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Rocktown SPL bio:

Rocktown SPL is the product of Julian Jones aka DJ KING JULIAN: (ar:house founder)

multi-talented: photographer, visual artist, electronic musician, dj

In particular, Rocktown SPL is the alter ego of Julian J. Jones, with original music geared towards car audio / SPL enthusiasts looking for a deeper southern bass sound without all the commercialized hype that can be heard in other music. This brand has originated out of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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DJ Bio:

DJ KING JULIAN: (ar:house founder)

dj king julian

multi-talented: photographer, visual artist, electronic musician, dj

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Available: for festivals, clubs, opening, etc. Travel to San Diego, Los Angeles, NYC, Texas, New Orleans, Chicago, Tennessee, Anywhere around Arkansas.

Places performed:

• Vinos • Plan B (Conway) • Rev Room • Discovery Night Club • Pulse Night Club • The Village (aka Sky Studios) • Club Sway (Little Rock) • Sticky Fingerz • EJ's Eats and Drinks • Juanitas • The Little Rock Art Party • Enjoy Skate Shop • Radio Shack • Dreamland Ballroom

Events performed:

Little Rock Marathon 2008/09/10 • Hot Springs 5k/10k • Arkansas Race For the Cure 2009/2010 • DJ Olympics 2008 • Opened for Raydar and Shaolin • Wolfpack Toad Suck EDM Dance Event 2011

Threw ar:house shows featuring:

DJ Chameleon, SpenceRx, Phillip Dixon, Optimus Krime, Kelley Chumley(Chicago), Donna Smith (DJ Dreamer), Kelly Smith (KFunk), Coach Roebuck (NYC), Jeff House, Mary Smith (Memphis)

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Julian started making music when he was little banging on the old piano his mom bought. Then got into music production while in college after learning about reason 2.5. Couldn't afford the full version, but came across Audio Hijack which gave him 10 minutes to record before adding noise, propellerheads reason allowed 20 minutes of music making but no saving. So without a keyboard, Julian started making music that was very progressive, and up to 10 minutes long, since he had 10 minutes to create a song, and 10 minutes to record it. Time passed and he was able to save for a keyboard and the full version of reason, and that's when his music style began to mature. Taking cue from dj magic mike, techmaster p.e.b., knights of bass and many others, he started with making his own bass music, and then going into other genres until he heard of mark farina. House music became his passion after this girl in college gave him a cd of mark farina.

During his music making phase, he experimented with mixing his own music, by using two computers and a mixer, running reason software on both computers at the same time. And in 2008 he competed in the DJ Olympics at the Rev Room. This is when he met michael lang, DJ Chameleon, who won the competition respectively. After noticing similar styles and interest and future progression goals of wanting to create an environment of purely house music, he and dj chameleon have started AR:HOUSE, arkansas house music group. From then on both have thrown ar:house shows from EJ's the first show, to clubs and restaurants like Union Bistro and Rumba Restaurant, as well as bringing the night time music vibes to the streets in the daylight during Marathons and Social Events like The Hot Springs 5K/10K, The Little Rock Marathon and the Race for the Cure. Julian has played at rev room, rumba, sticky fingerz, the village, pulse, discovery night club, reno's, ej's, starving artist cafe, union bistro, plan b in conway, sway, and on a trolley car (a dj's first) and many other places in and around little rock. He also has a few tracks for sale on junodownload.com and itunes.