Armand van Helden, who was born on the 16th of February in 1970 is an electro-house producer and DJ and producer from Boston, Massachusetts. He was among the primary advocates of the music genre speed garage, remixing numerous musicians including Sneaker Pimps, KRS One, Juliet Roberts, Janet Jackson Bloc Party, David Guetta, Britney Spears, Daft Punk and Katy Perry and the others with this particular musical model. Additionally, van Helden is closely connected with the digital music landscape of New York City.
Nevertheless, Armand van Helden was brought into this world by a French-Lebanese mom and a Dutch-Indonesian dad in Boston. However, he journeyed around the whole world during his childhood, passing time within Italy, Turkey, Latvia and Holland as his dad was a part of the U.S. Air Force. When he was thirteen years old, Armand purchased a drum machine and began DJing 2 yrs after this purchase.
He went back to Boston in ’88 and began to moonlight in the Boston nightclubs as a DJ while he attended school there.
In ’91, Armand left his day job to act as a remixer beneath the direction of X-Mix and Neil Petricone. At that time he gained a DJ residency in the Loft, a high Boston night-club at that time. He introduced his 1st public track which was a remix of “Stay on My Mind” by Deep Creed.
He introduced “Move It To the Left” (attributed to Sultans of Swing) in ’92. The track was a reasonable nightclub success and led to a sequence of tracks launched under numerous monikers for the music label.
Still, it had been the “Professional Widow” remix that created him and ended up being a dance success all around the planet in addition to a quantity-one-hit while in Great Britain. Sadly, Van Helden didn’t get a cent because of this remix since he introduced it noncommissioned and, consequently, had not been eligible for damages. Yet, it resulted in perform remixing Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, and Puff Daddy, along with Sneaker Pimps and Daft Punk, increasing his status as some of the globe’s leading house music artists.
“Cha-Cha” was still another top 10 dance triumph from his 1st record, Old-School Junkies: The Album that has been unveiled in ’96, in addition to “The Funk Phenomena.” A greatest-hits record came out the following year, succeeded with a break beat record after in ’97. “U Do not Know Me” turned out to be #2 hit in the Billboard dance chart, several one-hit while in the UK, plus a top 20 track in the music charts in both Canada and Australia. The tune was the break-out from his 2Future4U record that was introduced state-side on Armand’s own-label, Armed Records.
Back in ’05, he introduced the record Nympho, showcasing the songs “When the Lights Go Down”, “Hear My Name”, “My My My” and “Into Your Eyes”. The record climbed to the top thirty in Australia, and #48 in Great Britain. The track “When The Lights Go Down” attained #52 in the ARIA Charts in Australia and proved to be a nightclub and dance hit.
Once ’06 arrived, he re-launched “My My My” showcasing the United Kingdom vocalist Tara McDonald, which climbed to #12 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart and #1 within the United Kingdom dance charts. Remixes comprised the Stonebridge remix and the “Funktuary” radio edit.
In ’07, Armand launched his new record, Ghettoblaster, where he launched the tracks “NYC Beat” which climbed to #22 in the United Kingdom chart, as well as “I Want Your Soul,” which attained the 19th spot.
In ’08, Armand attained more business achievement by remixing “Inspire”, a #1 success by the Japanese pop celebrity Ayumi Hamasaki. This remix premiered in the record Ayu-mi-x 6: GOLD. Likewise, in ’08, Armand launched 2 records, You Do not Know Me: The Best of Armand Van Helden along with a mixture record named New York: a Mix Odyssey 2.
Back in May of 2009, Van Helden worked with British rap artist Dizzee Rascal on his track “Bonkers”. It came into the United Kingdom Singles Chart at # 1, where it remained for 2 weeks.
Afterwards in ’09, Van Helden worked alongside A-Trak to produce the track called “aNYway” that was published in October of that year under the moniker “Duck Sauce”. The duet afterwards got chart achievement with the tune “Barbra Streisand”, which arrived at # 3 in the United Kingdom.
At the beginning of 2011, Armand Van Helden said that he had a record intended for 2013. Armand Van Helden partnered with fellow producer/DJ A-Trak to officially create Duck Sauce in 2011. The couple obtained hit song “The Big Bad Wolf”
In 2013 launched the tune “It’s You” together with the group Duck Sauce, a winner on the dance floor all through the planet and has been selected for the MTV Video Awards.