let's talk about Armand Van Helden

M Matos -- no kidding about Armand being a lame DJ. Have you heard his mix of "Big Love" with his own "Summertime"? Not pretty.

Felicity -- You quoted my second favorite Armand line. First fave: "I'm lookin for them female ejaculates / Spreading that cootchie with the masturbates."

plus, AVH has a spectacular ability to piss my friends off - i got in a lot of trouble walking around mumbling the hook from koochy, and 'u don't' has sent more than few of them screaming from the room. so, k-classic.

two non-ILM people have recommended this to me. anyone else? It's got Company B "Fascinated" on it!

His new track is FUCKING AWFUL, by the way.

I must get that mix so Spencer, that's recommendation enough!

This is one of the greatest tracks to dance to of all time.

I love and have absolutely loved "Hear My Name" for some time. Damn. The timing on that vocal track is really good. And I love the spanking video, really. Really.

new stuff is so 'meeeeeh'

I happened to be listening to Witchdoktor when I saw this thread pop up in the new answers... weird... "Coochie" remains one of my all-time favorite dancefloor-destroyers, given the right crowd. it's so very mixable, too.

^^^ Ahhh christ what I meant was the b-side to Koochy (now spelled correctly, long as I'm making matters right), which is "Phreeknik", a huge breakbeat / siren / shaker percussion freak-out of a track.

Koochy's just warmed-over-electro-pop comparatively. Now I can sleep.

No-one has ever ever ever agreed with me about the brilliance of "Conscience" - Armand why did you ruin one of your best tracks by putting some boring taped rant at the beginning of it? :-(

New album people!

I specifically love "Touch Your Toes", "This Ain't Hollywood" and the Company B-esque "Still in Love".

my interview with Armand is here:
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid40223.aspx
red foxx's new vidvite featuring "I Want Your Soul" is here:
http://www.virb.com/electro/videos/12191
f.w.i.w.

just realized "Flowerz" is a sample from donald byrd's "think twice"

such a beautiful section, from the last minute of the song

not something you would think to turn into its own song tho, really great selection by armand here ... you can tell its the kind of idea you'd have after wearing out the grooves on 'steppin into tomorrow'

seeing this thread just now made me pull out my 'witch doktor' 12", which i don't think i've listened to since i bought it. it sounds great! kinda wild-pitch-y.

i really like 'ghettoblaster', but it's so SHAMELESS in it's recycling of 80s club styles. although i guess that's the point. like for each song you can pick out, 'oh there's debbie deb, there's adonis' etc. but it's a fun listen.

witch doktor is unimpeachable

re: "Flowerz," had that realization a few months after first hearing it myself.

But, yeah, pretty much it's the best deep house song ever.

So between doing "Work Me Godamit" and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6IFx9Ge7I

I'm pretty convinced he is or was gay for real.

Just sayin

gay "for real"?

I never copped that Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal) was by him til a few days ago. that is an awesome tune.

I put "Hear My Name" on a CD-700 for someone this morning. Fantastic song.

As opposed to not gay for real (i.e. "Kootchy").

I don't really think he was/is gay, actually, but it's odd how much of a bona fide interloper he was in the early/mid 90s.

What really annoys me about Killing Puritans is that the sleeve has everything listed in this funny code, with symbols for letters - it was a complete mindfuck when I first got the album and I couldn't just put it in Windows Media Player to get the names up