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Who is Felix da Housecat
In a world obsessed with labeling an ever-evolving genre, Felix da Housecat is dedicated to making the people dance. He is one of those rare, charisma-oozing characters, whose musical and mental eccentricity come from a genuine place. Felix is never afraid to take a risk to reach new ground.
It’s this blend of qualities that has kept him in such high reverence in the electronic field for two decades now, and which has ensured that his music has been a consistently captivating force. An ever-moving target, his various incarnations have seen him morph from resolute acid and techno warrior to avant-garde nu-skool electro-disco pioneer to the man who gave one of the world’s most famous rappers a new lease of house-infused life long before major labels were putting every urban artist on their books over anemic 4/4 beats.
“My dad played sax and he got me onto clarinet”, he recalls of his beginnings in making music. “So it was more of a discipline thing. It was never like I was this passionate kid who wanted to be a superstar DJ, or a rock ’n roll star. I was quite shy in school.”
First seduced by electronic music when house music first emerged in his native Chicago in 1984, the young Felix soon found himself getting caught up in a musical paradigm shift that fostered a lifelong obsession and helped to bring him into his shell. “It was like a culture movement. So everything I heard on the radio – from Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk to Mike ‘Hitman’ Wilson – that was the sound I was exposed to. Coming from a family of music, I was able to replay and recreate that stuff.”
But it was too late for classical training to keep a hold on this burgeoning young talent and dance music aficionado. Da Housecat took over.
Felix began re-releasing music back in 1993. He landed, as a cat does, on his feet with some of his earliest productions picked up by seminal progressive and techno imprints Guerilla and Bush. “When the people started getting into my sound, that’s when I started taking it serious”, he explains. Felix grew to become one of techno’s most sought-after names, with a sound influenced heavily by collaborator, mentor and acid house inventor DJ Pierre’s wild-pitch style and drawing as much on the raucous bite of acid as it did on the intensity of techno.
He was catapulted from the overground into the wider dance music consciousness at the start of the millennium when he reinvented himself as a purveyor of future retro, high-camp grooves with his 80’s-inspired album ‘Kittenz (And Thee Glitz)’. Club- and crossover hit ‘Silver Screen Shower Scene’ particularly, with its kitsch Miss Kittin vocals and raucous sound, remains a stone-cold classic to this day.
But he continued unfazed throughout the noughties to bring the world more of the magical music that lives inside his head. Albums ‘Virgo Blaktro & The Movie Disco’ and ‘He Was King’ received critical acclaim before he made history and released his next LP, ‘Son Of Analog’.
Collaborating with the man then known as P. Diddy on the groundbreaking ‘Jack U’ was just another move that was way ahead of its time. But despite all this success, an increasingly wild lifestyle combined with the pressures of unrequited hyperbole forced Felix to hit the reset button a few years back.
But now Felix is back in a big way, brimming with hunger and passion for music once again, and some incredibly hot new material. Felix Da Housecat reclaims his position amongst the upper echelons of dance music.
