Kittenz & Thee Glitz

Felix Da Housecat

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Emperor Norton
• ASIN: B00005UEOE
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #186,163 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Harlot (Intro)

2. Walk With Me

3. Voicemail w/Miss Kittin

4. Madame Hollywood

5. Silver Screen Shower Scene

6. Control Freaq

7. What Does It Feel Like?

8. Happy Hour

9. Thee Enter View

10. Glitz Rock

11. Analog City

12. Pray For A Star

13. Sequel2Sub

14. Magic Fly

15. She Lives

16. Runaway Dreamer

Editorial Reviews

From URB Magazine

Try Felix Da New Wave Revivalist. Since pop culture seems caught in a 20-year loop, Felix is right on time, with Kitten and Thee Glitz partying like it's 1982. Not that he's alone; the '80s have been a ubiquitous presence on dance floors for a while now. Retro reworks such as Peter Black's heavily caned version of Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue" led the pack of back-in-the-day DJ tracks that made the rounds over the past year. Let's not even get into the Valley Girl fashion statements that all of the cool kids are currently making. You'd think Molly Ringwald still ruled teen bedroom walls.

But no one's gone the distance like our man Felix. Instead of just blowing the dust off of relics from his childhood closet, he's embraced the neon ethos of the era and produced an actual New Wave album that still sounds eerily contemporary. So much so that it swiped the 2001 Muzik magazine award for Album of the Year from such heavyweights as Basement Jaxx's Rooty and Outkast's Stankonia. OK, so maybe it is time to bust out the old Member's Only jacket . . .

Utilizing the bored, monotone vocals of DJ Hell signing Miss Kitten, robotic rhythms and sweeping synths, tracks such as "Harlot," "Madame Hollywood" and the ubiquitous DJ favorite "Silver Screen (Shower Scene)," Kittenz and Thee Glitz plays like the great album Berlin forgot to record after Pleasure Victim. Except "What Does It Feel Like?," which is pure Dirty Mind-era Prince. The only thing missing is the Patrick Nagel cover art. Like, totally.

Scott Sterling

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the color puple, the sound of heaven, February 2, 2002

By	Russell E. Scott (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Felix da Housecat (AKA Thee Maddkatt Courtship) shines a beacon light at the end of the contemporary music tunnel with KITTENZ & THEE GLITZ. Firmly rooted in the 80's without sounding retro, nor patronizing to "the artist formerly known as his royal purpleness", Felix delivers some major "punk funk". New wave for the millenium. Beyond fashion and trend, he takes the best electronic elements of that era and crafts the sounds into a futuristic, dance friendly extravaganza. Deftly aided on vocals by Miss Kittin from DJ Hell, Melistar, and Electricboy - all help create a kind of robotic Kraftwerk-esque jewels like "Madame Hollywood", "Happy Hour", "Silver Screen (Shower Sceen)", "Harlot", and "Glitz Rock". Equally tempered by instrumental cuts "Analog City" and "Sequel 2 Sub" it all sounds fantastic, fresh, and fun. How this disk slipped by basically unnoticed is beyond belief. This is "stand-up stuff" and ushers up some major, classic grooves. Felix, you're the man with an ear for the past and an eye on the future.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Intelligent Kitsch Album of 80's New Wave, January 27, 2002

By	"50cent-haircut" - See all my reviews

Finally, this album is released in the states! Various singles from Felix da Housecat got heavy rotation time on independent radio stations over the past year, most notably "Silver Screen (Shower Scene)" and "Madame Hollywood". The vocals of these two particular tracks were done in hilarious monotone by Miss Kitten, and along with the robotic beats and 80's synthesizer sounds, you are taken right back to the eighties - but in a good way! Other songs like "Harlot" and "Glitz Rock" are equally fun in a tongue-in-cheek way, while songs like "What Does It Feel Like" shun easy 80's parody and try to recreate a darker sonar world of the time period. This album is a relief from all the mind-sapping mediocre trance and two-step albums out there. "Kittenz & Thee Glitz" hearkens back to the 80's with a sense of both wry cynicism and earnest fascination, and in turn neither glorifies nor trivializes the era. What we listeners get is a great electronica that comes off beautifully on its own right, and it's a tribute to Felix da Housecat's musicianship that what should sound so old and hackneyed sounds so eerily fresh and new.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh funky cool, October 11, 2004

By	M. C. Peixoto "mcp333" (Seattle) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This cd is really great for any dance fan. Retro electro beats that felix lays down with ease. Some songs are on the layed back side but some really make u want to get up and dance. Highly reccomended for anyone who liked the miss kitten and the hacker cd "first album"!