Armand Van Helden is a house music artist and music remixer whose biggest c… Read Full Bio ↴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 on February 17, 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.
He released "Move It To the Left" (credited to Sultans of Swing) in 1992 on the Strictly Rhythm label, which became a moderate club hit. His first track to make the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart was "Witch Doktor" which made the top 5 in 1994.
The success of "Witch Doktor" led to opportunities to remix acts such as The Real McCoy ("Another Night", New Order ("Bizarre Love Triangle"), Blondie ("Atomic), Capella ("U Got To Know"), Lightning Seeds ("Jackie Lucky"), Deep Forest ("Marta's Song"), Jimmy Somerville ("Heartbeat"), Deee-Lite ("Dewdrops In The Garden") and Faithless ("Insomnia"). However, it was the "Professional Widow" remix that established him and became a dance hit around the world as well as a number one hit in the UK. Unfortunately, Van Helden did not receive a penny for this mix as he presented it uncommissioned, and thus was not entitled to compensation. However, it led to work remixing The Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Puff Daddy as well as Daft Punk and the Sneaker Pimps, and adding to his reputation as one of the world's top house musicians.
Within dance music circles, Van Helden is widely credited for the introduction of the U.K. bred Speed Garage sound to the U.S. club scene with incredible set of remixes. The sound, identifiable by its deep bass subtones, long melodic breaks, and devestatingly hard hitting beats are exemplified in the following remixes beginning in 1995 with Jimmy Somerville "Heartbeat"; CJ Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"; Faithless "Insomnia"; Tori Amos "Professional Widow"; Apollo 440 "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub"; and Sneaker Pimps "Spin, Spin, Sugar."
"Cha Cha" was another top ten dance hit from his first album Old School Junkies released in 1996, along with "The Funk Phenomena". A greatest hits album appeared the next year followed by a breakbeat album later in 1997. "U Don't Know Me," a collaboration with vocalist Duane Harden from the album, "2 Futur 4 U," was a number two hit on the Billboard dance chart, a Number one in the UK and a top 20 single on the pop charts in Australia and Canada.
In 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, Armand Van Helden explained, "You Don't Know Me was a perfect example of putting 2 simple things together, the beats from Jaydee's Plastic Dreams and a disco loop from Carrie Lucas."
Van Helden released the Killing Puritans album in 2000 which contained the dance hit "Koochy". His single "Why Can't You Spend Some Time" made the number 34 in the UK in 2001. His New York: A Mix Odyssey album released in 2004 produced two hits:
* "Hear my Name" reached number 7 on the Billboard dance chart, was top 30 on world and internet charts, made number 34 in the UK, and reached the top 40 in Australia; and
* "My My My" reached number 4 on the world internet charts, number 5 in the Belgian and Dutch charts, number 6 in Australia, number 15 in the UK and top 30 in the world dance charts.
In 2010 Van Helden teamed with A-Trak to form the duo Duck Sauce. They had an international smash hit with "Barbra Streisand," which used an ingenious sample from Boney M.
Van Helden was born in Boston on February 17, 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.
He released "Move It To the Left" (credited to Sultans of Swing) in 1992 on the Strictly Rhythm label, which became a moderate club hit. His first track to make the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart was "Witch Doktor" which made the top 5 in 1994.
The success of "Witch Doktor" led to opportunities to remix acts such as The Real McCoy ("Another Night", New Order ("Bizarre Love Triangle"), Blondie ("Atomic), Capella ("U Got To Know"), Lightning Seeds ("Jackie Lucky"), Deep Forest ("Marta's Song"), Jimmy Somerville ("Heartbeat"), Deee-Lite ("Dewdrops In The Garden") and Faithless ("Insomnia"). However, it was the "Professional Widow" remix that established him and became a dance hit around the world as well as a number one hit in the UK. Unfortunately, Van Helden did not receive a penny for this mix as he presented it uncommissioned, and thus was not entitled to compensation. However, it led to work remixing The Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Puff Daddy as well as Daft Punk and the Sneaker Pimps, and adding to his reputation as one of the world's top house musicians.
Within dance music circles, Van Helden is widely credited for the introduction of the U.K. bred Speed Garage sound to the U.S. club scene with incredible set of remixes. The sound, identifiable by its deep bass subtones, long melodic breaks, and devestatingly hard hitting beats are exemplified in the following remixes beginning in 1995 with Jimmy Somerville "Heartbeat"; CJ Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"; Faithless "Insomnia"; Tori Amos "Professional Widow"; Apollo 440 "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub"; and Sneaker Pimps "Spin, Spin, Sugar."
"Cha Cha" was another top ten dance hit from his first album Old School Junkies released in 1996, along with "The Funk Phenomena". A greatest hits album appeared the next year followed by a breakbeat album later in 1997. "U Don't Know Me," a collaboration with vocalist Duane Harden from the album, "2 Futur 4 U," was a number two hit on the Billboard dance chart, a Number one in the UK and a top 20 single on the pop charts in Australia and Canada.
In 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, Armand Van Helden explained, "You Don't Know Me was a perfect example of putting 2 simple things together, the beats from Jaydee's Plastic Dreams and a disco loop from Carrie Lucas."
Van Helden released the Killing Puritans album in 2000 which contained the dance hit "Koochy". His single "Why Can't You Spend Some Time" made the number 34 in the UK in 2001. His New York: A Mix Odyssey album released in 2004 produced two hits:
* "Hear my Name" reached number 7 on the Billboard dance chart, was top 30 on world and internet charts, made number 34 in the UK, and reached the top 40 in Australia; and
* "My My My" reached number 4 on the world internet charts, number 5 in the Belgian and Dutch charts, number 6 in Australia, number 15 in the UK and top 30 in the world dance charts.
In 2010 Van Helden teamed with A-Trak to form the duo Duck Sauce. They had an international smash hit with "Barbra Streisand," which used an ingenious sample from Boney M.
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Armand van Helden Lyrics
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Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I check myself just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I check myself just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I check myself just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I told myself Iâ??ve got nothing to lose
Time after time I check myself just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
The lyrics to "aNYway" by Armand Van Helden & A-Trak pres. Duck Sauce are about taking risks and not being afraid to try new things. The repetition of "time after time I told myself I've got nothing to lose" emphasizes the idea of not being held back by fear or hesitation. The line "time after time I check myself just to make sure" suggests that despite the willingness to take risks, there is still a level of caution and consideration.
The repetition of "I can do it anyway that you want it" reinforces the idea of not being restricted by guidelines or expectations. The lyrics suggest that the singer is confident in their abilities and willing to adapt to any situation. The upbeat and energetic nature of the music supports this idea of embracing new opportunities and being unapologetically confident.
Overall, "aNYway" is an anthem for taking risks, being bold, and living fearlessly. The lyrics encourage listeners to throw caution to the wind and seize every opportunity that comes their way.
Line by Line Meaning
Time after time I told myself I've got nothing to lose
Repeatedly, I convinced myself that I have no risk or consequence in this situation.
Time after time I check myself just to make sure
I repeatedly examine my thoughts and behaviors to ensure they align with my goals and values.
I can do it anyway that you want it
I am capable of performing this task or achieving this objective according to your preferences or specifications.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Jamie Floyd, Stephen Wrabel
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Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I check myself
Just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I check myself
Just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I told myself
I got nothin' to lose
Time after time
I check myself
Just to make sure
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
I can do it anyway that you want it
@coreydawkins4864
Boom!!
That's how you know when music is good, when years after it still sounds fresh and totally groovy as when it first dropped. A big hot banger of a marvelous tune.
@jmcd31
One of the best house tracks I've heard recently!
@sarias320
this song has been on repeat for the last 4 hours in my room :) LOVE IT!
@stevenwilliams9181
What a tune. Can't stop listening to it
@dc110770
This is like the good old funky house era of the early 2000's!
@Yceciclecicle
i listened to this 3 times in a row and i still love it
@joelhagdahl5769
That guitar riff underneath the vocal! PURE class...
@pepedomingocastanas
the current British 60's revival is actually so creative. How can they produce so many magical sounds? Long live Annie Mac & Pete Tong
@kevster127
This has to be the best tune out for a very long time, priceless!
@03wheelerg
It is impossible to sit completely still when this song is played!!!