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Born August 15, 1979, Kingston, Greater London is an English music producer, musician, DJ who performs dance and electronic background music.
At the age of seven or eight, he first heard electronic music on the radio in the form of early house. His fascination with bands such as Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys brought his attention to synthesizers. In adolescence, he expands the genre range of musical preferences to styles such as acid house, hardcore, grunge. Discovers such performers as Acen, Seefeel, Plaid. At the age of 14, John had his first Amiga 500 computer, on which he began to program his MIDI material. With the funds received by winning the piano competition, he buys a low-quality Roland synthesizer, on which he writes his first full-fledged electronic compositions.
When John was 12 years old, he joined the youth department of the Royal College of Music in London. Finding inspiration in the music of Ravel and Stravinsky, he wins the selection competition with a performance with the orchestra of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major. Having tried himself as a classical pianist, Hopkins decides that academic performance is too formal and not worth spending full time on perfecting it.
At the age of 17, after graduating from college, Hopkins, accompanying his fellow guitarist Leo Abrahams to audition for Imogen Heap, also decides to take part in the casting for the role of keyboardist. Both are part of the group, with which they toured throughout 1998.
In 1999 he signed a contract with the prestigious London label Just music as a session musician and solo artist. Opalescent's first album receives positive reviews from prestigious UK publications. The second album Contact Note, released on the same label, was interpreted by Hopkins as underground, but the underground community reacted coldly to it. This failure was the impetus for the beginning of a production career.
Leo Abrahams introduces Johns Hopkins to ambient artist and music producer Brian Eno. A long-term collaboration is formed, as a result of which John Hopkins joins the recording of Brian Eno's album Another Day on Earth, produces the King Crisot record Bombshell, and takes part in writing tracks with DJ and composer David Holmes for his Holy Pictures album. In 2007, Brian Eno invites Hopkins to take part in the recording of Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the fourth album by Coldplay. After a successful collaboration, John Hopkins embarks on a six-month tour with Coldplay in support of the album, in which he opens the show with his performances.
In 2008, John Hopkins took on the music for Wayne McGregor's ballet Genesis. After a stormy critical reaction to Genesis in April 2008, the ballet went on tour until 2009.
On May 5, 2009 John Hopkins is recording his third studio album with Domino Records Insides. The album is ranked 15th in the Billboard magazine rating in the category of dance electronics albums, and the online magazine PopMatters lists it in the top ten "electronic" albums of 2009.
In June 2009, Brian Eno invites Johns Hopkins to perform his music at the Luminous Festival at the Sydney Opera House. A few weeks before the end of the festival, Ino invites Hopkins to team up with him, Karl Hyde of Underworld and the experimental jazz trio The Necks to form the impromptu band "Pure Scenius", which will conclude the festival. Together they create a musical improvisation on prepared themes for an hour and a half, which concludes the festival. The experiment called "Pure Scenius" was repeated at the Brighton Festival when it was led by Brian Eno.
In 2009, Hopkins reunites with Brian Eno and Leo Abrahams to work on the soundtrack to Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones. In early 2010, Hopkins wrote the soundtrack for Eric Lyne's short film Rob and Valentine in Scotland, which received positive reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. In the same year, Gareth Edwards commissioned John Hopkins to write the soundtrack for his sci-fi film Monsters.
Johns Hopkins' fourth studio album Immunity was released on June 4, 2013 via Domino Records. The record was recorded at Hopkins' London studio using his own effects and natural room acoustics. According to Mixmag, "Immunity is an album of organic techno and exquisite mini-symphonies." The album peaked at # 13 in the United States on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart. In Britain, Immunity was nominated for the Mercury Prize for Best Album. Pitchfork Media described the work as "An amazingly intuitive, sensual, compelling electronic record," while MusicOMH called the album a "modern classic."
On November 10, 2014, John Hopkins will release the EP Asleep Versions, which contains, according to Domino Records, "four slow-motion fairytale reimaginations" of four tracks from the Immunity album. The album introduces vocal modifications by Raphaelle Standell-Preston from the Braids and King Crezot. Cover artwork by Robert Hunter.
