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'''Jordan Arts''' (born 1988) is a New Zealand pop keyboard player and programming specialist and member (with [[Sam McCarthy]]) of the duo [[Kids of 88]]. |
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==Early life=+ |
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Arts was brought up in Auckland in the suburb of [[Onehunga]]. He was educated at [[St Peter's College, Auckland|St Peter's College]]. Arts and McCarthy met at St Peter's and quickly realised that they were on the same wavelength. They were in the same English class. McCarthy has said: "As an icrbreaking exercise we were told to bring in our favourite song. Everyone brought in [[Limp Bizkit]], but the thing that linked Jordan and myself is that we were wanky enough to bring in [[Jimmy Hendrix]] songs. We were both trying to be as cool as possible so we rummaged through our parents' CD collection as opposed to our own".<ref name="Anderson">Vicki Anderson, "Kids of 88", ''The Press'', 13 August 2010, p. 14.</ref> With McCarthy, David Wong, Graham Scherer and Michael Pomare, Arts was a member of "Incursa", a St Peter's College band which won the [[Smokefreerockquest]] in 2004<ref>[http://www.smokefreerockquest.co.nz/previous/winner/04 Smokefreerockquest past winners]</ref>. |
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==Career== |
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Arts and McCarthy later formed [[Kids of 88]].<ref name="KidsOK">Tom Fitzsimons, "The kids are alright", ''Dominion Post'', 12 Aug 2010, p. 3.</ref> In releasing the first Kids of 88 album, [[Sugarpills]], McCarthy said that the duo tried to produce a variety of material rather than just the familiarly slutty "[[My House (song)|My House]]" and "[[Just a Little Bit (Kids of 88 song)|Just A Little Bit]]".<ref name="KidsOK"/> Their style is broadly a fusion of [[electro-pop]] and 1980's style [[dance music]]. They describe it as "a cross between a late 80's police drama intro theme and a sophisticated [[super hussy]]".<ref name="Anderson"/> A reviewer has said "while reminiscent of early 80s [[synth pop]], they aren't a direct copy of their antecedents. There's also a touch of 2010 [[punk]] swagger and [[Adrenaline (album)|adrenaline]], where dance can't ignore what's been achieved in [[R&B]] and [[hip-hop]]".<ref>Tom Cardy, "Album of the Week", ''Dominion Post'', 26 August 2010, Edtn 2, p. 11.</ref> McCarthy and Arts produced the album themselves and worked with a simple technical set-up out of a bedroom.<ref>Jule Scherer, "Keeping it real", ''The Southland Times'', 21 August 2010, p. 1.</ref> As far as their respective roles are concerned, McCarthy has described himself as as "more of a classic songwriter" with Arts "hunched over computer, a technical, stumble-across-aloop, get-inthere-and-make-some-beats kind of guy".<ref name="KidsOK"/> |
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==Notes== |
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[[Category:1988 births]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:New Zealand rock musicians]] |
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[[Category:New Zealand songwriters]] |
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[[Category:People from Auckland]] |
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[[Category:Former students of St Peter's College, Auckland]] |
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