Along with serving as the opening act on Coldplay's 2008 world tour, he composed music for Entity, a piece by choreographer Wayne McGregor that was performed worldwide.ĭuring this time, Hopkins also worked on his own music, and released his third solo album, Insides, in May 2009. That year, Eno invited Hopkins to work on Coldplay's 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, on which he played various keyboards and co-produced several tracks with Eno. Around this time, Hopkins also began another extended creative relationship with King Creosote, producing the Scottish singer/songwriter's 2007 album Bombshells. It gained the respect of Brian Eno, who recruited Hopkins to play keys on his 2005 album Another Day on Earth, beginning a long-running collaboration between the two.

His next album, 2004's Contact Note, had a more cinematic feel and featured vocals by Heap as well as Lisa Lindley-Jones. He signed to Just Music in 2001, and recorded his debut album, Opalescent, while working part-time as a studio session musician in Wembley. During his teens, he started making acid house and drum'n'bass, using the money he won from piano competitions to buy himself synths and recording gear.Īfter leaving school, Hopkins joined Imogen Heap's band as a keyboardist and toured with her throughout 1998. Along with his fascination with the works of Ravel and Stravinsky, he also fell in love with electronic music at a young age and was a fan of synth pop acts like Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys. Growing up in Wimbledon, Hopkins was a gifted child pianist who studied piano at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music for five years.

He then embraced meditative music with 2021's Music for Psychedelic Therapy. Immunity (2013) and Singularity (2018), two intense, ambitious sets of spiritually minded techno and ambient tracks, were among the decade's most lauded electronic albums. Initially gaining exposure through his work with Brian Eno, Coldplay, and King Creosote beginning in the mid-2000s, Hopkins gradually found his voice as a solo artist, blending intricately crafted beats with serene, meditative textures. Jon Hopkins is a classically trained composer and electronic musician from England whose solo and collaborative works, including deeply cerebral ambient techno recordings and immersive film scores, have received widespread acclaim as well as Grammy and Mercury Prize nominations.

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