Armand Van Helden

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风格: #浩室舞曲　#电子舞曲　#电子乐　#英国车库舞曲
地区: United States of America 美国

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飚碟，狂舞，醉酒，白日梦——1999年是Armand Van Helden事业最红火的一年：1月，他的曲子U Don''t Know Me一举摘取了英国单曲榜的冠军；6月，他又与Fatboy Slim同场竞飚DJ技艺，让这位Big Beat教父级的人物叫苦不迭。但是去年他与英国舞曲公司FFRR之间的合约纠纷却阻碍了他事业的登峰造极。他觉得公司没有尽力为他的唱片作推广，也没有为紧跟在成功单曲U Don''t Know Me之后的单曲Flowerz拍摄音乐录影带。然而唱片公司却认为Armand Van Helden每次进录音棚都该拿出像U Don''t Know Me这样能够大卖的曲子。可Armand却总是随着自己的情绪，想做什么就做什么，完全不考虑是否能为公司赢利。这就是矛盾的根本所在。

Armand永远是一副贫民、土匪的样子，而事实上他最多只算个被招安了的土匪，家庭环境充其量不过比中产阶级稍差点。不过现在他又回来了，带着一支名为Full Moon的单曲和一张名为《Killing Puritans》的专辑回来了。Full Moon是首动感十足、巧心经营的曲子，既能讨好排行榜，同时在舞厅里也能造起强大的声势。而这张新专辑的标题则有些争议，但音乐还是那样的美丽与不羁。

Until he began branching out in 1996 with a barrage of album productions and remix classics (several of which were heard by more people than the originals), Armand Van Helden was one of the best-kept secrets in house music, recording for such labels as Strictly Rhythm, Henry St., and Logic. Afterwards, he became one of the top names in dance music altogether. As one in the steady progression of top in-house producers for Strictly Rhythm during the early '90s, Van Helden joined such names as Todd Terry, Erick Morillo, Roger Sanchez, Masters at Work and George Morel to record scores of club hits. By the late '90s, a clutch of crucial remixes and several albums made Van Helden's name as one of the most popular producers around.

Van Helden spent time in Holland, Turkey and Italy while growing up the son of an Air Force man, and listened to music from an early age. He bought a drum machine at the age of 13 and began DJing two years later, mostly hip-hop and freestyle. Based in Boston while attending college, Van Helden proceeded to moonlight as a DJ; though he settled into a legal-review job after graduation, he quit his job in 1991 to begin working on production for the remix service X-Mix Productions (founded by his future manager, Neil Pettricone). Van Helden also owned a residency at Boston's Loft, and soon made it into one of the most popular nightclubs in the city. After playing one of his production demos for the dance A&R guru Gladys Pizarro in 1992, Van Helden released his proper debut single, Deep Creed's "Stay on My Mind," for Nervous Records.

Later that year, Van Helden released "Move It to the Left" by Sultans of Swing, his first single for the premiere American dance label Strictly Rhythm. Though a moderate club hit, the single was eclipsed by another Strictly Rhythm offering, 1994's "Witch Doktor." It became a dancefloor hit around the world and introduced him to a larger club audience. Although he had remixed Deee-Lite, Jimmy Somerville, New Order, Deep Forest and Faithless, a reworked version of Tori Amos' "Professional Widow" hit the clubs with the same impact as his "Witchdoktor" single. During 1996-97, Van Helden became the name for forward-thinking pop artists to recruit for remixing duty from the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson and Puff Daddy to Sneaker Pimps, C.J. Bolland and Daft Punk. His own-name singles productions continued unabated, with hits like "Cha Cha" and "The Funk Phenomena," plus the release of his first album, Old School Junkies. Following a 1997 Greatest Hits retrospective, Van Helden returned to his old-school rap roots with the party breakbeat album, Sampleslayer...Enter the Meatmarket. The 2 Future 4 U EP followed in 1998, and in mid-2000 Van Helden returned with Killing Puritans. The records kept on coming: Ghandi Khan (2001), Funk Phenomena: The Album (2003), New York: A Mix Odyssey (2004), and Nympho (2005).

Armand Van Helden

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