Jon Hopkins – Singularity LP

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Experimental melodic techno and ambient from Jon Hopkins via Domino (Audio sample from digital source)

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Artist: Jon Hopkins
Title: Singularity
Format: 2×12″ vinyl
Label: Domino
Cat nr: WIGLP352
Genre:  Melodic techno/Experimental electronica/Ambient/pop

Tracklist

A1 Singularity 6:29
A2 Emerald Rush 5:37
B1 Neon Pattern Drum 6:07
B2 Everything Connected 10:30
C1 Feel First Life 5:34
C2 C O S M 7:09
C3 Echo Dissolve 3:22
D1 Luminous Beings 11:51
D2 Recovery 5:36

Review from Pitchfork
Pitched between heat-seeking acid house and ambient bliss, the techno auteur’s first album since 2013 is a beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance.

Jon Hopkins is playing God. That much is clear as soon as “Singularity,” the lead and title song on his first album since 2013’s Mercury Prize-nominated Immunity, shivers into being. A ferrous wasteland of synthesizer overhung by evaporated strings and guitar merge into a remarkably complete sonic landscape — the land and sky of a new world, with its own alien physics, its own genesis and apocalypse. Hopkins keeps hanging these strange planets in wobbly orbits throughout Singularity, forming a universe that pulses with deep consciousness and a sense of endless discovery.

Hopkins was known as a hired hand for Coldplay, Brian Eno, and Imogen Heap, with a sideline in tasteful IDM records until Immunitypromoted him to noted techno auteur. Like that breakthrough, Singularity is a beat-music odyssey pitched between acid house and introspective ambient bliss, constant change and eternal return, sublunary and sublime. It also combines many other opposites into thrillingly unstable wholes. The producer’s distinctive techno is coarse and granular, as if electricity were a solid you could grind in a mill, yet it flows in a graceful stream. It squelches like muck and shines like crystal. It beats like a body, but it moves like a mind.

Singularity begins with a three-song voyage through a realm that’s recognizable from Immunity epic “Open Eye Signal,” one where much of the rhythm occurs in negative space. For a techno producer, Hopkins has a counterintuitive way of treating sound as something huge and immobile, then scything crop circles into those heavy frequencies to create a sense of motion. His beats are blanks, and his tracks feel unbound from the metronome. “Emerald Rush” climbs a ladder of Laraaji-like arpeggios and mountainous chord changes to some hidden summit of consciousness. The track features additional drum programming by Clark, another tailor of the fabric of spacetime—something Hopkins turns inside out at the drop on “Neon Pattern Drum.”

Read full review at: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jon-hopkins-singularity/

Weight 0,5 kg
Dimensions 32 × 32 × 0,5 cm
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