les choses promises : Felix Cartal interview

Il fallait reparler de Felix Cartal. Il fallait apprendre à connaitre ce garçon dont on avait jamais entendu parler il y a encore une semaine et dont chaque morceau est un vrai hit. 4 questions pour 1 interview.

Where are you coming from ? We never heard of you and one day all these tunes are coming out, you are not signed on a label but you do remixes for Mstrkrft and Ashlee Simpson, how could this be ?

I started as a musician in a pretentious progressive rock-band throughout my earlier years, which I played bass guitar. The transition into electro was only natural. As for right now, I am practicing doing remixes/originals on my own, until I feel ready enough to approach a label (or a label feels ready enough to approach me, haha).

Are you a total bedroom producer or do you do dj mixes / live ? As you produce dance music, it's difficult not to imagine how this music would be received, so what the purpose of your music, at which moment
should it be played, for what kind of girl, what kind of clubs would you prefer your songs to be played in ?

Currently I'm only doing bedroom producing, because I don't have the resources to perform live, but hopefully that will change soon
;) ;) ;)

I'm making music because I've been inspired; electronica has made me excited about music again. It's helped me discover that adding a little bit of cliche in what you make is what makes music interesting, rather than trying to create something completley new, I'd rather rework the cliche into something fresh. I guess in that sense, I'm making music to try and inspire those like I have been. Ideally, I want my music played at the most typical, frat-boy filled club in town, because there would be nothing more satisfying then hearing 40 boys singing along to Ashlee Simpson unknowingly.

In the music universe what special friendships do you have, who are your models? what do you do in life except music?

Discodust has been really nice to me, supporting me from the beginning, and other various blogs (Shot Callin, Slutty Fringe, ON-OFF, TTY). Musically, my models have been Teki Latex (the happiest music on earth), the EdBanger team, melodramatic vocoder rock (the Midnight Juggernauts and All Night Dance Party, and those I've listened to before I even understood what electronica was (Daft Punk, Vitalic, The Chemical Brothers, Out Hud). Other than music, I am attending university and shopping a lot.

What are the 5 greatest mouths you know?

I feel like it would be too easy to insert a fellatio joke here, so I'm just going to answer straight up in a very particular order.
1. Stephen Tyler
2. Hilary Duff (who I'm dying to remix)
3. Dikembe Mutombo
4. Woody Allen's Wife/Daughter
5. Tony Blair

MP3 : Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E (Felix Cartal remix) (EXCLUSIVE)

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