Eddie Amador
Here is the story of how Eddie Amador created the song/anthem: “House Music”. The following is an excerpt from our interview for the documentary.
Okay, well House Music, the track, the anthem, okay… I was working on Melrose like a few months. I finally saved enough money to buy a sampler, an Emu. I made some other kind of tracks, which weren’t that good. You know what? If you leave me alone, I become more techno. I become more energetic, a little bit too strong for house. I came back from “Does Your Mama Know”. I walked home and I said, “What am I doing wrong?” because I like this kind of techno shit I did and I was sampling all kinds of stuff. I mean not techno, I mean not techno, nothing over 128 beats per minute, but I just liked that edge. I walked home.
I said, “What do I do?” and I was kind of upset.
I was working at Street Sounds on Melrose Avenue, and this homeless guy came in. His name was Robert. He walked in and he would only listen to records. He had no money, so he’d just listen to records all day. The manager got mad because he’s not buying any records. But I heard his voice as an artist, and I said, “He’s got a good voice.”
The next day he came back again to listen to records, no money, and I said, “Hi, what’s your name?” He said, “My name is Robert.” I said, “Hi, Eddie Amador, how are you?” shook his hand. And I said, “Hey listen, can you come back tomorrow, Thursday? I’m going to write a track. Can you read?” “Yeah, I can read.” “Okay, come back tomorrow.”
So the next day I went to work, and I wrote something during my lunch break, and the words I wrote at my lunch—because I was going through a period where things were a little bit too strong for me—and I wrote these words: Not everyone understands house music. It’s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing. And I wrote the words.
The next day Robert shows up, and I said, “Robert, can you read?” “Yeah, I can read.” “Okay, listen. Wait five minutes.” Then, the manger left. I said, “Listen, Robert, go in the bathroom and here’s your list. Here’s my walkman.” So I gave him a cassette, and I said, “Listen, Robert, take this cassette recorder, sit on the toilet and read.” So he pressed record and said, “Not everyone understands house music. It’s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing,” but in his beautiful voice. I’m a producer, not a vocalist. And there it was. House is from…Again, that’s what I always say. House is like hip hop. I mean, no attitude, but it’s from the street. It’s from the soul. House is from the soul. When you go to a club and you feel it and you put your hoodie on and you’re like… That’s house to me.
- Eddie Amador
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BIOGRAPHY
It begins in Los Angeles in 1998. Eddie Amador pens the now-famous lyrics, Not everyone understands house music, It’s spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing, sets them to a hypnotic, pulsating beat, and the seminal dance club anthem House Music is born.
House Music went on to become a global hit and secured Eddie an album deal with Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi label. It was his next track, Rise, which proved that Eddie Amador was no one-hit wonder. Catapulting into the Top 20 of the UK national chart, Rise propelled Eddie to the status of a world-class DJ, and he was now performing at such super clubs as Ministry of Sound, The Queen, Centro-fly, Crobar, Stereo, as well as Pacha and Space in Ibiza.
Eddie’s international success allowed him the freedom and opportunity to set up a second studio in Europe in 2003. Moving to Amsterdam with the desire to progress his sound, Eddie, who has a degree in mechanical engineering, continued pushing the envelope musically and technologically. Not long after switching continents, Eddie collaborated with fellow American producer Ian Carey under the moniker Saturated Soul. The duo had a string of productions and remixes including “Got To Release” on Defected Records & “Say What You Want” on Nero Records. Meanwhile, Eddie was still turning out prime cuts for Yoshitoshi including “Shake It” in 2005 and “6 AM” in 2006.
While living abroad and inspired by the tougher tribal/electro sound coming out of Paris, Eddie created an outlet for more adventurous and underground forward thinking music: Mochicoprimo! Records. Having acquired visionary talent from Europe & the United States, Mochicoprimo! was positioned for dance floor devastation. Now 2007, Mochicoprimo is on it’s 16th release and sees creative acceptance by the masses as it now appears on the US Billboard Dance Chart with Amador & Carrillo’s “Spotlight.”
Eddie is now living back in Los Angeles and is working on a string of collaborations and remixes including Warner Bros, Nervous NYC, and Fine Tune. Eddie’s also maintaining a hectic dj schedule, holding down Mochicoprimo, and presenting a weekly 2 hour radio show called MIXIMIZED. Miximized can be heard every Friday night at 10pm on Arizona’s KNRJ 92.7/101.1 fm as well as 88.1 FM Beat in Argentina.
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