London-based electronic musician Jon Hopkins is best known for his 2013 album Immunity - a runaway success of a record that took him all the way to a sold-out gig at Brixton Academy in April, 2015 - but he’s got a CV as long as he is tall. Immunity was his fourth solo album and second Mercury Prize nomination (he was first given the nod for Diamond Mine, a 2011 album he released with Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote), and he’s a celebrated soundtrack composer and record producer, too - working, most notably, on Coldplay’s 2008 album Viva la Vida with Brian Eno.
You’ll know if you heard his sessions for Zane Lowe and Lauren Laverne that Hopkins makes intelligent techno that booms. He brings his warm, expansive sound to Glastonbury for the second year running, and also off the back of an excellent Radio 1 Residency from earlier this year. Glow sticks at the ready.
London-based electronic musician Jon Hopkins is best known for his 2013 album Immunity - a runaway success of a record that took him all the way to a sold-out gig at Brixton Academy in April, 2015 - but he’s got a CV as long as he is tall. Immunity was his fourth solo album and second Mercury Prize nomination (he was first given the nod for Diamond Mine, a 2011 album he released with Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote), and he’s a celebrated soundtrack composer and record producer, too - working, most notably, on Coldplay’s 2008 album Viva la Vida with Brian Eno.
You’ll know if you heard his sessions for Zane Lowe and Lauren Laverne that Hopkins makes intelligent techno that booms. He brings his warm, expansive sound to Glastonbury for the second year running, and also off the back of an excellent Radio 1 Residency from earlier this year. Glow sticks at the ready.
