Arling & Cameron

Back in the early nineties, a few dj's in Amsterdam were re-discovering the campy, kitschy but wonderful sounds of Bert Kaempfert, Sergio Mendes and Herb Alpert. These records were played at so-callad Popcorn parties, by dj's Eddy de Clercq (a Belgian dj, who knew these sounds from home) and the Easy Aloha's. Sharp-dressing Richard Cameron was one of the organisers of these parties, when he and friend Gerry Arling had their own go at these easy listening sounds, they called it Easy Tune. And the rest is history. For about three years, Easy Tune was the hippest music around. Arling & Cameron made music that was used in big movies (The Spy Who Shagged Me), tv-series (Sopranos) and commercials. They won prestigious prizes and played all around the globe. Then the hype wore off, the first "musical differences" popped up and Easy Tune faded away. But everything bounces back, and so the genre, the dj's and the music is resurrected. On April 14, Amsterdam Paradiso offers a flashback to the Popcorn days, and a triple Best Of-cd of Arling & Cameron has just been released. French movie-soundtracks from the sixties were a big influence on the duo, as you can hear in these 3 tracks featuring female vocals.

Arling & Cameron (featuring Fay Lovksy) - Le Flic et La Fille (from Music for Imaginary Films, 2000)
Arling & Cameron (featuring Olga Jankovski) - Voulez-vous? (from All-In, 1997)
Arling & Cameron (featuring Amahi Mas) - Pourquoi-pas? (from Easy Tune Volume 1, 1995)