Funki Porcini
James Braddell is an English musician and film maker, who uses the stage name of Funki Porcini. "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 (a.k.a. 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 (a.k.a. 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 (a.k.a. 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". Samples. "What Are You Looking At?", the opening track on "Fast Asleep", features a vocal sample from the 1956 science fiction film  Them!: The track 123,3,4 from "The Ultimately Empty Million Pounds" uses samples from Ornette Coleman's album "The Shape of Jazz to Come". "Let's See What Carmen Can Do" features a sample of Bob Barker from the TV show, "The Price Is Right", commenting while spinning the Big Wheel – which beeps as the numbers pass by. The track "Long Road" features a sample of the movie "Where Danger Lives", wherein the protagonist, played by Robert Mitchum, is saying to the girl with whom he is on the run "it's a long road, there's no turning back". Funki