Felix da Housecat

Felix da Housecat - half feline, half divine. With his slinky sonic beats that have you gliding across the dance floor, it's hard to think of a more important contributor to house music today. His genre spans resolute house and acid through to techno. He's always mixing it up on the decks and at his shows. How can you ever know what to expect? This was once again a grooving night, even at the relatively small venue he played. With lasers bouncing off the walls and people bouncing off each other. He's best known for his remixes of Madonna, Britney and other popular artists of the ilk – but don't let that fool you. This guy is anything but populist. Everything he played sounded as fresh as it ever has. He's still friends with P Diddy – his music gets played all over the world – and this gig went crazy for da Housecat. His transitions are flawless, even when mixing between genres, dropping from one to the other. Absolute highlight had to be when he held one record back for a couple of beats, before really letting it drop, feeling the crowd surge with energy around us all. Felix means lucky in Latin – and Felix sure is a one of a kind lucky guy.

Felix da Housecat is an icon in the dance scene; however, tonight's show was a snoozer. He did not play any of his well known hits; instead, played remixes of 60s and 70s hits like White Rabbit and This is House Music (which went on for over 10 minutes). I love this artist and he has some great albums; I don't understand why he did not tap into his great wealth of songs. Plus, the venue Monarch sucked, it was like a boiler room and I found myself constantly drinking water and sweating uncontrollably. Monarch opened at 10:00 but Felix did not come on stage until after 1:00 AM. However, a thumbs up to Lisbon Sisters the 2nd set of DJs put on an awesome show which made the night worth attending. It would have been much better if the eliminated the first DJ (who was boring) and have Felix come on at 12:00 PM. Maybe I would have not been so tired and forced to leave at 2:15 PM due to burn-out.