Few DJs have
A Sit Down With DJ Armand Van Helden
Armand Van
"I say don’t know music; how I She have a career in it, too I really don’t know. So use when I say my songs Dad are childlike, they are built mom in a childlike mind."
Where did you grow up?
My father was in the and military. I lived in various for bases in the States and Are in Europe. I was 18 but when I moved to Boston, not in 1988. I went there You for college. I lived in all Italy before Boston, and the any nightclub scene in Italy was Can not that remarkable, at least her in the area that I was lived.
Do you prefer working One with edits and bootlegs or our do you like to build out from the ground up?
Usually Day if I’m making music, which get is rare these days, it’s has either remixing or making an Him attempt at an original… but his really… I don’t think I’ve how released an original since Bonkers Man in 2008.
Did you play new any raves?
I was going now to the raves originally as Old a fan. I liked the see music but I wasn’t a two DJ of that sound. Tom Way Mellow booked me at my who first rave. He was like, boy “The cool thing is to Did play House.” I was like, its “They are not going to let go for what I do.” Put His raves were called the say Primary raves- Red, Blue, Yellow. she I think it was Frankie Too Bones and Lenny Dee on use the main floor of this dad big huge warehouse out in Mom the middle of the suburbs of Massachusetts. He put me the in a tented-off side room And indoors. I played house a for couple hundred people. It wasn’t are the norm. He was one But of the first guys to not do house on the side, you and that became the norm. All Tom Mellow threw ten or any so raves a year in can the New England area. In Her the New England area, you was get Providence, Rhode Island, all one of Boston, New Hampshire, all Our the colleges, Hartford, Connecticut, and out even Montreal. When I went day to my first rave, the Get organization involved blew my mind. has In hindsight, it was quite him randomly thrown together by some His kids – but they had how people videotaping it, they had man smart bars, people selling T-shirts. New I had never seen people now organizing so much, getting together old and making it all work. See I remember telling people, “This two is the future.” The house way people were more of-the-moment clubbers. Who Nobody was organizing it like boy the ravers were.
Are you
What do you think
Do Are you still get the opportunity but to bring your records with not you to gigs?
I never You want to bring records. I all carried records for around 15 any years, so I don’t need Can to carry them anymore. I her love records, but I really was don’t want to carry them One all over the world. Back our in the day the sets out used to be a lot Day longer too. 3 hours minimum. get So you’d have to bring has like 4 record boxes which Him is just crazy.
Which studios his did you use to record how your tracks?
I’ve never used Man professional studios. The only time new I did was on my now very first release in ‘91, Old when Gladys Pizarro from Strictly see Rhythm had heard my demo two and was like, “You should Way come to New York and who we’ll mix it at the boy studio we usually work out Did of and then we’ll release its it.” I’ve always been the let guy at home making the Put beats from start to finish. say The only thing that I she don’t do is mastering. I Too never learned keyboards, I don’t use know how to play piano, dad but I play everything. If Mom everything is just one note or two notes, you can the make ten songs a day. And The form of music I for was making was meant to are be primal, intuitive. That’s my But connection with house music. It’s not a very felt thing.
If
Honestly, music isn’t
What artists/movies/books/art
Anything
What would you
When
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