littered with <a href="spotify:artist:6JooToEGjbAab8XNmXqkF8">Bongwater</a> samples), was featured on a number of compilations cashing in on the fashionability of "trip-hop," but Porcini's brand of laid-back, atmospheric breakbeat is less gimmicky than that connection suggests. His follow-up to Hed Phone Sex, Love, Pussycats, and Carwrecks, is filled with jittery, jazz-laden drum'n'bass with a good dose of usually quite twisted humor. Braddell played North America with the <a href="spotify:artist:5wnhqlZzXIq8aO9awQO2ND">Coldcut</a> conglomerate <a href="spotify:artist:4NZM5xKuDpGc4vEHDwGO1Q">DJ Food</a> as part of the 1996 Unexploded Bomb tour, and has grown increasingly in-demand as a remixer, disorganizing tracks by everyone from <a href="spotify:artist:4Q6WblRwyO4DHlUIHexBzn">Journeyman</a> to <a href="spotify:artist:6dFY9Mfn7uV9fOFW7kCqjY">the Mike Flowers Pops</a>. His third album in total, Ultimately Empty Million Pounds, launched in 1999 and was soon followed by an EP, Zombie. Fans waited several years for more material from Braddell, though Fast Asleep finally appeared (after a lengthy delay) in late 2002. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi

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