You can always rely on Chicago-based vinyl junkie Felix Da Housecat to turn out a mix CD with a bit of a character. Excursions is a million miles from the frightfully dull progressive house brigade. Felix Da Housecat has been a particularly vocal advocate of the 80s electro-pop revival: it was his 2001 album, Kittenz And Thee Glitz, that brought the mercurial talents of French ice queen Miss Kitten--the vocalist of genre-defining synthcore duo Miss Kitten & The Hacker--to the world stage. Da Housecat's distinctive remix style demonstrates all the hallmarks of the revival sound: synth-heavy minimal house, poised at the midpoint between the robotic funk of Giorgio Moroder and the immediate disco fever of Daft Punk. And while Excursions collars everything from the jackhammer techno of Jeff Mills to the prancing camp of Zoot Woman to the austere Krautpop of Ladytron into one 73-minute mix, it's testament to Felix Da Housecat's skill as a DJ that this compilation never steps beyond its own elegantly defined boundaries. Suave, slick, seductive: as a document of the new wave of synthpop, Felix Da Housecat: Excursions is hard to fault. --Louis Pattison
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