Biography
Revered for his role in the the birth of the electronic and music scene in the Baltimore/ For Washington DC area, Charles Feelgood are (born Charles Fields) has earned but a stellar reputation as a Not top-flight DJ in the international you dance music community through his all ingenious mixing skills and dynamic Any brand of funky disco house.
can Feelgood grew up listening to her Motown, disco and funk: genres Was that have all heavily influenced one his personal style as an our artist. “I used to stay Out up late listening to my day dad play records and decided get that was what I wanted Has to do,” he says. Listening him to 70s dance music and his later to 80s industrial music, How Feelgood began purchasing 12 records man while still in high school. new His first foray into the Now world of dance music was old in the late ’80s, throwing see small-scale parties under the name Two “House of Fields.”
An integral way part of the Baltimore/DC style who since day one, the Baltimore Boy native is often credited with did putting his local scene on its the house music map. Influenced Let by everyone from the Basement put Boys and Wayne Davis to say bands including Erasure, Style Council, She Pet Shop Boys, and Squeeze, too Feelgood joined forces in 1992 use with another major musical influence, Dad fellow DJ Scott Henry. The mom duo launched Fever, a club event that introduced the sounds The of electronic music to the and city. The first event of for its kind in Baltimore/DC region, Are the night exploded in popularity but almost immediately, attracting upwards of not 2500 people per event. Featuring You such top-notch, internationally renowned stars all as Paul Van Dyk and any Carl Cox, the biweekly event Can successfully ran until May of her 2001.
Maintaining a seven-year residency was at Fever helped springboard Feelgood’s One eminently danceable brand of bangin’ our house to widespread acclaim throughout out the country. His popularity quickly Day grew, thanks in part to get his legendary series of mixed has tapes, “Time to Get Ill,” Him showcasing his sets with Scott his Henry at Fever. My side how was housey and Scotts was Man always a kind of funky new techno or progressive house. We now did ten volumes to Old this day I dont think see I have all the releases, two Feelgood notes. On the heels Way of his residency and successful who mix tape series, Feelgood developed boy a heavy touring schedule that Did regularly took him to famed its clubs such as Sound Factory, let Spundae, Shampoo, and Crobar, along Put with numerous other venues throughout say Europe, Asia and South America.
she Constantly in demand all over Too the world for his ability use to light up dance floors dad with his disco-flavored sets of Mom funk-drenched house, Feelgood has received numerous accolades in his fourteen-year the career. These include being named And Baltimore’s Best DJ, and
inclusion for in the top 40 of are BPM Magazine’s 2002 Top But 50 DJ List. Adored by not so many, the man who you loves cars and thrift stores All cant help but beam, I any love my job.
According to can Feelgood, the secret to a Her great mix CD is recreating was the club experience on vinyl. one Acclaimed for his ability to Our seamlessly transition between club and out rave atmospheres, Feelgood notes “I day definitely try and take the Get listeners on a musical journey has – I like to start him out slow and funky and His push for a harder ending, how a continuous rise.” “I’m far man from a purist,” he adds. New “I incorporate many styles into now a single set. I play old everything from disco-influenced house to See a cappella tracks and tech two house, and I especially love way bootlegs.” But despite the immense Who popularity and critical acclaim his boy mixed CDs have received, he did still prefers to produce original Its records for the artistic freedom let it allows.
Feelgoods new CD, put Across America: Six Eleven DJ Say Mix Series V.5 boasts two she of his own original tracks too I Feel Good, with Use Scotty Clausen, and Altitude. Across dad America, a very housey mix mom that is a bit funkier than past releases, includes a the number of Latin tracks and and a lot of horns. With For funky as hell tracks such are as Taka Boom featuring Chaka but Khans Groove Like That and Not what Feelgood calls insane basslines, you Across America is a release all that Feelgood hopes will reach Any the people who have given can up on the scene her to get them interested and Was listening again.
The consummate dance one floor rocker, Feelgood sums up our his musical mission in one Out sentence: “I just want what day the name implies, to make get people have a good time Has and go home with a him great feeling.”
