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Twentythree Records - is home to Fila Brazillia, Heights of Abraham, Mandrillus Sphynx and The Solid Doctor.
The label was founded in 1999 by Steve Cobby and David McSherry of Fila Brazillia along with Sim Lister of Heights of Abraham. From the early 90s to 1999 both Fila and Heights had been part of the distinctive Hull-based label Pork Recordings ("Pork material is always quirky and surprising, quite brilliant" DJ Magazine 1994) - before transferring their catalogues to Twentythree Records.
In 2006 Cobby and Lister went on to establish Steel Tiger Records; home to J*S*T*A*R*S and The Cutler. Rob da Bank (BBC Radio 1) said "Beautiful! Lovin' The Cutler. Ace to hear some proper downtempo music being made again"
You can listen to (and buy) music from Twentythree Records on official.fm. Official.fm provides tools and services for music artists, labels, and media to share, promote, and distribute music.
Bandcamp
You can now download Fila Brazillia, The Solid Doctor, and the Twentythree Records sampler 'Twentythree Twelves' from Bandcamp. You can pay as much as you wish for an album as long as it is a minimum of 5 British pounds, most individual tracks have a 'base' price of 50 pence.
Fila Brazillia, Pork's picks
Porky of Pork Recordings has begun creating a series of Fila Brazillia mixes on Mixcloud.
Fila Brazillia
"For 10 years, Cobby and fellow Fila Dave McSherry have been creating diverse, adventurous sounds. Spacious, chilled and always highly musical, their six albums for Pork Records put the tiny Hull, U.K., label on the map by surprising and delighting heads and hearts around the globe. And they did this without interviews, press photos or advertising -- no small feat in the pre-international 'net-work days." - Denise Benson 2001
Heights of Abraham
""You should never pander to expectations" insists Steve. "'Top of The Pops' IS International cabaret and everything else is folk music. Heights are like heretics, barking at the mainstream and telling them how shit they are!" - Melody Maker 1995
Mandrillus Sphynx
Mandrillus Sphynx is soon to be deleted from the 23 catalogue. You can now download 'Ban Music' (720kbps - 322mb) for free from bandcamp.com
The Solid Doctor
"And so the funky break of the trip hop groove enters the surgery of another qualified practitioner. An anaesthetic of Nepalese buckshot is administered by drip, a liquid balm of snowdrop strings and the entire works of Nino Rota (Fellini's favourite composer) are gently daubed on and small swabs of obscure dialogue and drifting radio wave samples make a patchwork poultice." - Mixmag 1995
Twentythree Records at Kudos
Music from Twentythree Records is distributed physically and digitally world-wide by Kudos Records Ltd. Digital versions are available via iTunes, Emusic, Napster and a host of independent download stores, and over mobile.
You can go to the Twentythree Records page on Kudos to buy our CDs Thank you.
