Here's another disc from my recent surge to delve into more Electronic Music, i bought his other mix disc called Excursions a while back, nice, but i need to listen to it more, this was nicer, more vocal than i thought it was going to be, sounds very Eighties in a way, but some great musical ideas going on, i'm certainly enjoying uncovering strange musical rocks to see what's underneath, i like delving into a new genre, and Felix Da Housecat is off the beaten track for me.
Felix Da Housecat [real name Felix Stallings Jr], is an American DJ and recording artist, he's now 40 years old, he made this recording quite recently in 2009, the front cover is actually really clever and inventive, it seems to mimic some sort of screen, either computer or TV, probably computer when you look at the lettering in the bottom corner, but i like it, somewhat blurred, and a hand held light source, nice reflections on the glasses, i really like the close up mug shot, caught in mid something, a startled look as if shot on the wing, nice idea.
Well this was only the first time i listened to this disc, so it's not a definitive judgement, each track seems to have a really creative intro, and the whole lot is well recorded, lovely deep bass, the best track was track 9 'Elvi$', yes Elvis with a dollar sign at the end, the opening roulades sound like coming from an accordion, but are no doubt electronic, they're monotonous, but they do the job in driving the music, a fatter nastier beat comes in [0:59+], and the thing nicely builds up, and an even stronger bass comes in [1:13+], all these layers add up to great satisfaction, in some ways it's a stop / start thing, some of the instrumentation just comes to end [2:42+], which is musically satisfying, only to then start up again a minute later, like waves and cycles, but it's all well done, and on this track very addictive, one of the more instrumental tracks, i need to give the disc another listen to really get into it.
Here's Felix Da Housecat performing Elvi$ on YouTube.
