Jon Hopkins - Light Through the Veins

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 24 Apr, 2009.

Got a 12" here by Jon Hopkins which is a big epic feelgood electronica tune that will have you busting out your lighters and waving them in the air. It's super silky melodic stuff that keeps building. It's a nice heartwarming tune. Brett thinks this is the sound of going on a bike ride into the countryside in the summer. It's super chilled polished stuff, all shiny and sparkling production. 'Light Through the Veins' comes with remixes from David Holmes and Ewan Pearson.

‘Insides’ is Jon Hopkins’ first album in four years and debut for Double
Six. the album is about strange contexts: natural, arcane textures welded to
uneasy rhythms. Beautiful acoustic melodies set against jarring bass. It’s an
audacious record with a modernist lustre and magical aura all of its own.

At an epic nine minutes in length, ‘Light Through The Veins’ is a work of
classic, hypnotic electronica. It draws the listener in with each pure, serpentine
note, rises to a propulsive, euphoric climax, before finally dissolving into an ending
of heartrending beauty and sadness. In fact, Coldplay were so taken with ‘Light
Through The Veins’ they used a reworked version to bookend last year's bestselling
‘Viva La Vida’ and invited the 28-year-old Londoner to spend the last six months
of 2008 opening their live shows across the USA and Europe.

The 12” release is backed with a remix from one of Electronic music’s most
respected producers and DJs, Ewan Pearson, who has delivered a 15 minute
future balearic classic. The release also features legendary DJ, musician and
composer David Holmes’ remix – a krautrocking, psychedelic jam from outer
space.

Jon Hopkins has co-written and co-produced the soundtrack for the forthcoming
Peter Jackson film, ‘The Lovely Bones’, an adaptation of the book written by
Alice Sebold, alongside Brian Eno.

Limited to 500 copies.