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Stereogum Monthly Mix: May 2013
A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May's absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you'll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the...
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Hayden Thorpe & Jon Hopkins –“Goodbye Horses” (Q Lazzarus Cover)
Wild Beast's Hayden Thorpe and Jon Hopkins have joined forces to cover Q Lazzarus's classic electro-pop track "Goodbye Horses." While most people know the cut as Buffalo Bill's mirror-dance soundtrack...
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Purity Ring –“Amenamy (Jon Hopkins Remix)”
Earlier this year, the London producer and frequent Brian Eno collaborator Jon Hopkins released his Immunity LP, a prettily translucent house-music that walks the line between dance music and...
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Stereogum Monthly Mix: July 2013
I don't want to bum anybody out, but summer's almost over. With an emphasis on almost, meaning anything can still happen (aside from reclaiming that unbridled feeling of summer's start and infinite...
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Jon Hopkins –“Breathe This Air” (Feat. Purity Ring)
London producer Jon Hopkins and Purity Ring have an active creative relationship. Last month, Hopkins remixed the electronic duo's Shrines track "Amenamy" and he also has a production credit on...
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Natasha Khan & Jon Hopkins –“Garden’s Heart” Video
Following a collaboration with Purity Ring, Jon Hopkins has a new song out with Natasha Khan (bka Bat For Lashes) from the upcoming film How I Live Now for which Hopkins provides the score. The...
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Jon Hopkins & Purity Ring –“Breathe This Air” Video (NSFW)
Earlier this year, the London producer and frequent Brian Eno collaborator Jon Hopkins released Immunity, an album of restrained, architectural house music. After the album was out, Purity Ring's Megan...
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Jon Hopkins –“Collider” Video
The British producer Jon Hopkins released the conceptual dance album Immunity earlier this year, and now director Tom Haines has effectively translated that album's aesthetic into the music-video form....
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The Gummy Awards: Your Top 50 Albums Of 2013
Starting today we're rolling out the winners of the Gummy Awards, Stereogum & Videogum's annual readers' poll. Earlier this month we asked you to vote for 2013's best album, song, music video, new...
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Jon Hopkins –“We Disappear” (New Version Feat. Lulu James)
The instrumental track "We Disappear" was the first song on Immunity, the album of conceptual, leftfield dance music that the British producer (and Brian Eno buddy) Jon Hopkins released last year. He's...
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Jon Hopkins –“We Disappear” (Feat. Lulu James) Video
Jon Hopkins' Immunity gave us some of the most taut and explorative electronic music of 2013. Now he's surprising us again by reworking some of those tracks with vocalists. After a new collaboration...
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Jon Hopkins –“Abandon Window (Moderat Remix)”
Today, the adventurous and thoughtful British electronic producer Jon Hopkins releases the 12" single of his new version of "We Disappear," the one that features the soul singer Lulu James. The single...
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Watch A Trailer For Jon Hopkins’ New EP Asleep Versions
Last year, the British producer Jon Hopkins released Immunity, a confident and sweeping album of what I guess you'd have to call deconstructed dance music. Since then, he's been tinkering with the...
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Jon Hopkins –“Form By Firelight” (Feat. Raphaelle Standell)
Jon Hopkins has spent the past year-and-a-half messing around with tracks from his album, Immunity, whether handing them off to friends to remix or adding new vocals to certain tracks. In a few weeks,...
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Chvrches –“Get Away”
The movie Drive is only three years old, and its soundtrack is magnificent; it's arguably the best thing about the entire movie. But BBC radio host Zane Lowe has taken on the strange, difficult...
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Hear New Jon Hopkins Track In His BBC Essential Mix
Jon Hopkins did a BBC Essential mix last night featuring music from Dan Deacon, Panda Bear, Joy Orbison, and an unreleased track of his own. The track is called "Interlude" and shows up a few minutes...
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Jon Hopkins –“I Remember” (Yeasayer Cover) &“Open Eye Signal (George...
The British producer Jon Hopkins makes finely sculpted conceptual dance music, and he's recently put together a mix for the Late Night Tales series, and he's included a few brand-new tracks in the mix,...
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Hear Four Tet’s Shelved Remix Of Coldplay’s “Fix You”
Jon Hopkins is the latest artist to get his own BBC Radio 1 Residency show, and tonight he broughout along Four Tet to serve as his co-host. While there, the producer shared a remix of Coldplay's "Fix...
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Jon Hopkins Scoring Hamlet Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
Listening to the lush glitch of Jon Hopkins 2013 record Immunity, I remember thinking the music sounded like the soundtrack to a tragedy or a horror movie. Am I a prophetess? No, but Hopkins is scoring...
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Wild Beasts –“Woebegone Wanderers II”
Earlier tonight, Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe co-hosted Jon Hopkins' BBC Radio 1 Residency, and he debuted an unreleased Wild Beasts song called "Woebegone Wanderers II." The track, which was recorded...
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Disclosure –“Magnets (Jon Hopkins Remix)” (Feat. Lorde)
Now that Disclosure's Lorde-featuring "Magnets" is an official single, it's getting the remix treatment from a bunch of different artists. So far, A-Trak and the duo themselves have contributed remixes...
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Jon Hopkins –“Emerald Rush” Video
British producer Jon Hopkins broke through in a big way with 2013's stunning Immunity. Since then, he's reworked his own songs, collaborated with other artists, and scored a production of Hamlet. But...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
Music videos constitute an art form, but they're also basically advertising. They were created so that we'd want to buy music. That's their point. It's why they exist. So I don't know why I'm annoyed...
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Jon Hopkins –“Everything Connected”
English producer Jon Hopkins has released another animated music video in anticipation for his new album Singularity, and this time it’s a lot more abstract. In keeping with the similar trippy vibe of...
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10 Unique Acts To See At Primavera 2018
The lineup of Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival is always stacked. It's one of the best-booked festivals in the world, always boasting an impressive and diverse array of headliners atop a sprawling...
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Jon Hopkins –“Singularity” Video
Back in May, English producer Jon Hopkins released one of the best albums of 2018 so far, Singularity. Today, we see the music video for its title track, which joins "Emerald Rush" among the visual...
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Jon Hopkins –“Feel First Life” Video
The UK producer Jon Hopkins makes lush, considered mutations of dance music, and he released the impressive album Singularity earlier this year. Hopkins' music is good for a lot of things, and one of...
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The 10 Best Electronic Albums Of 2018
Over the summer, I found myself at Hammerstein Ballroom surrounded by more than 2,000 ecstatic Vocaloid fans, each equipped with a color-changing wand (something between a lightsaber and those conical...
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Jon Hopkins –“Scene Suspended”
Jon Hopkins' last album, Singularity, came out back in 2018. At that point, it had been five years since Hopkins' preceding release, and Singularity was met with the kind of excitement that usually...
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Jon Hopkins –“Singing Bowl (Ascension)”
With most of us currently stuck in our homes, we need ways to stay sane. One way that a lot of people are trying lately is meditation. And for those of us who have no idea how to will our minds into a...
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Jon Hopkins –“Dawn Chorus” (Thom Yorke Cover)
For Radiohead fans, “Dawn Chorus” was already one of those mythological compositions — mentioned by Thom Yorke as far back as 2009, a lingering prospect for subsequent albums, a recurring phrase when...
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Jon Hopkins –“Wintergreen” (Brian & Roger Eno Cover)
In December, Jon Hopkins shared a cover of Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus.” As it turns out, that was just the first taste of Piano Versions, a new covers EP out next week. Today, the English producer and...
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Jon Hopkins –“Sit Around The Fire” (Feat. Ram Dass & East Forest)
Jon Hopkins has announced a new album called Music For Psychedelic Treatment, his first full-length since 2018’s Singularity. The album was inspired in part by Tayos Caves in Ecuador, where Hopkins...
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Jon Hopkins –“Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves”&“Deep In The Glowing Heart”
Jon Hopkins announced Music For Psychedelic Therapy, a beat-less album that lies somewhere between classical music, ambient, and drone, last month. We’ve already heard the meditative eight-minute track...
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Jon Hopkins, Kelly Lee Owens, Sultan + Shepard, & Jerro –“To Feel Again / Trois”
You don’t see too many dance-producer posse cuts — or, at least, you don’t see too many dance-producer posse cuts that are billed as posse cuts. But a new single brings together the talents of five...
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The Number Ones: Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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