Matteo Rossi UNIVERSITA' DEGLI SUDI DI BOLOGNA FACOLTA' DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA DAMS - DISCIPLINE DELLE ARTI, DELLA MUSICA E DELLO SPETTACOLO QUICKER THAN A RAY OF LIGHT Screen visuals e multimedialità nelle rappresentazioni live di Madonna Tesi di Laurea in TECNOLOGIE MULTIMEDIALI Editing: Matteo Rossi "Ray Of Light" Performed by Madonna. Written by Madonna, William Orbit, Clive Muldoon, Dave Curtis, Christine Leach. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.

• published: 15 Mar 2010
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Firethorn Productions !CON!C Proudly presenting for the first time in Jersey, Direct from Chicago, USA FELIX DA HOUSECAT Rude Photo | X-Mix Productions | Chicago The Royal Yacht Saturday 31st March 2012 Following on from our hugely successful !CON!C event with Boy George, we are back once again to proudly present to you another one of the true pioneers of House Music, a man who has been around since the inception of Dance Music and a DJ that can only be described as a real Godfather of House. In addition to our very Special Guest DJ, we are also being joined by some of Jersey’s finest resident DJs, playing everything from the best House Music through to Funk, Soul & Hip Hop. ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ Room 1 – Celestial Hall HOUSE FELIX-DA-HOUSECAT CRAIG ALDER PETE DE MOMME KEITH ROBINSON ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ Room 2 – Lazy Jack FUNK, SOUL & HIP HOP CLASSICS ANDY WARD Boogie Down Sounds DJ BIRD The Drift PAUL P MFSB DOORS OPEN 9PM ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ GUEST DJ BIOG FELIX-DA-HOUSECAT Two-time Grammy Award Nominee FELIX DA HOUSECAT brought electro to the masses with his groundbreaking album 'Kittenz & Thee Glitz' which included the UK top 40 pop chart crossover hit 'Silver Screen (Shower Scene)'. From his collaborations with P. Diddy, James Murphy (LCD Soundsytem), and Miss Kittin, to his remixes for Madonna, Marylin Manson, and Nina Simone, Felix continues to shape the sound of music today. Look for his new remixes of Passion Pit, Uffie, and Mike Snow, and his new singles out on Rude Photo, Pryda Friends, and Spinnin. His new artist album 'Son of Analog' is out now on Mixmag and 'All Gone Ibiza '11 mixed by Pete Tong and Felix Da Housecat' mixed compilation is out now on Defected. Felix Da Housecat feat. Will.I.Am 'Burn The Disco' is out soon on Ultra. In Chicago during the early '80s, the House music revolution grabbed Felix’s attention. For Felix, it centered around Chicago's 102.7 and the pioneering Hot Mix DJs. "I remember listening to Farley ‘Jack Master’ Funk, Mike ‘Hitman’ Wilson, Micky ‘Mixin'’ Oliver, and Kenny ‘Jamming’ Jason," Felix says rattling off the city's House pioneers. By 14 he too was recording house music on his four-track. A school friend introduced him to DJ Pierre who he collaborated with on their classic house track "Phantasy Girl". But Felix's tastes weren't limited to a single genre. His senior year he played in Uncut, a band with an R&B-like; vibe. After graduation he enrolled at Alabama State and began making hip-hop. After two years in the Deep South (an experience he compares to “prison") he flunked out. In 1991, Felix moved into his parents' basement, studied audio engineering at Columbia College and worked at Eduardo's pizzeria. "It was rough," he says. "I hated those ovens and I kept thinking something's got to give." What finally gave was Pierre’s once-in-a-lifetime offer. "Once I got to London and saw all those punk rockers," Felix says, "I thought `this is where it's going to happen.'" Armed with a box of DATs, Felix made the rounds. "It was crazy," he says, "I'd walk into a label cold, play a track, and they'd sign it!" He quickly sold "What's Love About" to Freetown Inc and "Thee Dawn" to William Orbit's Guerilla label and returned to the states with more money then he'd ever seen. In 1992 "Thee Dawn" became a European smash and Felix blew-up overseas. "I was producing a track a week for different labels," he says. The next year, the success of "Thee Underground Made Me Do It," and "In Thee Dark We Live," helped further cement his fame. The latter track, released under Aphrohead, was just one of Felix's many production aliases which would come to include Wonderboy, Rocketmann, Outerrealm, Thee Glitz and Thee Maddkatt Courtship. Felix scored an album deal with Deep Distraxion in 1993 and dropped By Dawns Early Lite, one of the first full-length dance music artist albums ever. Unlike other dance artists, Felix didn't start DJing until midway through his career. "My first DJ gig was in London in 1994 and it was horrible," he says laughing. "I was train-wrecking all over the place." (Now, of course, with DJ of the year honors from Spin and Urb it's a different story.) In 1995 Felix started Radikal Fear records with European distributor Play it Again Sam. Between 1995 – 96, he made four full-length records Alone In The Dark, Metropolis Present Day? Thee Album, Thee Underground Made Me Do It and Rocketman. In 1997, Felix released the import-only I Know Electrikboy by Thee Maddkat Courtship, an album that despite its limited release, earned Felix reams of fawning press. That same year he played Switzerland and met Miss Kittin and Dave the Hustler. "We got along grea

• published: 03 Mar 2012
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