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Armand Van Helden is a house music artist and music remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song “Professional Widow”, which reached the top of the UK singles chart, and his own track “You Don’t Know Me” which was Number 1 in the UK in January 1999.
Van Helden was born in Boston in 1970 to a Dutch-Indonesian father and a French-Lebanese mother, but travelled around the world as a child spending time in the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy, as his father was a member of the US Air Force. At the age of thirteen, he bought a drum machine and started DJing two years later.
He returned to Boston in 1988 but also moonlighted as a DJ in Boston clubs. He attended Boston University. He quit his legal review job in 1989 to work as a remixer/producer for Mega-Mixx Productions DJ Remix Service (co-founded by his long time manager, Neil Petricone) where he reworked and re-edited a number of club records for the DJ-only service, including Shawn Christopher’s “Another Sleepless Night.” He also took up an occupancy at ‘The Loft’, Boston’s leading nightclub.
Mega-Mixx’s success was short lived. Mismanagement brought the company to a halt in early 1991. Later that year, he and Petricone, along with founding A&R coordinator, Tony Zeoli, launched X-Mix Productions, a similar DJ Remix service, which still exists today (http://www.xmix.com). Catching the attention of legendary Strictly Rhythm and Nervous Records A&R guru, Glady Pizarro, in 1992 Van Helden released his first official single “Stay On My Mind” under the psuedonym Deep Creed, through Nervous Records.
Van Helden was born in Boston in 1970 to a Dutch-Indonesian father and a French-Lebanese mother, but travelled around the world as a child spending time in the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy, as his father was a member of the US Air Force. At the age of thirteen, he bought a drum machine and started DJing two years later.
He returned to Boston in 1988 but also moonlighted as a DJ in Boston clubs. He attended Boston University. He quit his legal review job in 1989 to work as a remixer/producer for Mega-Mixx Productions DJ Remix Service (co-founded by his long time manager, Neil Petricone) where he reworked and re-edited a number of club records for the DJ-only service, including Shawn Christopher’s “Another Sleepless Night.” He also took up an occupancy at ‘The Loft’, Boston’s leading nightclub.
Mega-Mixx’s success was short lived. Mismanagement brought the company to a halt in early 1991. Later that year, he and Petricone, along with founding A&R coordinator, Tony Zeoli, launched X-Mix Productions, a similar DJ Remix service, which still exists today (http://www.xmix.com). Catching the attention of legendary Strictly Rhythm and Nervous Records A&R guru, Glady Pizarro, in 1992 Van Helden released his first official single “Stay On My Mind” under the psuedonym Deep Creed, through Nervous Records.
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alekmystery wrote:
armad van helden mymymy get doetdet this zelf mymymy oooo baby top6
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house-and-more wrote:
weekly update of: analysis from house last.fm groups, and: Armand is in the top6 list of characteristic artists, 3 artists entered new this week into top10, 1 mmoved out, >760 bands are analyzed. read more: http://www.last.fm/user/house-and-more/journal
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Ambryer wrote:
♥ U Don't Know Me [3]
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volumeone wrote:
cha cha
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KooL_DudE_HaMeR wrote:
up down down town, that's the sound of the N.Y.C beat!
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house-and-more wrote:
from 331 artists, 8 are characteristic for house last.fm groups: and ... Armand Van Helden is in the top4 currently - see the others here: http://www.last.fm/user/house-and-more/journal
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Aartmusic wrote:
Armand van Helden makes songs wich bring you in hypnose.
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RussellChap wrote:
♥ U Don't Know Me [2]
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juliendu48 wrote:
The Funk Phenomena > a classic :)
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XEGTR wrote:
Очень даже неплохая музыка
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DJSMusicfactory wrote:
So HOT & cool!!! I love you, Mr. Dj!!! :-)
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alembicsound wrote:
Armand is my cousin.
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Paul_Konovalov wrote:
Armand Van Helden & Steve Aoki - Brat этож блеать! прет! прет.
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Dominatorm16 wrote:
Рубит хорошо. Кто-нибудь знает еще что-то энергичное в этом роде?
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Lacasuit wrote:
♥ U Don't Know Me
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Dj-BlackJack wrote:
I absolutely loved that "Spin Spin Sugar" remix... Wich album U guys recommend 4 me?
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SaloMusic wrote:
Нормальный перец. +
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tehadi wrote:
mine? o_0
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loudecibels wrote:
I remember seeing him when Daft Punk's "One More Time" just hit in a rave. I honestly thought it was Ali G up there DJing for us. I also thought he was Madonna's "Music" music video. Great DJ anyways...definitely stands out amongst the rest of the house DJs out there.
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HandsomeDead wrote:
Any news on that new album of his that's supposed to be out this year? Been too long since Ghettoblaster.
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