Jon Hopkins - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

[@_elfifle_]

Who is also here 10 years later, enjoying this otherworldy music?

[@romanroonen6155]

Here😮

[@kevinrye66]

I am and loving it

[@Job.Well.Done_01]

Yes

[@aNicerPlace]

Me, apparently and a decade late to the party too

[@Bychadi]

Hohoo

[@ThomasBrubach]

Jon Hopkins is a masterful producer. His sound design is nuanced and deliberate and complex. You could spend minutes picking apart the textures of short fragments and individual sounds, and he keeps it evolving the entire time. The "he pushes buttons" debate comes from people who are hung up on the aesthetics of his live performance -- they don't think the music looks right. I get the prejudice in the sense that you see a guy in front of electronics and you don't understand the huge amount of technical skill that goes into making it -- but there's a lot to listen to here. His performance is to take his craft, which happens in his studio, and manipulate it live. He's changing variables on the fly, re-sculpting something he meticulously crafted to the extent that it's impossible for him to literally re-create live. Should he not play to a live audience then? No, this is music, people dance to it live, and the real value of this music is to actually listen to it.

[@AndyG.G]

If this music is just to be listened, there's no need for a stage with a guy who presses the play button, come on! Stay home and listen to your favourite CD. People bitch here only for the name "live".

[@whatdothlife4660]

This is my first time watching this performance after many listens to Immunity from a download whim on Amazon. I only just finished Open Eye Signal and he REALLY did change it up and make this live and worthy.

[@Neel-ff4mn]

Jon is kind of like Autechre in a way.

[@SuperCashed]

Thomas Brubach exactly!

[@xanderjohanvandenhooven9649]

Amen

[@ronsteffans8107]

KEXP has the best taste in music

[@danielrossy24]

Came across Jon Hopkins when I was flying with icelandair from Reykjavik to Toronto. The planes entertainment system had his Immunity album. Wow what a flight it was, I had his album on repeat. Best part was listening while watching the sun rise. Amazing!!

[@iceavelli7667]

Sounds incredible

[@crlyleeyogikristine3994]

must have been a heavenly experience

[@jasongravely7217]

The fact that the flight had that album on is so beautiful.

[@tatianasbrightlife3452]

Wow❤

[@SuperBlackted]

I bought his album on a whim. Never looked back. My wife and I drove round the Scottish highlands listening to it. Mind bending visuals and music. Epic

[@solarcross]

that sounds super awesome being an american living in dreary ass new york in 2020

[@scottyvein2660]

amazing

[@Plaguedoctor-mv2jj]

i can fell you, melancholy of the higlands and sound like this!

[@JesseRoss1WAO]

Where's the LOVE button on this thing?!!

[@richardmarknagy9225]

You must have had the best fucking time ever, happy for you.

[@heilapaulino7602]

I saw Jon Hopkins live in Brooklyn once and it was one of the most transcendent experiences I've had in my life. This is beauty.

[@CoyTheobalt]

Take a gander at a live Thylacine DJ Set...... that guy is incredible, I mean a full on workout.

[@CoyTheobalt]

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[@apolozamparelli5663]

Me too! Brooklyn Steel September 2019. I was possessed by the spirit of his music.

[@RBGEscuela]

oh my, collider... I went to another dimension, to another time, another life, everywhere

[@NachosBorealis]

RunbenGuo yes

[@tharxide]

Get out of my head

[@mrdayvidjon]

RunbenGuo Very colidy I must agree. As a traveler in time I had experience this machine for the ages I do appreciate what it’s capable of.

[@XXHattoriHanzoXX]

I fap to Collider

[@grantroberts2870]

best track

[@rain_irl6460]

imagine listening to this on board the international space station

[@canobenitez]

raves at space sounds so cool

[@TheAris621]

And with a joint

[@marionow6227]

I m imagining it....

[@neosapiens5170]

My mind is always in space! So there is no need to imagine. But the sound would be interesting out there.... ;)

[@emanuelmartinez2597]

Or going thru a time portal in space to another part of the galaxy and this song is playing from space while you travel.

[@Joe-lq5nt]

"I like the idea of starting from a point of reality, and then sort of twisting it into something more abstract, rather than than just starting in the void of computers..." Jon Hopkins will go down in history as one of the very most innovative electronic musicians of all time.

[@lemonadewarrior6733]

+Joe Jeremiah I never thought of it that way...

[@Opomax]

+Joe Jeremiah Bjork did this on Medulla over a decade ago. ' The album is almost entirely a cappella and constructed with human vocals. Medúlla received two Grammy Award nominations and reached number one in several record charts.'

[@filipjozwiak5953]

James Holden who made similar stuff years ago, Nathan Fake from Holden's Border Community label was also dubbed one of the most innovative when he first started releasing in 2003, Four Tet and Mount Kimbie made their names by giving a lot of input as well. I think this kind of sound is just very British :)

[@30m3]

Any act on Warp recordings took this approach back in the 90's.

[@mentallentil]

Jean-Michel Jarre's 1984 album Zoolook predates all these. Made entirely of voices, still a breathtaking recording.

[@Cunboss]

Comparing Jon Hopkins's with David Guetta's performance during shows is like comparing a pianist with an ipod.

[@nagudelomusic]

True that

[@oscaraullon]

Even So this man it's not playing his music.

[@Melgaer]

Fun fact, Jon Hopkins is a pianist.

[@lukeberrie3942]

That’s because you would be doing just that lol

[@ivoviveiros4510]

Who The Fuck is David Guetta???

[@jimgreulich7860]

First of all, this is really good stuff, although not my favorite genre, I can certainly appreciate the musical & technical skills that are displayed by Mr Hopkins here. For anyone that thinks this does not take mad skills, you should give it a try and see how far you get. I was classically trained on a several standard instruments growing up and have a very good knowledge of music theory, etc. Not only do you have to have that but you have to learn a completley new world of synths, computers and electronics and put it all together. It is tremendously challenging to even create something like this (as a recording), but so manipulate live and on the fly as he does here is a true musical talent and should be appreciated. I always have to laugh at those who call themselves "music purists". They asset that if you're not playing a traditional orchestral instrument, you are not a true musician. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. I submit that learning all this stuff is at least as difficult as learning a standard instrument, if not more so. Even playing piano, yes, you have both hands going doing different things but they are all on the same string of 88 keys. Here, he is jumping between a ton of different pieces of different equipment... very impressive indeed!

[@ianbrookes6193]

I totally agree!

[@atherbukharii]

Artists like jon Hopkins, autechre, and many more are the legend of the legends, they are the musical scientists. You understand and connect to their work only when you have listened to almost every kind of music out there, almost every style, every genre, in the end the summit is the music like this, the artists like them, genre like IDM and techno. The genre doesn't matter particularly, but it's always about the the creator, what he creates, legends like him deserve to be called the father of electronic music. People would study their works after a 100 years.

[@cheetahcoats4923]

Yes!

[@iamtheaudiophile]

check djrum, boards of canada, flying lotus

[@atherbukharii]

@@iamtheaudiophile absolutely man, i know them. Even great mainstream artists like deadmaus listens to them proudly

[@Ma4xe]

0:22 Open Eye Signal 8:56 We Disappear 15:45 Collider

[@kkira22]

Ma4xe you do the Lord's work

[@eggbirdtherooster]

Electronic music that keeps inventing and rediscovering itself over and over again.. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

[@DarienBoodan]

Listening to artists like this and trying to fathom the complexity and layers of sound, and how much is controlled, and how much is simply left to evolve on its own-- it makes me feel the same enthralling anxiety when I consider how large the universe and how improbably and infinitesimal our existence is. Sheer cosmic luck.

[@ChrisJohnsonproducer]

Very very strong. I've never heard of him or his music and find this performance to be very powerful. It reminds me of driving through Downtown Los Angeles at 4:00am with all of its complexity, humanity, power and chaos suddenly transformed into a cerebral maze of random beauty and mechanized movement. It's deeply touching in it's pulsing, granular, heartbeating, organic randomness. I like this guy - I like this performance.

[@stanislavmatusevschi6142]

Beautifully sad

[@PrinceAmac]

God, this guy is genius

[@mikespike2099]

THIS IS THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE!!!!

[@CaterinaFalvoArt]

Cameras guys, you rock!

[@skyshaver6622]

I've listened to these songs a hundred times off the original album and these performances still gave me goosebumps. Whatever he's doing with the kaos pads etc. it's adding serious emotional weight to the tunes and that qualifies as performance.

[@loldoctor]

yeah all these ppl saying "he just pressed play" must not be familiar with the album versions of these songs... even if that were the case, dude's still a genius. listen to how organic that shit is. and his attention to dynamics is fantastic. it's not just "quiet loud REALLY LOUD suddenly quiet LOUD AGAIN quiet fade out", he lets it grow and swell and fade and it's beautiful.

[@Fuzzboy100]

@@loldoctor I think he's playing the stems in 4 parts on the mixer, 3 parts going through the korg pads and 1 dry, then he tweaks and adds, slows, repeats, stretches, mixing it all he likes... and has a lot of control over the textures that, actually have bits missing for him to perform live over the stems.

[@Patrock17]

One eye signal has to be my favorite track

[@ItzhakEthanEskimo]

me too, but I wouldn't considerate a "song". no one is singing

[@impulsivedesigns]

Of course its a song. Would you consider it a song if it were singing and there were no instruments/electronica accompanying it?

[@woandersone6509]

BrownMoses, Yes, Song comes from Singing, this is a track.

[@impulsivedesigns]

Ok. Next you'll tell me that Joe Satriani only composes tracks. GTFOH...

[@woandersone6509]

Wikipedia: Song - work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice

[@yanapiano]

SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!!!!! KEXP always brings the best artists from all over the world. MEGA respect to you!

[@robpdb]

Jon Hopkins is a whole new level!

[@stevolution898]

Been a year now and still can not find anything as good as Collider.

[@Residual.Selfimage]

+stEvo lution anything by Burial

[@KacperPpp]

naaa

[@petertaylor9371]

Fear not. New Hopkins record nearing completion. Due soon.

[@Nosana87]

Years later, still nothing that's as good as Collider. Love Emerald Rush though.

[@livacreative]

Try moderat - milk or Port-Royal - balding generation

[@Daniele231195]

Music is such a beautiful way to cry.

[@zeeshangondal]

lol. all these people saying that this isn't as good as live instruments. b***h his songs are composed of random melodic sounds, like the door to his studio shutting, a garbage truck reversing, fireworks at the olympics opening ceremony. how do you expect him to recreate that live? you want him setting off fireworks in the studio? bring in a garbage truck?

[@nchtml1233]

Conservative people will never be excited by original and unknown sounds.

[@gusprista]

why can't people enjoy both? each type of music has its own beautiful particularities and that's why is amazing to have people performing with "organic" instruments and also electronic artists who put so much into a cohesive piece of sound.

[@navsquid32]

@@nchtml1233 Muh generalized ad hominems, because muh virtue.

[@endiv7500]

Because they don't know shit... what a fuck is so special about hitting animal hides bronze plates blowing in wood tubes and hitting strings ? Music is organized sound in a melodic manner pleasing to the ear which is air displacement period nothing else... you can create that with whatever you want and call it music... farting or burping could be as artistic and technical as any mozart composition... that people don't like or can't appreciate it is completely irrelevant to the reality of the fact that it's music and it requires talent...

[@roncv26]

Collider is sick!

[@lemonadewarrior6733]

+Ron Smith My favourite off the album...

[@shobhitsharma1257]

+Ron Smith That extra percussion in the beginning though. I think that makes all the difference.

[@alexandergilman3394]

I read lots of these comments about whether he is truly playing "live" and its super clear that he is NOT simply pushing play and then adding effects. Its clear as day, especially on the "Collider" performance, that he is triggering parts of the song as it progresses, meaning if he did just hit "play" and sat back, not much would happen. If you've ever seen Ableton, each little piece of a track can be broken up into parts and triggered with a controller, which he is doing. It takes a lot of skill and musicianship to make it into such an affecting and epic song.

[@livacreative]

awesomely explained

[@anthonycalderon3309]

Subtlety.

[@moonboy2022]

He uses ableton? Everyone uses that it seems. I only tried Reason, which is fun but don't seem to be used much by the pros.

[@not-hank-s]

It helps too to understand what the KP3 is -- a sampler with a ton of FX, so each of those machines is processing the audio and a lot of this is live FX and looping. Super cool.

[@Reprobus3]

Saying all he's doing is pushing buttons is like saying all (insert guitarists name here) is doing is plucking strings, the guitar is making the sound. It's the statement of an ignoramus. My experience is this is so much more difficult than just playing a single instrument with others or alone.

[@winfriedbauer2280]

If you hear him playing the same song in 10 different places, it sounds different everytime! Legend!

[@liamyouthfriendly9094]

i have no idea what his hands are doing but i feel like its epic

[@andytaylor1806]

Feel like this guy's been hiding in plain sight my whole life, this is some good stuff!

[@mackenzieonyx7586]

right??? 💚

[@naa-video]

i feel this

[@jayceykirby7313]

So much emotion in this. Ive never heard anything quite like his music.

[@xiaobaodabao]

Didn't think the Open Eye Signal music video could be surpassed, but this is mind-boggling, to see him up close, making all the sounds by hand, live.

[@kroffustsnail]

I watched this video with my 7 year old to show her how all of Hopkins' "space music" I play in the evening is made. Wonderful shooting and very inspiring to see the work and energy he puts into each track. His Viper Room set video is a jam, but this goes further and gives great insight into his technique. Thank you!

[@banupaul09]

My dear son, I am 8 months pregnant of you. I hope you will make music like this and mommy will come to listen your sets.

[@JFREE360]

That's quite an impressive array of fantastic electronic devices.

[@zagmazmatron]

Show this to anyone who says electronic music is not music.

[@edeneye808]

The sounds are much more vivid on this live mix. Definitely worth a listen if you enjoyed the album.

[@sircles-net]

What a performance - this guy is the real deal, no question about it!

[@harryefellows]

Stunning. The sound he produces is just amazing.

[@yacinedeagle3387]

So great to have you here.... thanks for having me haha

[@JaneDoe-ym7de]

I would love to show this video to every single person who calls artists like him "People who push buttons" How about you stand there and make that incredible music happen by just 'pushing buttons'

[@girlinagale]

An elderly gentleman came up to me while I was playing a couple of Moog Mother 32s, an Eventide H9 and a Boss rc505 loopstation, and said, 'I've played Classical Music for 50 years, and THIS is not music!' I just increased the LFO on the Mother 32 bass to make a farting sound and grinned at him.

[@Олег-м4п7ю]

Музыка к которой возвращаешься снова и снова! До мурашек

[@ash13liv]

wow,the amount of skill it involves to time those stutters,lo-fis and cuts to make it sound like he did it in a studio,on a KP3...skill....period...

[@gamble777888]

Jon Hopkins live show in Mutek Mexico City three years agos was one of the most amazing musical experiences of my life. Anyone I ever bump into who happened to be at that show ends up telling me the same thing

[@penguin0075]

Absolutely INCREDIBLE!! One of the best instrumental pieces of sound/music/noise I have ever heard.

[@sonicsubjunkie]

He truly fits the description of artist.

[@MBTHAIS]

Its so good to see the artists perform live like this

[@briankiz1]

and why we love KEXP.

[@mateusz80]

Wow!!! Super!!

[@HouseofBluesChannel]

Colliderrr just killlin meeewee

[@michaelmadcat]

This is one of my faves right now. I keep coming back to this performance. As someone who aspires to make electronic music with this sort of sound, I'm taking notes, haha! 📝

[@stevenceballosfilms]

God this is amazing, such a talented musician!

[@daviddecobert8248]

9:00 we disappear, inspiration Mark Clement- Berlin last station

[@christopherfriasreyes9500]

Lo increíble de sus piezas artísticas, en particular la de este disco, es que cierras los ojos y puedes visualizar como empieza a hablar a través de una melodía de capas y mixturas de colores pintadas como en un cuadro impresionista vivo.

[@paulherbig3436]

❤

[@WorldSurvivalist]

Still epic

[@daftyfunky]

You're a wizard, Jon!

[@desidesigning]

I really love KEXP for introducing new musicians!

[@WhatiTHINK14]

It's amazing how he does this. I really want to get into that. One day

[@보리타작-x9s]

Amazing:)

[@JulianVeggies]

beauty.

[@javiernebiolo]

i remember when Dominik Eulberg play a set in 2016 making a compilation of several artist and between them was Jon Hopkins i love his music...

[@eggbirdtherooster]

Now this is music !!1!

[@mariobajardi]

the work is in studio. Respect for live interpetration. Armony and studio are all!

[@Ghostflowers]

Reading the comment section made me breakout, but listening to this cured it.

[@technics005]

so brilliant

[@tiffanyward77]

i loveeeee the feeling i get from listening to this music, its like im ingesting it into my soul

[@jamie5252]

Every single sound here has been constructed. Just because he isn’t “playing” the music, he still agonised over and wrote it all

[@AdhitiaSofyan]

DAT GEAR.

[@dharmasyahputraharahap8686]

i like it

[@volgodark]

Where to buy?

[@signormaiale8139]

they are korg kaosspad

[@volgodark]

many thanks!

[@setoelkahfi]

Jiyahh, mas Adhit di sini juga:D

[@PressKribed]

Instrumentalist and Composers are two different things. If someone like Jon Hopkins does not play an instrument (which I think it really does) does not mean he is not a musician. If you're looking that way, go for those creepy guitar players (Instrumentalists). You don't deserve the real music. Jon Hopkins is the Music!

[@cosync]

Actually jon is one of the greatist pianists since chopin

[@Duylt1202]

he plays the piano bruh

[@girlinagale]

The mixer is an instrument in a live set up, levels and sends/returns via an effect is really powerful musicianship.

[@AlirezaDehqani]

Jon Hopkins, give me a new feeling, a new thought. ❤

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

I wish that for performances like this there was some sort of documentation that reveals what he's starting with, what's he actually doing etc. so that viewers have the option of comprehending what's actually being shown here and then watching it again.

[@narudh]

He's just triggering loops. Or worst yet he just pressed plays and mime the motions.

[@narudh]

+Tyler O'Reilly I have 20 scantily clad babes to divert the attention

[@brandonfraser6973]

+Narudh Areesorn he has some pretty cool bussing to verbs/delays too. Also, I would like to note that essentially electronic artist are just composers/conductors. Conductors just don't push the buttons, instead they wave their finger.

[@dtiberio3967]

+Shape Shifter Truthfully, I don't believe he was wrong. I have owned and used Kaoss pads for well over a decade and they do not appear to be turned on in this performance. The loop buttons are never lit (Green, orange, or red), the tempo button isn't flashing, and most importantly the large red LEDs on the pads aren't on. I would like to believe it is the angle of the filming but you can clearly see the blue LEDs and other LEDs on the other gear. That said, the sounds and effects are unmistakably from a Korg Kaoss pad so he likely did create this performance then just triggered it and mimed the motions for the video here. Nothing wrong with that. It did catch my eye though that they didn't appear to be on.

[@johnarundell7951]

Dominic Tiberio ".. he likely did create this performance then just triggered it and mimed the motions for the video .." Jealous much you're nobody and you can't do this in your dreams? Deluded idiot :D

[@juanparadox]

He is FINALLY going on tour in the US!! I have been waiting 4 years to see him live!!!

[@goodsirknight]

good man jon!

[@sarah-katehicks4715]

Thank you

[@twiggidy]

I think alot of people on here don't realize how hard it is to put a "band" together with "reliable" members. Jon is obviously a talented musician and knows how to manipulate equipment that we all probably have, but he just uses it in a better way. I'm sure he could work to find members to play all these layers as a group, but it's probably much easier for him to work the set out to be played solo. It makes touring and sustaining you music alot easier I'm sure. Most of us are probably super impressed with Bonobo and Tycho for having actual bands but they probably took years to create that band and I know for a fact they both started as laptop guys.

[@marlonjarek9071]

also i think their music differs a lot from jons (not better or worse, just different. i love them all). his is a lot more abstract and i think at a certain point it doesnt make sense to try and recreate those sounds live, because it would be something completely different and wouldnt serve the music.

[@anthonydubois4262]

Cette musique n'existait pas avant Jon Hopkins. Et la vraie beauté est dans toute création.

[@GaryT85.]

JH always blows my mind.. Shame the recent tour was called off - but hopefully should be seeing the Polarity show in December at Royal Albert Hall 😎

[@riccardobertagna9388]

Still one of my favourites to watch ❤

[@MaxFri2109]

just......enorme !!!!!

[@greentelly280]

Amazing. I recently discovered "Singularity" and I haven't really had that focus on an album since my CD years :D I keep listening to it again and again. "Feel like first life" is a true masterpiece. To the people who doubt of what he is doing in this video: just listen to the album and you'll hear that while changes are more or less subtle, there are true changes / new FX triggered by the Kaoss Pads. Also, don't forget this guy is an amazing piano player who won many prizes so he should know what a live performance is. Finally, he is a true artisan who works in the very spirit of the UK electronic scene doing insane things like Burial who composed an entire album with a sound editor not really designed for that (Soundforge) or Jon Hopkins who still uses his old Windows XP or 7 computer in a virtual machine, with 25 years FX like Steinberg Magneto... Come on guys, this is a beautiful artist. Rendering electronic music of this level is difficult and he's doing well here.

[@MegaMajestics]

Immunity is a masterpiece.

[@remongrabu]

It is

[@ZmiguelzteixeiraZ]

Specially nowdays.

[@pedrovideira725]

oh yes!! and Singularity is not far from it

[@SuperBlackted]

It’s insane, I often go a while with not listening to it, then I put it on and it just blows you away

[@winterkeep]

This just made my evening 1,000% better 😁

[@bogdanbuda8118]

Can you imagine this guy cooking with those hands? Please check out his Chill music as well.

[@misspetedoherty]

where ?... pleazzzz

[@bogdanbuda8118]

Re△Love∞ution well, maybe i was new into his music, and then i realized he has only 2 studio albums, Insides and Imunity. Imunity has some chill pieces in it. sorry if i mislead you.

[@filippoberti691]

Bogdan Buda no he has also Contact Note and Opalescent

[@elvirakirsanova5822]

i can imagine this guy doing other things with those hands

[@Cunboss]

Fuck he's good. Coming back to this vid, and be amazed again.

[@FreGZile]

I wish someday i'll have the 1/10th of his talent.

[@razakhan999]

WOW!!

[@Schnitz13]

I've heard some clubs here and there are starting to demand that DJs play actual vinyl and not work from a laptop. But what about stuff like this? They've made no room with such a blanket statement for how the genre can evolve and become something entirely extraordinary!

[@Luministmusic]

he's not really DJing here, he's performing his own composition

[@Schnitz13]

Me and my limited vocabulary - you're very right.

[@emblemcc]

Perfect! after 9 years I still prefer this performance over the album.

[@Nicoyutub]

This is really good

[@paulherbig3436]

❤This Sound is amazing ❤🎉🎉🎉

[@JohnnyBVideo]

Magnificent music. Magnificently awkward interview.

[@AndieTaylor-x7z]

Ah! can't believe I never watched this, but I was at The Crocodile for his set that night! Just an all round amazing musician

[@TomahAwkDJ7]

This is very creative and phat !!!

[@valentinarmenta4982]

Your so hip

[@crcaccounts]

Your. Heh.

[@shilohm6558]

Both him and his music = beautiful & hypnotic

[@Djsk514city]

Wish he would have continued after 12:35 :D Genius!

[@Ludmilla_the_Witch]

❤❤❤I have never seen anything like it...that is 100% positive and I mean it with all my heart! I have loved magical electronic music for over 20 years and I have been able to get to know so many masterpieces by absolute heroes and these musicians are unique and touching to me in their own way. But the way Jon Hopkins gives us his works is unique!! I am so in love with his style❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@thefacebork]

its a kind of magic

[@raulisaaccrisostomomoreno411]

Gracias KZbin x recordarme esta masterpiece

[@danderegil]

Pffffff -- so, so good.

[@NonBinary_Star]

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS DUDE BEFORE?!?! 😢 😭😭😭 and not even in the nine years since this was made?!? 🤯😭 this is soo my lane!❤

[@gohan2083]

don't worry about the past this set comes from the future