Biography

and started DJing ii years late.

He returned to Boston witharound 1988 however likewise moonlighted as a DJ in Boston clubs. He quit his legal read job around 1991 to operate as a remixer & require higher an occupancy at a Loft, Boston's leading cabaret. He freed his foremost official only, the mix of Deep Creed's "Stay on my Mind" across Nervous Records.

He freed "Move It To The Left" credited to Sultans of Swing later on around 1992 on the Strictly Rhythm label which became a moderate club hit. His foremost track to produce a Hoarding dance stock and index charts was "Witch Doktor" which manufactured a top Phoebe around 1994.

A profits of "Witch Doktor" led to chance to remix acts like New Order, Deep Forest, Jimmy Somerville, Deee-Lite and Faithless. Notwithstanding, it was a "Professional Widow" remix that established him & became a dance hit when much as the world besides as the first hit in the UK. Ironically, van Helden did non receive the penny for this mix when he presented it uncommissioned & so was does'nt entitled to compensation. But, it led to operate remixing the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson and Puff Daddy as well as Daft Punk and the Sneaker Pimps when well as adding to his reputation as one of the world's top home musicians.

"Cha Cha" was an additional top x dance hit from either his foremost album "Old School Junkies" freed inside 1996 by using "The Funk Phenomena" likewise appearing. the greatest hits album appeared the next season followed by a breakbeat album later within 1997. "U Don't Know Me" was the #2 hit on the Hoarding dance tracks, the First inside the UK & the top Twenty only on the popular stock & index charts in Australia and Canada.

Van Helden freed a Killing Puritans album inside 2000 which contained a dance hit "Koochy". His only "Why Can't You Spend Some Time" mass produced a total 34 within the UK in 2001. His "New York: A Mix Odyssey" album freed within 2004 produced 2 hits:

"Hear my Name" reached #7 within a Hoarding dance chart, was top Xxx on globe & net stock & index charts, mass produced total 34 in the UK, and reached the top Forty in Australia; and

"My My My" reached #4 on the globe cyberspace stock & index stock & index stock and index charts, #5 around the Belgian and Dutch charts, #6 in Australia, #15 in the UK and top Thirty in the world dance charts.

Around 2005 he freed a album Nymphomaniac featuring a lone "Into Your Eyes", which reached a top Thirty around Australia, & total 48 in the UK.

Discography

Albums

Old School Junkies: The Album (1996) Da Club Phenomena (1997) ''Live from ya Mother's House (1997) Enter the Meatmarket (1997) Greatest Hits (1997) 2 Future 4 U (1998 UK, 1999 US) #22 UK Armand van Helden's Nervous Tracks (1999) Killing Puritans (2000) #38 UK Gandhi Khan (2001) New York: A Mix Odyssey (2004) Nympho'' (2005)

Hit singles
1997 "Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)" (remix of Tori Amos song) #1 UK 1997 "The Funk Phenomena" #38 UK 1997 "Ultrafunkula" #46 UK 1999 "You Don't Know Me" (deed. Duane Harden) #1 UK, #11 CAN 1999 "Flowerz" (exploit. Roland Clark) #18 UK 2000 "Koochy" #4 UK 2001 "Why Can't You Free Some Time" #34 UK 2001 "You Can't Change Me" (Roger Sanchez feat. Armand Van Helden & N'Dea Davenport) #25 UK 2004 "Hear My Name" #34 UK 2004 "My My My" #15 UK 2005 "Into Your Eyes" #48 UK 2005 "When The Lights Go Down" #70 UK

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