Man oh Man. One hell of a show this weekend (1/23/09) in San Berny D with Felix Da Housecat and Junior Sanchez. Little did we know that both players would be unleashing some amazing tunes. Including a hot new tune from Junior Sanchez ‘They Live’ which will be available for stream only on Bopper Nation and a sneak peak at Felix Da Housecat’s Rudephoto release ‘Dark Room (Mr. Lightman).
It was my first time hearing Junior Sanchez at work and I have to say he had an awesome arsenal of tunes. I enjoyed his combination of multiple genres including some touch downs in Underground Hip Hop! There was no doubt that either of these two performers knew their music selection and in a way we got to have two sets back to back of both genius’ at work. With Junior playing tribute to Felix with Thin White Duke’s remix of ‘Silver Screen’ and then Junior later getting involved in Felix’s set picking out a couple tunes including the second to last tune of the night, ‘Knights of Cydonia’ by Muse.
Felix’s lineup included the classic tunes we all expect him to play each show, Elvi$, Kickdrum but then instantly he started pulling out tricks from his sleeve when he dropped a never before heard remix of Silver Screen. I turned to Steve Pross (Disco Pinata) to find out what this monster was and even he wasn’t aware. After the show though Felix did tweet out to DJ Chuckie about the remix so it’s only fair to assume he is responsible for this beast!
When Felix threw up Deadmau5 ‘FML’ I had to join him and Junior up in the booth and one deadly tune follows another and Felix Cartal’s ‘Drone’ is always a great way to tear up the audience! But once again Da Housecat decided to surprise us by breaking away from his usual arsenal of tunes and pulling out another hidden gem. This time it was CaTekk’s monster of a tune ‘Funny Little Clouds.’ He then took it back with Raven and brought in a little DJ Sneak.
It was an awesome night for Xmix Productions with Junior Sanchez (XMIX), Felix Da Housecat (XMIX) and songs from other Xmix Artist, DJ Sneak. But there was also some Old School favorites brought out for the evening, Daft Punk ‘Rolling & Scratching’ tore the audience up. Felix must have been feeling that mezcal and the audience was feeling the music because when Nirvana ‘Lithium’ dropped this hardcore heavy electrofried crowd was suddenly transported to the grunge of the 90′s and we all had to salute the man and pay tribute.
All in all it was a successful night and I hope everyone has moments to stop and appreciate great talent when it comes and stops by because there is a lot of cheese out of there in the electronic world and if you think you know good music you better open up your mind, stop and listen. And above all else prepare for Rudephoto, Felix closed that evening with ‘Darkroom ‘Mr Lightman’ and no joke that tune is good, but on a loud sound system in the wee hours of the night that tune is one massive monster tearing the audience apart bit by bit. But it’s truly that Underground Sound of Aphrohead, get ready 2010.
Junior Sanchez | Aprohead | Felix Da Housecat | Xmix
UPDATE:
If you want to see some of the craziness, check out the photos now added in the Gallery!
The Kandy Festival 2010 with Felix da Housecat and Junior Sanchez
