1995’s Maim That Tune was the second album from Fila Brazillia, and featured nine tracks of deep, introspective down-tempo electronica, spacey, synthetic dub-funk, pleasantly drifting ambient, and genre-bending alt-breaks. Album opener “Dave Yang And Steve Yin De-Swish T’Swish” is a good example of FB’s hybrid sound, recalling jazz, funk, electronica, house and more while not really being any of those genres. 

“Harmonicas Are Shite” and “A Zed and Two L”’s are pristinely produced, rhythmically precise electronica full of clever programming, “At Home In Space” is based around an artful blend of synths, (sampled? synthetic? live?) flute and strings that gradually unfurl into a ten-minute widescreen future beatology epic, while ‘Slacker” is a streamlined, shimmering interplanetary house jam. The broad range of styles, tempos and moods are all expertly accomplished, putting Maim That Tune head and shoulders above many of Fila’s ‘chill out’ contemporaries.