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I remember flicking through the highlights of Glatonbury Festival 2019 on BBC iPlayer and catching a few tracks from an enchanting live set from Jon Hopkins, a UK electronic dance artist with a background in producing scores for film soundtracks, most notably for Gareth Edwards’ 2010 breakout hit sci-fi smash “Monsters”. He’s a very talented individual who used to work closely with renowned singer-actress Imogen Heap, as he first gained notoriety from playing the keyboard alongside her, before moving on to a production role for albums from the likes of Brian Eno, David Holmes and, weirdly enough, Coldplay, of all bands. His biggest hit is “Singularity”, an album which gained lots of critical acclaim and charted within the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart when it was first released in 2015. “Open Eye Signal” is a single from his fourth LP record, “Immunity”, which was released in June 2013 by Domino Records and it was nominated for the Mercury Prize Award of the next year.

“Open Eye Signal” is a track from Hopkins which really makes a great deal of sense when you consider that Hopkins has a vital background in performing for soundtracks on films and television. This is an ambient electronic dance track that has a cinematic quality to it, created by the mixing of the heavy bass colliding with the percussion which feels industrial in texture, smashing into the techno-infouenced rhythm and the consistently fast pacing, although the beats feel very merticulously layered as the track builds upon it’s layout in a gradual manner. The result is an 8-minute delight which never lets up, a track which is very cerebral in it’s delivery, leading to a close which feels organic in a rather subtle way. Overall, it’s very methodical in nature and it’a harkening back to the intelligent dance craze of the late 90’s, while conveying new tones of human evolution and drawing on the themes of science and the environment in a way which feels, in the ending, successful in it’s delivery.

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