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Disc-jockey and mixer Felix Da Housecat (Felix Stallings) trained with Chicago house pioneer DJ Pierre. He was only 15 when he helped cut
Phantasy Girl (1987).
Among his early classics are
Thee Dawn (Guerrilla, 1992),
Freakadelica (1993), Temptation (1993), What's Love About (1994), Nu-World (1994), Clashbackk (credited to Sharkimaxx),
Thee Morning After (1994) and finally Reach Out (Radikal Fear, 1994),
as well as Aphrohead's In The Dark We Live (1993) and In The Garden (1993),
two classics.
His first album was By Dawn's Early Light (Deep Distraction,
1994), under the moniker Thee Maddkatt Courtship,
containing lengthy languid jams such as
By Dawns Early Light (10:51),
Tha Mental Blowout (12:28),
Who Tha' Critics (11:36) and
Phuzon (10:07),
followed by
Aphrohead's Thee Industry Made Me Do It (Power Music, 1995).
But it was his third album, Metropolis Present Day (Radikal Fear, 1995),
the first under his own name, that established his credentials,
while Rocketmann (Play It Again Sam, 2002) would be published only seven
years later.
Thee Maddkatt Courtship also released
Alone In The Dark (Deep Distraxion 1995), containing
Heaven Yes (10:20) and
Alone In The Dark (13:02),
and
the erratic and eclectic I Know Electrikboy (1999), with My Life Muzik.
The mini-album 10 contains the lengthy Blindmanwilly.
Stallings reached a wider audience with his sixth album,
Kittenz And Thee Glitz (Emperor Norton, 2001), a
nostalgic tribute to synth-pop of the 1980s.
Aphrohead returned with Thee Underground Made Me Do It (Clashback, 2003).
Devin Dazzle and The Neon Fever (Emperor Norton, 2004) is terribly
predictable, and mostly disposable, but Felix da Housecat manages to display
his class at producing dance-oriented pop songs even when the material
is so weak.
Rocket Ride and Watching Cars Go By are the singles.
The style ranges from the visceral What She Wants to the
sleep-inducing She's So Damn Cool.
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