Armand Van Helden

Surge Tracks

• My My My
• Funk Phenomena 2K
• You Don't Know Me
• Koochy

Artist Biography

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.

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Artist Discography

Albums

2 Future 4 U (1999-06-01)
Funk Phenomena the Album (2003-11-25)
Gandhi Khan (2001-10-02)
Ghettoblaster (2007-04-24)
Killing Puritans (2000-06-06)
Nympho (2005-07-04)
Old School Junkies (1995)
Sampleslaya: Enter the Meatmarket (1998-02-24)
The Armand van Helden Phenomena
The Funk Phenomena

EPs

2 Future 4 U EP (1999)

Singles

Flowerz (1999)
Full Moon (2000-07-10)
Ghettoblaster (2007-07)
Hear My Name (2004-04-19)
Into Your Eyes (2005)
I Want Your Soul (2007-09-02)
Je t'appelle / Hear My Name (2004)
Koochy (2000)
Koochy / Phreeknik (2000)
My My My (2004-10-26)
NYC Beat (2007)
Sugar (2006-03-13)
The Funk Phenomena (1997)
Ultrafunkula (1997)
When the Lights Go Down (2005-09-18)
Why Can't You Free Some Time (2001)
You Don't Know Me (1999-03-01)

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