Felix just released his first full length titled, “Popular Music” on Steve Aoki’s label Dim Mak. This is the title track from that album and has a killer chorus over a pounding house beat.
Felix Cartal – Popular Music Intro
Felix Cartal Bio:
Felix began his quest to achieve expertise in production in a campus studio in Vancouver while in high school, where he first observed the method of producing and mixing. By fifteen, not only was he learning from these engineers but he also began actively producing his own music. Cartal pulled from his vast, diverse library of influence ranging from his parents taste in the classics (The Beatles, Supertramp, Steely Dan, Elton John), his teenage love for Southern California punk rock (NOFX, Lagwagon), his soon after acquired taste for harder punk styles (The Blood Brothers, Red Light Sting, Lightening Bolt) and eventually dance artists such as James Holden and Alter Ego. However, it was the experimental blend of rock and electronica of Radiohead’s Kid A that marked a pivotal transformation of Taelor Deitcher to Felix Cartal, when he realized “I can pull my punk rock upbringings and push this harder edge in a club into music I wanted to make for the dancefloor.” The dark aesthetics of Kid A, the emphasis of melody in James Holden of Border Community combined with the exposure of tracks like Daft Punk’s “Rollin’ & Scratchin’” pounding heavily from full systems in clubs that truly inspired Felix to translate bass lines into developing a fresh approach to dance floor electronica.