Bugged Out (Mixed By Felix Da Housecat) - Various Artists

Advantages: 61 minutes of art.
Disadvantages: Listening to your other mix cds afterwards.

...2 Many DJ's have reinvented the mix CD full stop. Admirers of the dance mix need to reassess expectations of what is possible when you push play on your CD player. Over 45 tracks the boys genre-bounce seamlessly through a musical onslaught that's as detailed as it is danceable. Forget the monotonous bass line merges that you get from your annual Dave Pearce mix cd; here we have the Beatles bouncing off Dolly Parton between more familiar dance artists like Vitalic, Felix Da Housecat and Basement Jaxx. Amongst the track into track mixing includes mashups of two or more songs playing simultaneously to create brilliance. Highlights include the 2 many DJ's favorite of The Stooges' 'No Fun' mixed with Salt n' Pepper's 'Push It'; the opening mash up of the Jaxx's 'Where's Your Head At' smashes your ears into something exciting, a dance... Read review

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Advantages: a classic album
Disadvantages: not to everyones taste

...Felix Da Housecat aka Felix Stallings Jr. is one of the most influential people in dance music and certainly one of the most talented. Music always played a huge role in his life. Growing up in Detroit in the 1970s, his father who was a saxophonist instilled a love of music in Felix, especially soul and funk like Stevie Wonder. During the 80s he started to develop a big interest for house music, listening to the pioneers of house music such as Farley "Jack Master" Funk made Felix start recording his own house music tracks at the age of 14! He was also in an R'n'B band and during his two years at university in America's Deep South he made some hiphop. He hated his days at college there and so he dropped out, returning home to his beloved Detroit. He studied Audio Engineering at Columbia College, which would prove to be invaluble in his... Read review

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Advantages: great mix
Disadvantages: none

...he's went for a kind of frenzy style mix, before letting "Hear My Name" come back a for a little while just to keep you on your toes. "Three Girls Rhumba" by Klonhertz has a house beat but a funky guitar riff (sampled by Martin Solveig on "Everybody"). It has more punchy punk like vocals. Here the mix is a lot more simple and he just lets the vocals "the impossible, the impossible" run before doing a straight cut to "Watching Cars Go By" by Felix Da Housecat. "Watching Cars Go By" takes things into a deeper, darker realm. It is sheer electro by definition. It's relentless in it's pumping beat with the hi-hat, gritty guitar riffs and electronic sound effects. The vocals are robotic perfect to take us into a more sinister dark side of New York. "Don't Go" by Yazoo has it's synths blended in over the top, before "Watching Cars Go By" fades... Read review

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