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Artist: Jon Hopkins
Album: Insides
Label: Double Six/Domino
Playtime: 48:24 min
Genre: Electronic
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Rip date: 2009-04-29
Street date: 2009-05-05
Size: 72.49 MB
Type: Advance
Quality: 196 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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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 labeled 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 contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor, lo-fi
folkster King Creosote and musical bluebloods Coldplay, have all called upon
the 28-year-old LondonerÆs handiwork as a producer and composer.
On Insides, his Domino debut, Hopkins showcases an intriguing musical
aesthetic to brilliant effect. Insides is about juxtaposition: natural,
arcane textures welded to pulsing, hypnotic rhythms, beautiful acoustic
melodies set against jarring bass. The music is reminiscent of the beautiful
melodies and harsh dirty beats of other British artists like Four Tet,
Squarepusher, Burial, and Aphex Twin. Above all, Insides is an audacious
album which boasts a magical aura all of its own.
HopkinsÆ talents caught the ears of Brian Eno, who enlisted him to work on
his Another Day on Earth album and most recently on ColdplayÆs Viva la Vida.
In fact, Coldplay were so taken with HopkinsÆ music, the band asked him to
rework the track ôLight Through the Veinsö (from Insides) to bookend their
album. The pairing eventually led to an invitation to Hopkins to join the
band on its 2008 USA, European and Japanese tour, both as an opening act and
pre-show DJ.
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01. The Wider Sun ( 2:34)
02. Vessel ( 4:41)
03. Insides ( 4:38)
04. Wire ( 4:41)
05. Colour Eye ( 5:11)
06. Light Through The Veins ( 9:18)
07. The Low Places ( 6:34)
08. Small Memory ( 1:40)
09. A Drifting Up ( 6:27)
10. Autumn Hill ( 2:40)
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