Arling & Cameron

Even though the dance duo Arling & Cameron call Amsterdam home, their strongest musical links connect to the varied Japanese lounge, dance, and pop sounds emerging at the close of the 1990s. Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron began working together in 1994 by staging a party series titled "Easy Tune" in Amsterdam, from which tracks were drawn for release on Cameron’s Drive-In label, resulting in the 1996 compilation The Best of Easy Tune. That same year Arling & Cameron landed a hit in the Netherlands with “Aloha,” and later supplied songs to Pizzicato Five, among them “Arigato We Love You” from Happy End of the World, plus “Bachelor Pad” for the Fantastic Plastic Machine. The duo’s single “Voulez-Vous” reached the U.S. market in 1998, followed at the start of the next year by their debut full-length, All In. Music for Imaginary Films surfaced in early 2000, with several tracks placed in television commercials and series such as The Sopranos. They sustained their yearly release pattern by issuing We Are A&C in 2001.