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▀▀▀▄ ARTIST.......: John Arnold ▄▀▀▀
▀▄▄ TITLE.......: Sparkle ▄▄▀
▀█▄ SOURCE.....: Vinyl ▄█▀
▄█▀ STYLE......: Techno ▀█▄
▄▄█▀▀ LABEL.......: Fragile Detroit ▀▀█▄▄
▄█▀▀ CAT.NR........: FRG-18 ▀▀█▄
▀ QUALITY.........: VBRkbps/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo ▀
▄▀ URL...............: www.transmat.com ▀▄
▄ RIP.DATE...........: Oct-28-2005 ▄
█ LENGTH............: 16:36 min █
▄ ■▄ SIZE.............: 25,5 MB ▄■ ▄
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██▓▓ When I make music, I feel like it's coming ██▓▓
██▓▓ from my soul. It's a gift. I'm pretty much ██▓▓
██▓▓ the doorway for a greater purpose, so the ██▓▓
██▓▓ more music I write, it's just something else ██▓▓
██▓▓ speaking through me, and the more knowledge ██▓▓
██▓▓ I learned, the more eloquent my voice was, ██▓▓
██▓▓ the more I could express that gift," John ██▓▓
██▓▓ Arnold, Detroit 2002. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ Detroit resident John Arnold is currently ██▓▓
██▓▓ working on a full-length album for Ubiquity, ██▓▓
██▓▓ channeling his eclectic musical influences ██▓▓
██▓▓ in a forward thinking electronic style and ██▓▓
██▓▓ collaborating with peers from the motor ██▓▓
██▓▓ city. Multi-talented Mr. Arnold is equally ██▓▓
██▓▓ happy playing guitar with his acoustic jazz ██▓▓
██▓▓ combo Blackman & Arnold or, as a club DJ, ██▓▓
██▓▓ spinning jazz, broken, techno and house, or ██▓▓
██▓▓ in the studio making beats. His interest in ██▓▓
██▓▓ music started early on. He took piano ██▓▓
██▓▓ classes before his tenth birthday but ██▓▓
██▓▓ eventually grew bored as he discovered rock ██▓▓
██▓▓ 'n' roll and, like most young kids, ██▓▓
██▓▓ fantasized about being in a band. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ After a brief stint with a drum kit Arnold ██▓▓
██▓▓ took up the guitar in his teens and this ██▓▓
██▓▓ became his primary instrument. "I loved ██▓▓
██▓▓ everything, but I think at first, like a lot ██▓▓
██▓▓ of young kids, I was really into rock 'n' ██▓▓
██▓▓ roll music," he recalls. When his parents ██▓▓
██▓▓ gave him his first album, a copy of Stevie ██▓▓
██▓▓ Wonder's 1970s opus "Songs In The Key Of ██▓▓
██▓▓ Life," Arnold was introduced to world of ██▓▓
██▓▓ soul music. "As I got older, I had started ██▓▓
██▓▓ discovering different music - I really ██▓▓
██▓▓ started to like jazz, funk music and world ██▓▓
██▓▓ music." Arnold may have majored in jazz ██▓▓
██▓▓ studies at Michigan's Wayne State University ██▓▓
██▓▓ but, as a hip-hop head (and aspiring ██▓▓
██▓▓ breakdancer), he'd long been curious about ██▓▓
██▓▓ electronic production - ever since hearing ██▓▓
██▓▓ Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" as a pre-teen. "I ██▓▓
██▓▓ think that's when I first started to get a ██▓▓
██▓▓ real interest in the electronic sound, and ██▓▓
██▓▓ I've always tried to make a connection with ██▓▓
██▓▓ what I do now and my childhood. I remember ██▓▓
██▓▓ even when I was doing heavy metal and rock I ██▓▓
██▓▓ was using drum machines to make tracks. It ██▓▓
██▓▓ wasn't necessarily for the dance club, but ██▓▓
██▓▓ it was experimental music that involved drum ██▓▓
██▓▓ machines." ██▓▓
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██▓▓ The precocious instrumentalist was laying ██▓▓
██▓▓ down his own compositions as early as 13. "I ██▓▓
██▓▓ think I peaked at 16 or 17," he jokes. ██▓▓
██▓▓ "Sometimes I break out the old tapes that I ██▓▓
██▓▓ used to do when I was a kid and it's ██▓▓
██▓▓ tremendous!" In 1996 Arnold formed the band ██▓▓
██▓▓ Jazzhead and began to acquaint himself with ██▓▓
██▓▓ Detroit's electronic fraternity. "My whole ██▓▓
██▓▓ vision with the group was to really try and ██▓▓
██▓▓ emulate what DJs were doing, but do it live. ██▓▓
██▓▓ We'd bring in a lot of the great DJs in town ██▓▓
██▓▓ who'd play with us before - Alton Miller ██▓▓
██▓▓ came, DJ Bone... All the Detroit guys would ██▓▓
██▓▓ come through and play and it'd be a great ██▓▓
██▓▓ experience, 'cause we'd have this jazz band ██▓▓
██▓▓ and then we'd have the DJs as well, so it ██▓▓
██▓▓ was a really well-rounded educational thing ██▓▓
██▓▓ about music, but people dug it 'cause it was ██▓▓
██▓▓ dance music as well." ██▓▓
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██▓▓ In this way Arnold met future supporters - ██▓▓
██▓▓ Carl Craig, who invited him to perform his ██▓▓
██▓▓ first-ever live electronic gig at the ██▓▓
██▓▓ inaugural Detroit Electronic Music Festival ██▓▓
██▓▓ (DEMF), and Derrick May, who picked up his ██▓▓
██▓▓ Sparkle EP for Transmat Records' sister ██▓▓
██▓▓ label, Fragile. In 2002 Arnold released a ██▓▓
██▓▓ second Transmat EP titled "Four Minutes?" ██▓▓
██▓▓ and a new 12" single on Ubiquity records ██▓▓
██▓▓ called "We're Not." Meanwhile, Arnold has ██▓▓
██▓▓ lent his talents to others - jamming on John ██▓▓
██▓▓ Beltran's "Aztec Girl," which was licensed ██▓▓
██▓▓ by British drum 'n' bass innovator LTJ Bukem ██▓▓
██▓▓ for Good Looking's Earth 4 compilation, and ██▓▓
██▓▓ on records by the Detroit Escalator Co and ██▓▓
██▓▓ Recloose. Arnold is also a member of the ██▓▓
██▓▓ "world music" five-piece Blackman & Arnold. ██▓▓
██▓▓ "It's a lot of different world music sounds. ██▓▓
██▓▓ It's all acoustic. We do Brazilian music, ██▓▓
██▓▓ Afro-Cuban music and Latin music, and all in ██▓▓
██▓▓ a jazz setting, and so it's highly ██▓▓
██▓▓ improvisational, but it's really cool." ██▓▓
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██▓▓ Within electronic music circles formally ██▓▓
██▓▓ trained artists often struggle to reconcile ██▓▓
██▓▓ their academic backgrounds and the ██▓▓
██▓▓ unconventional DIY ethos of club culture, ██▓▓
██▓▓ yet Arnold's education has expanded, not ██▓▓
██▓▓ limited, his imagination. "When I make ██▓▓
██▓▓ music, I feel like it's coming from my soul. ██▓▓
██▓▓ It's a gift. I'm pretty much the doorway for ██▓▓
██▓▓ a greater purpose, so the more music I ██▓▓
██▓▓ write, it's just something else speaking ██▓▓
██▓▓ through me, and the more knowledge I ██▓▓
██▓▓ learned, the more eloquent my voice was, the ██▓▓
██▓▓ more I could express that gift." ██▓▓
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██▓▓ This outlook forms the basis of Arnold's ██▓▓
██▓▓ progressive manifesto. "I'm very interested ██▓▓
██▓▓ in making tracks that can easily be played ██▓▓
██▓▓ in the dance club and that people can dance ██▓▓
██▓▓ to, but I want to use that as a tool to ██▓▓
██▓▓ express different ideas that people might ██▓▓
██▓▓ not necessarily be trying in terms of ██▓▓
██▓▓ different harmonic ideas and time signatures ██▓▓
██▓▓ and rhythmic ideas - like maybe using 7/4 as ██▓▓
██▓▓ opposed to four-on-the-floor all the time or ██▓▓
██▓▓ doing 15/4 or just doing different ideas, so ██▓▓
██▓▓ almost educating people to another level of ██▓▓
██▓▓ music, but doing that in a way so it's still ██▓▓
██▓▓ a party and everybody is dancing. ██▓▓
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