- Courtesy of David Beltran/Starfoxxx
- Starfoxxx at the Empty Bottle
Local-music stalwart David Beltran wears a lot of hats. He cofounded FeelTrip, a collective and record label that once operated out of a cavernous loft in the South Loop—Beltran and his cohorts threw DIY shows featuring the Orwells, Sepalcure, and Dirty Beaches, and the space also included a studio that Yawn and Twin Peaks used to record sessions. Beltran’s also a talented visual artist, and I’m a fan of his Chicago band calendar and his “Feeltrip Lovers” T-shirt, which I wrote about in the 2013 edition of the Reader‘s Best of Chicago.
David Beltran: I had like 20 or so scratch tracks just sitting around that I made in my old studio, FeelTrip. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish them because we had to move out of the studio, and our second place got condemned within a few months, so there was a five-month period of not really being able to settle in and work on it. I really had only wanted to do a five-song EP, but once I got settled in my new apartment all the songs started to come together. The actual working time was probably six months, over a year and half of bouncing around.
I noticed you sampled a cat—or cats—meowing on “My Cats Will Die B4 Me.” Whose cats are those? What inspired that song?
