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Taelor Deitcher (born April 9, 1987) better known by his stage name, Felix Cartal, is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He released his first EP Skeleton in 2009 once he signed with Dim Mak Records. Since then he has gone on to release two full length albums, 2010’s Popular Music and 2012's Different Faces and tour around the world with Wolfgang Gartner, MSTRKRFT, and Bloody Beetroots. Cartal set the trend of collaborating with unpredictable vocalists in the dance scene such as Sebastien Grainger of Death from Above 1979, Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds and Johnny Whitney of The Blood Brothers.
Early Years (2000- early 2006)
At age 13 in 2000 while attending New Westminster Secondary School, Cartal began playing bass in the punk and hardcore scene with a band called Dysfunctional, named after a sticker they had found. The sound was inspired from groups such as Refused, NoFx and Anti-Flag. While short lived, they developed a small following in Northern Vancouver played a wide range of venues all over Vancouver and surrounding areas, after releasing two albums Change Is A Good Thing and Bates Motel and an EP Free To Who?, the band broke up in 2004, which later reformed into a more progressive, Mars Volta/Pink Floyd inspired group named Orange Orange, which released the album Step Into Ecstasy in early 2006 followed immediately by their breakup. At this same time, Cartal was experimenting with Reason and Cubase on the side. Influenced by the club nights and parties deejayed by local stalwarts Tyler Fedchuk, Paul Devro, and my!gay!husband! that Cartal noticed the energy of the dance scene had the same feeling as the Punk scene had and wanted to create energetic aggressive music that he heard in Punk, but apply it to a new genre.
Skeleton and Popular Music (Late 2006-2010)
After enrolling at UBC (where he majored in English), Cartal started producing his own dance tracks. In December 2006, he started creating a following through his emergence in the international blog scene and early supporters MSTRKRFT with hard hitting original tracks such as “Moss vs. Tree” and “Parisienne” Just as a couple of his earliest speaker-shredding tunes were gathering an Internet buzz, the beatmaker moved to Scotland for a semester at Glasgow University. In the U.K., Cartal signed with a booking agent and started playing weekend shows across Britain and Europe. His 3rd show ever was opening for Justice in front of 4000 people. By the time he returned to his hometown four months later, he was already an underground star. He opened for MSTRKRFT on their Fist of God tour. He released several more remixes before being signed to Dim Mak Records and releasing his first EP entitled Skeleton in May 2009, featuring 4 songs, including the hard hitting track that defines his early sound, Montreal Dreams. Only four months later, Cartal released Drone as the first single for his debut LP Popular Music. Popular Music came out February 23, 2010. Along with Drone, the album featured the singles Volanco featuring The Blood Brothers Johnny Whitney, World Class Driver and Love. Music videos for Volcano and World Class Driver were made. Following the release, Cartal toured relentlessly, hitting large festivals along the way, Electric Daisy Carnival,Camp Bisco, South by Southwest, Winter Music Conference.
The Joker and Different Faces (2011-present)
In March 2011, Cartal’s 5th EP The Joker was released. The song initially was not going to be released and was created just in 1 day and was going to be kept just for Cartal to play during his live sets. It ended up being very successful and found its way to being played in the live sets by artist all over the scene, notably by electronic powerhouses Benny Benassi, Laidback Luke and Diplo, transcending across all scenes of dance music, another EP was made entitled The Jokers Remixes, which featured John Dahlback and Clouds. After extensive touring, Cartal started working on his sophomore album which blended several guest vocalists and focused more on catchy melodies, yet still retained his trademark aggressive sound. Different Faces came out March 27, 2012, it features the singles "Dont Turn On The Lights featuring Polina", "Domo", "Black To White featuring Miss Palmer", and "H.U.N.T featuring Sebastien Grainger". Different Faces debuted on the iTunes Top 10 Electronic charts in North America.