Jon Hopkins
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Musician
A.S. Fanning Talks To Contact Music Ahead Of The Release Of His Latest Album, You Should Go Mad [Exclusive]
By Staff Writer in Music / Festivals on 06 November 2020
A.S Fanning talks exclusively to Contact Music ahead of his album release.
Ahead of the release of his second album Stephen Fanning talks exclusively to Contact Music about his music, his inspirations and his aspirations. The Dubliner, formally of Porn Trauma and The Last Tycoons, follows up his very well recieved solo debut from 2017, Second Life, with more brooding, gothically tilted creations. Due out on November 13th Fanning's latest release has already given up it's lead title track, You Should Go Mad, and if that's anything to go by we're in for a treat.
For those who may be new to your music, how best would you describe your sound?
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Jon Hopkins - Opalescent Album Review
By Andy Peterson in Music Reviews on 24 August 2016
It's hard with the benefit of plenty of hindsight to perceive the early noughties as anything but a musical wasteland, an almost perma-nightmare inhabited by Nu-metal, Blink 182 and nerdy post-interesting guff from the likes of Turin Brakes and Kings of Convenience.
The man we now know as Jon Hopkins - whose 2013 release Immunity won him a Mercury Prize nomination - was barely 20 at the time, a former piano student at London's Royal College of Music
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Jordan Dowling's Top 10 Albums Of 2013
By Staff Writer in Music / Festivals on 23 December 2013
In reverse order, here's Jordan's top albums of 2013.
Jordan Dowling presents his top ten album favourites from the past year.
Nils Frahm 'Spaces' - 'Spaces' is a presentation of Nils' spellbinding live show and it is as good a presentation of his genius as you could hope for; a breath-taking journey launched from the most tender of foundations. Tapped pianos lead to reverb-washed synth chords and occasional dance motifs in an utterly organic manner.
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Andy Peterson's Top 10 Albums Of 2013
By Staff Writer in Music / Festivals on 23 December 2013
Andy Peterson reviews the year's best dance and electronica releases.
Bonobo 'Late Night Tales' - With the DJ mix compilation more tired than Nigella Lawson's vanity mirror, LNT are still working miracles in the genre against the odds, mostly by avoiding the usual suspects. Simon Green channels all things unorthodox on this, the year's best from the stable.
Rae & Christian 'Mercury Rising' - 2013 seemed to be the year the chill out kings came back (we also saw releases from Nightmares on Wax and Morcheeba), but the veteran duo managed to sound both cool and now on 'Mercury Rising', enlisting as able helpers Sam Genders, Mark Foster and, the king of laid back himself, Jazzy Jeff.
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Hayley Fox's Top Albums Of 2013
By Staff Writer in Music / Festivals on 23 December 2013
Hayley Fox tells us her top 10 albums of 2013
Darkside 'Psychic' - After an EP in 2011, Darkside released their debut album this year. The duo - the project of Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington - gave as good as they got on 'Psychic', honing their talents as individual musicians. Wonderfully crisp textures ride over its entirety, creating a rich, confident ambience.
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'How I Live Now': Natasha Khan Movie Soundtrack 'Garden Heart' Released [Video]
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 03 September 2013
The Bat For Lashes singer has teamed up with Jon Hopkins to create the tear-jerker track.
Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan and music producer Jon Hopkins have joined their creative forces to bring the official soundtrack song for upcoming war thriller, How I Live Now. Jon Hopkins had been working on the Kevin Macdonald-directed film's soundtrack when he decided to invite the exquisite vocals of Khan.
With an opening akin to The Stone Roses' 'I Wanna Be Adored,' the track is built around a softly thrumming bassline; a beating heart-style rhythm that keeps pace whilst Khan's ever-ethereal, mournful vocals sing of being "far away" from someone.
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Natasha Khan & Jon Hopkins - Garden's Heart Video
Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes) and music producer Jon Hopkins have collaborated on 'Garden's Heart'; a new song set to feature on the soundtrack to Saoirse Ronan's gripping new drama film 'How I Live Now'.
The video for the track begins with a clip from the movie, where Saoirse's character Daisy gets split up from her boyfriend by soldiers during the onslaught of the Third World War. She is then seen running a bath and tending to her cuts and bruises miserably, while appearing to visualise plants and lily pads in the tub, taking her back to her favourite countryside spot where she and her lover would talk and go skinny dipping. The song has a slow and steady rhythm, almost like beating heart, and Natasha's vocals are as charming and evocative as ever with the power to reduce any listener to tears even without the depressing subject matter of the movie.
Jon Hopkins had been working on the rest of the film score when he decided to enlist the talents of Natasha - a decision that was enthusiastically backed by director Kevin Macdonald. Bat For Lashes released her third album last year entitled 'The Haunted Man' and is currently on her US headline tour supporting it.
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Jon Hopkins Announces New Single 'Open Eye Signal' Released On June 3rd 2013
Posted on24 April 2013
Jon Hopkins, Music From The Film Monsters Album Review
By Andrew Lockwood in Music Reviews on 13 January 2011
'What's that coming over the hill, is it a.....' Monsters is very much the creation of its director, Gareth Edward's. He devised its concept, wrote it, shot it and did the effects. Although produced on a shoestring (And they probably couldn't have afforded the Private Ear if they'd wanted him) the soundtrack duties were obviously one job too many for the multi talented creator of this British Sci-Fi Thriller.
Telling the story of two Americans trying to make it to their homeland across the 'Infected Zone' travelling through Guatemala, Belize and the Jungles of Mexico whilst avoiding tentacled alien life forms was never going to be an easy journey. The film, billed as an amalgam of Lost In Translation meets District 9, has however, despite its meagre budget, garnered a lot of positive critical acclaim.
Jon Hopkins, the London based purveyor of melodic electronica, may not have been an obvious choice but the results have largely justified the decision. Hopkins has previously released 3 solo studio albums and has most recently been collaborating with Brian Eno (Small Craft On A Milk White Sea) as well as the iconic film director David Lynch. His work with other artists have included Imogen Heap, folk-tronica group Tunng and Coldplay, so plenty to draw on. Couple with that Jonathan Julian Hopkins started playing piano at 5 and studied at the Royal College Of Music from the age of 12 and you'd be forgiven for thinking there was no other choice.
Jon Hopkins, Insides Album Review
By Pablo Roffey in Music Reviews on 29 June 2009
Review of Jon Hopkins album Insides.