A.D.O.R.

A.D.O.R., born Eddie Castellanos, is an American hip hop artist who emerged in the early 1990s New York rap scene. He is best known for two singles released on Atlantic Records: «Let It All Hang Out» (1992), produced by Pete Rock, and «One for the Trouble» (1994), produced by Marley Marl. Working with two of the era's most respected boom-bap producers placed A.D.O.R. firmly within the golden-age New York sound of dense sampling and jazzy, soulful loops.

While A.D.O.R.'s own recorded output remained relatively small, his catalog left a lasting mark through sampling. «One for the Trouble» in particular became a much-sourced record, most famously providing the vocal hook for Fatboy Slim's 1998 remix of Roger «Wildchild» MacKenzie's «Renegade Master», which turned into a major crossover club hit in the UK. That afterlife through sampling and remix culture is arguably what introduced A.D.O.R. to a much wider international audience than his original releases reached.

Today A.D.O.R. is remembered less as a chart act and more as a figure whose work sits at an interesting crossroads of early-90s East Coast hip hop and the big-beat/dance remix scene of the late 1990s.