‘The Fire’ junta Armand Van Helden a Kideko
Certainly, the return to Armand Van Helden’s releases, with ‘The Fire’, one of the best-known names on the global house scene, with a three-decade career, could not go unnoticed.
On “The Fire,” Van Helden joins forces with Kideko , a young DJ and producer from Brighton, England. Released under the Warner Music label, “ The Fire ” is an uplifting house song that combines euphoric piano chords with vocal samples from classics like “Keep The Fire Burning” and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”, by Mowtown. It should be remembered that Gwen McCrae provided the voice for the first sampled song and the unmissable song, The Temptations , for the second.
Above all, Van Helden has a career that includes Grammy nominations and four UK Singles Chart No. 1s. Recently Van Helden revived his project with A-Trak, Duck Sauce , to release two singles: “Captain Duck” and “I Don’t Mind”. Last March, his single “Give Me Your Loving” made the BBC Radio 1 playlist. Similarly, Armand collaborated with Solardo and Herve on “ Power Of Bass ”.
Furthermore, this collaboration brings together two generations of house music. Kideko , an English DJ and producer active since 2015 and with some hits under his own name such as “The Jam”. Firstly, he released for some of the most important labels such as Toolroom, Fatboy Slim’s Skint, Positiva or Ministry Of Sound and, secondly, he accumulated 20 million streams with “Crank It (Whoa!)”, a collaboration with George Kwali.