Jon Hopkins – “Everything Connected”

Steve Gullick

Jon Hopkins – “Everything Connected”

Steve Gullick

English producer Jon Hopkins has released another animated music video in anticipation for his new album Singularity, and this time it’s a lot more abstract. In keeping with the similar trippy vibe of last month’s “Emerald Rush” video, his new song “Everything Connected” is a nearly six-minute electronic soundscape that takes you through the circle of life.

After launching his career playing keyboard for Imogen Heap, Hopkins broke through on his own with his 2013 atmospheric album Immunity. He also scored a production of Hamlet that starred Benedict Cumberbatch back in 2015. Weird but fitting!

As the video’s psychedelic visualizer starts, fractal, energetic shapes spin through space transforming into increasingly complex molecules of color. The peak of the evolutionary cycle forms this stealthily crawling jellyfish-type creature that pulses to the track’s experimental trance. As the beat drops and the bass kicks into overdrive, the visuals becomes more frenetic and explorative as if they are almost fighting back against their reversion. “Everything Connected” ends where it began. Watch it below.

TOUR DATES:
05/10 – Village Underground – London – SOLD OUT
05/22 – Elsewhere – Brooklyn, NY – SOLD OUT
10/10 – Rockefeller – Oslo, Norway
10/11 – Nobelberget – Stockholm, Sweden
10/12 – Den Grå Hal – Copenhagen, Denmark
10/18 – Vicar Street – Dublin, Ireland
10/19 – The Galvanizers – Glasgow, UK
10/20 – Paradiso for ADE – Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/24 – AB – Brussels, Belgium
10/25 – Columbiahalle – Berlin, Germany
10/26 – Le Trianon – Paris, France
11/06 – Brixton Academy – London, UK – SOLD OUT
11/17 – Boiler Shop – Newcastle, UK
11/22 – Albert Hall – Manchester, UK

Jon Hopkins Singularity Festival & DJ Appearances 2018
05/03 – Banquet – Kingston, UK – DJ Set
05/18 – Moogfest – Durham, NC
05/19 – David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption – Brooklyn, NY
05/25 – Villette Sonique – Paris, France
05/26 – Department – Stockholm, Sweden (DJ Set)
06/02 – Primavera – Barcelona, Spain
06/09 – Park Life – Manchester, UK
06/15 – Maifeld Derby – Mannheim, Germany
06/23 – Body & Soul – Co.Westmeath, Ireland
06/29 – Down The Rabbit Hole – Ewijk, Netherlands

Singularity is out 5/4 on Domino Records. Pre-order here.

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