A Bugged Out Mix by Felix Da Housecat

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Released 8^th September 2003

Felix Stallings aka Felix Da Housecat, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The childhood friend of house legend DJ Pierre, Stallings' youth was spent experimenting with electronic musical equipment. He taught himself keyboards by the age of 14, and a year later stepped into a studio for the first time.

Numerous releases followed on all the major imprints: Strictly Rhythm, Guerilla, Nervous, D-Jax Up, Chicago Underground and Freetown. He also set up his own Radikal Fear Records imprint, which has released classic cuts by the likes of DJ Sneak, Armando, and Mike Dunn, and provided remixes for mainstream artists such as Diana Ross and Kylie Minogue.

This time he delivers a mix album for the Bugged Out boys and girls. Felix opens with the jacked house smooth grooves of Metro Arena's "Caught Up" and the funky "Yalopa" by Julian Jabre. His old pal Frankie Knuckles gets his quaint and sometimes camp tech-house monster that is "It's A Cold World" included too. The Droys Remix of Lady Tron's "Seventeen" is a slice of electro punk narrative, commenting on the arrogance of today's modelling circles.

Randomly the techno sounds of Charles Manier's "Uncompromised Awareness" and Justus Kohncke's "Was 1st Musik" pound round. NB "Coke, Sex & Drugs" by Elecktronica if only for it's wicked title. The sleazy "Bucci Bag" by Andrea Doria brings it down a peg, followed by Da Housecat's own fully loaded sexy synths on "Control Freak" making an appearance before the anthem 'Disco To Disco' by Whirlpool Productions.

CD2 cunningly entitled "Bugged In" starts with something so unique, but at the same time so familiar - George Moroder's "Night Drive" is heavy on the electric guitar riffs while a sexy slightly tribal beat kicks in... a trip back to the tight trouser’d 70s disco clubs for "Glad To Know You" by Chaz Jankel!

Not an artist famous for her dance collaborations but Felix delivers an electro tinged edit of Yoko Ono’s "Walking On Thin Ice" in the pure maiden way she so admirably portraits. Another possibly eccentric link is Depeche Mode’s "Personal Jesus" thing, before bringing it all back to the all time classic by Ten City, "Devotion" sung in a Byron Stingley stylee.

The double compilation gives Da Housecat the room in which he needs to prowl through his wide and knowledgeable collection of superb tracks doing for him and the dance floors he rocks like he has for many years previously… Take it from a man that knows, and looks fucking cool!