在一个痴迷于给不断发展的流派贴上标签的世界里，Felix da Housecat致力于让人们跳舞。他是那种罕见的、充满魅力的人物之一，他的音乐和精神上的怪癖来自于一个真实的地方。他从不害怕冒险开拓新领域。二十年来，正是这种品质的融合让他在电子领域备受尊敬，也确保了他的音乐一直是一股迷人的力量。他是一个不断变化的目标，他的各种化身见证了他从坚定的酸和技术战士到前卫的新学校电子迪斯科先锋，再到给世界上最著名的说唱歌手之一带来了充满house风格的新生命，早在各大唱片公司把每个城市艺术家都放在他们贫瘠的4/4节拍上之前。“我爸爸吹萨克斯管，他让我学单簧管，”他回忆起自己最初的音乐创作，“所以这更像是一件自律的事情。我从来都不是一个充满激情的孩子，想成为一名…巨星。或者是超级明星DJ，或者是摇滚明星。我在学校很害羞。”1984年，当豪斯音乐在他的家乡芝加哥首次出现时，年轻的菲利克斯首先被电子音乐所吸引，很快发现自己陷入了一种音乐范式的转变，这种转变培养了他一生的痴迷，并帮助他进入了自己的壳。 “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. He 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 ‘80s- 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.He survived unwittingly spearheading an entire new genre with that album - “I just hate the word electroclash and don't want to be affiliated with it”, he says today - but 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, as a free Mixmag covermount CD. Collaborating with the man then known as P. Diddy in the interim (2006) 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 (including a fierce mezcal habit) combined with the pressures of unrequited hyperbole forced Felix to hit the reset button a few years back. “I became sober and got in touch with my spirit, I saw everything clear. Some promoters book me because they think they are getting the Mezcalateer. Some are afraid of the Mezcalateer. Some find I'm sober and will try to test me by offering me shots but I fight them off. I am Thee Former Mezcalateer. Retired. I found myself literally dancing with the devil. No joke. The four years off was due to personal life, spirit, booze, you name it. I had to find my way back. I survived and I went through my 9 lives over 10 times."The devil’s loss is the world’s gain: Felix is back in a big way, brimming with hunger and passion for music once again, and some incredibly hot new material. Returning with a slew of new material in 2013 via his label No Shame/Rude Photo, his rampant electro/disco concoctions will pave the way for a hotly anticipated new album later in the year. On top of all this fresh new music, a huge remix for Katy B is on the way, plus a global tour, a live BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix and his own signature headphones. This is the year that Felix Da Housecat reclaims his position amongst the upper echelons of dance music.
