Rocketmann!

From URB Magazine
I’ve wanted to go off about Felix da Housecat for awhile now. I was perusing the story that ran in this very magazine last March, where we proclaimed his then-just released-in-America album Kittenz and thee Glitz a masterpiece. It’s so obvious — he should’ve been on the cover. The resonance of what he’s done in the past 12 months is rather miraculous. From the now-dreaded "electro-clash" to the fact that he got to remix Madonna’s James Bond theme, so much of what 2002 will be remembered by can be directly attributed to our man.

Basically, Felix has been producing this sort of New Romantic industrial techno since the late ’80s, and it’s just now getting out. So masterworks like these two monuments to his productivity over the past 10 years are just the beginning. Metropolis Present Day ? Thee Album! is the sound of an acid-house Prince during the Purple One’s Controversy era — just check the minimal techno-funk of "Somekinda Special." "Marine Mood" sounds like a long-lost Duran Duran instrumental "night" version and "B4 Wuz Then" is pure sci-fi fantasy. And this was all recorded in 1995, thank you very much.

But it’s the Rocketmann project that really sets it off. All slowed-down space-age love songs, this album is definitely for the heads. Echoes of Moodymann permeate "Life-Form," while "Stardust" is lunar hip-hop. I bet there’s a big story or movie treatment that goes with this, and it would probably play like an update on the flick Liquid Sky. Brilliant.

Scott Sterling

Product Description
A Felix Da Housecat production from The Radikal Fear vaults 1995. Featuring previously unreleased version of 'Red House' w/ John Lee Hooker and Booker T. First time on CD! Pias. 2002.

Tracks:

Lift Off!-Intro / Do Read - Over?
Life Form
Galactikka 1071
Time Warped Vs 2 The Outer Limits
Stardust
Nitebeams
Mission Vinitara
Visions Of Utopia
Driftin On A Comet
Rocketmann
Stars We Saved
Cyber Talk
Black Hole

Album Description

A Felix Da Housecat production from The Radikal Fear vaults 1995. Featuring previously unreleased version of 'Red House' w/ John Lee Hooker and Booker T. First time on CD! Pias. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

my review.......2003-08-04

I personally love this album, don't listen to these other clowns. Listen first before you decide. Peace Out

boring.......2002-10-05

seems like the same track all cd. don't even give it a try.

This album is awful.......2002-10-03

This is nothing like Glitz or Excursions. It sounds like something that I could have made at home with my computer. It is definitely not house music, and is borderline techno. It can't even be chillout because some of it is just so discordant. Save your money for his next lp.