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Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. As such his two albums have seen him labelled by the likes of ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator while an impressive sweep of artists from Herbie Hancock to David Holmes, not to mention ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor, lo-fi folkster King Creosote and musical bluebloods Coldplay, have all called upon the 28-year-old Londoner’s handiwork as a producer and composer.
Which goes some way to explain why his new album Insides is his first in four years. Hopkins’s aesthetic is perpetually intriguing. He transcends genres, melding digital coldness with subtle, bucolic textures; veering from skewed elegance to strange, unsettling depths. Insides’ artfully constructed, unparalleled palette of rhythmic loops and treated piano can be partly explained by Hopkins’ unusual adolescence; he was a child piano prodigy before discovering the bleeps and beeps of dance music. In his west London bedroom he balanced a teen obsession with acid house, early hardcore and grunge alongside weekend piano tutorials at the Royal College of Music. At 16 he flitted between the twilight stoner world of drum‘n’bass pirate radio and German label Recycle or Die’s hypnotic electronica, and the classical discipline of playing a Ravel piano concerto. H
Which goes some way to explain why his new album Insides is his first in four years. Hopkins’s aesthetic is perpetually intriguing. He transcends genres, melding digital coldness with subtle, bucolic textures; veering from skewed elegance to strange, unsettling depths. Insides’ artfully constructed, unparalleled palette of rhythmic loops and treated piano can be partly explained by Hopkins’ unusual adolescence; he was a child piano prodigy before discovering the bleeps and beeps of dance music. In his west London bedroom he balanced a teen obsession with acid house, early hardcore and grunge alongside weekend piano tutorials at the Royal College of Music. At 16 he flitted between the twilight stoner world of drum‘n’bass pirate radio and German label Recycle or Die’s hypnotic electronica, and the classical discipline of playing a Ravel piano concerto. H
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Shoutbox
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onitorment wrote:
You were inspiring yesterday in San Francisco - I'm in deep love with you're sounds!
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gwelb wrote:
Wire is just a driving force of pure awesome; Insides is a little less accessible than earlier work but no less grand for it.
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freezep0px wrote:
Seven Gulps of Air is BRUTAL.
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gEEEERa wrote:
i love your work, good sir
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bethanybeez wrote:
you are THE man;) thanks for the music.
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kbgonzo wrote:
Even saiyng 'I love this music' wouldn't be enough. Jon, u're the best!
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Sebastian_17 wrote:
struggling to get inside the insides album
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jeroen____ wrote:
Thursday Oct 22, 2009 in Amsterdam http://www.last.fm/event/1169633+ADE%3A++Oren+Ambarchi+-+Robbie+Avenaim+-+Jan+Jelinek+-+Jon+Hopkins+-+Davide+Rossi+
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Mixtape2 wrote:
the new album is different, and excellent
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Imaginary_ wrote:
you're a genius, thanks for coming to Katowice :)
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grecoroman wrote:
disappointing third album
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PinbackMontana wrote:
pure gold at pluto festival last friday
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frodeknutsen wrote:
Video from the ICA gig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Rcet8BjdM
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matthewgregory wrote:
Brilliant. Opalescent and The Fourth State were brilliant, the former being the greatest. I cannot wait to get my hands on Contact Note.
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frodeknutsen wrote:
I still want the tracks he plays live nowadays. I guess those will be released on his next album (sometime in 4 years?)...
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Bln-Fm wrote:
Win Tickets for Jon Hopkins @ Leisure System: http://www.bln.fm/2009/09/leisure-system-2/
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FilmoreHolmes wrote:
There's a dope Jon Hopkins track riding shotgun on this Chocolate Grinder mixtape.
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kbgonzo wrote:
in my humble opinion he was the best artist in Katowice 2 days ago, his music is completely different when he makes it live, great, awesome!
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pimmka wrote:
Awesome gig in Katowice last Saturday! Beautiful evening :) Thank you! :) ♥
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matthewgregory wrote:
Holy damn. Quality shit. Bat-fucking crazy-shitting good.
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Events
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illectricity festival '09 (closing night)
Dvorana Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
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Dec
11
State-X New Forms 2009
Paard van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands
44 shouts
| 141 attendees
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Dec
12
G14 / Dag in de Branding meets State X New Forms
Paard van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands
8 shouts
| 10 attendees
News
Imogen Heap Remix out now
18 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/jonhopkins
I just did a remix for my friend Imogen Heap's amazing new single First Train Home. It's out now to download. The idea behind this remix was to expose the beauty of the vocal, and strip away everythin. …
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