Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal (Live on KEXP)

[@golu_badbola]

One of the most sonically satisfying melody of the 21st century. Man's a genius.

[@martinbrugger7361]

most underplayed video on youtube

[@papunachumburidze6662]

its like I revisited over 100 times

[@adipocerousloaf9366]

Truer words have never been written, dude.

[@tommythecat4961]

I love listening to this while watching people walk, or on the bus, and think that they all have a story, dreams, broken hearts, wishes... It's the best soundtrack for that.

[@Dom213]

This is exactly how I feel what this song is

[@crobar_]

The way at which he can manipulate 2 chords into a musical masterpiece like this is beyond me

[@classactionsteve]

What do you mean? It's all pretty much just percussive.

[@halcyon107]

It has tonality to it, he's going from Fmin to Abmaj, which is simple but effective the way he does it in creating this gorgeous buildup and release cycle to drown in.

[@muntelevenu5]

he's pulling off a monster performance here!

[@greendollarbills]

This is pure candy for my ears. If I only knew exactly what he was doing..

[@thedave000100]

Im a live tech for bands and acts so I can figure out some of what he'd doing by watching. The three identical things he has that he's messing about with are Kaos pads. These are boxes that can add various effects to things which you control with a touch screen. For example one effect could be the higher up you touch on the Y axis the longer a reverb is, and the further along the X axis the louder that reverb. He is playing some stems from the laptop to the DJ mixer, then each of these stems is going through its own Kaos pad. In the middle is processing some drum parts (mainly snares I think) as you can see at 1:44 he obviously uses it to add a reverb to a snare hit. The one to his right (our left) is doing bass sounds as you can see at 1:58 he adds some filter or modulator (Im not sure exactly what) to the bass line. Im not sure exactly what the third one on the right is doing, but again he's using it to process some stems of the track. He uses a number of different presents on all of them, reverbs, delays, filters and repeaters. The DJ mixer to the left is being used the same way a DJ would use it, to filter some stuff and add effects, and adjust levels between the various stems he's created. The white thing at the top is a Livid Cntrl:r which Richie Hawtin helped design which is a midi controller that you can use to sequence parts live. He's not using it here but for example he could if he wanted suddenly add an extra hand clap or hihat loop by basing in a few buttons, then have full control of the sounds and effects of that. I suspect he's using Ableton software as that's that the cntrl:r is designed to work with (although you can use it with anything) and he's not triggering any clips or improvising on the arrangement of the song, he has essentially pressed play and is more making things more dynamic and interesting by improvising adding effects to existing arrangement. This style of "playing live" is similar to what deadmau5 does it has nothing to do with DJing or being a traditional musician, but instead doing live processing to existing audio. I think he's got a pretty neat set up here where he adds some real interest to the track as well as being cool to watch! Hope that helps give you some idea as to what he's doing. Without diving into the computer and looking at all the signal routing it's hard to know exactly what's going on, but that's the gist of it!

[@NothingButTomAndCam]

Dave Samwell man I want your job

[@Jeff-bt5sr]

Dave Samwell fk man you have keen eyes ;p didn't know that Livid worked with @Richie Hawtin. that's so cool. you may already know but for the sake of other people,@deadmau5's cube setup is worth checking out, it's a tightly sequenced live MIDI->synth based show with visuals all wound up by SMPTE. so the synths are playing 'live'. he tweaks them and adds FX on the fly... that's about as far as you get from the traditional DJ setup. only downside is a rather rigidly fixed track listing, so it's a bit too predictable in that aspect. and there be a huge load of gear.

[@riccardobertagna9388]

Pfffff 10 years from this live already, no way ❤

[@proximalpha]

omg this made me do a double take

[@danielmartinezmeyer2291]

Qué puta pasada joder, cuando se busca "música electrónica" en Google debería salir directamente esto.

[@marcelogonzalez9283]

Ya te digo , es una puta corrida

[@Mikelica69]

Si, estoy viciadisimo a esta canción

[@raindog7781]

I feel that my life is divided into before and after entering John Hopkins world... It is difficult for me to imagine life without his music.

[@debroopbasu9557]

Album of the year.

[@tonikboy7]

of the year 2525.

[@h1gherb0ymusic12]

@@tonikboy7 true

[@OldskoolAcko]

England's finest. Big up Jon H 💙✌🏼

[@collectivebrainrot]

Genius at work.

[@46chambersoflife]

its songs like these that take your mind to other places

[@jamiesamuels3778]

I’ve been listening to you music for a while and I’m not going to stop

[@esprocsllib]

he could go on for hours with the same melody and it will be perfect

[@biancaturner725]

What a burner, mans a gem ❤

[@TheNaiveJohn]

Phucking phenomenal.

[@djaaronchase]

such a vibe!! 👾👾👾

[@basedtj2000]

this acid bass on the live is much better than the released version

[@rafiekadavis6277]

Jon Hopkins wow! What an audio art you have created! Eye signal has so much feeling to it and a awesome story telling element to it.. I just love this feeling that you have created. I love your art! Keep it up!

[@caleblaughlin8351]

His compositions are brilliant!

[@dannesz]

Piece of art

[@Qoreader]

its like you are the centre of universe. - the soundtrack.

[@cocoyglez.9441]

Que permormace felicidades Jon increíble

[@cdesign404]

fantastic one ! john Hopkins best track with Collider. two seconds after the beginning i was flying. LOVELY Chaos...

[@uriel1544]

my mouth was open for like 90 percent of this video

[@cutalin]

Legend

[@NealDring]

FANTASTIC!

[@FredoJedi]

La Grande Classe !!

[@Iddybud]

Fabulous set - I really like the sounds created by Jon Hopkins. Thanks, KEXP 90.3 FM.

[@Thenorthernacoustic]

Great tune!

[@vaibhavanand4463]

What a performance! Class apart!

[@ubersensesATH]

Pure Class!!!

[@АнтонДевяткин-я9ы]

Cosmos Super thank YOU BRO

[@chucky_music]

Incredible

[@gldk0z4k61]

Genius

[@veneramakaryan6560]

!!!!!!!!!! WOW !!!!!!! Fantastic !!!! Love it )))))

[@Mikelica69]

I freaking love it so much😭😍😍

[@danielbrett247]

What a lad.

[@hopsenrobsen]

Underrated!

[@jamiesamuels3778]

Major Beats

[@jamiesamuels3778]

Very creative

[@tehSeaNx]

madness.

[@LUK-MOTO]

YYee cool !!

[@MrTiralove]

Its a fucking beast.Genius.

[@maddogUK69]

The way I look at the whole "they're not really playing anything" accusation, is if that's true, then every famous conductor has been pulling the exact same scam with orchestras for a couple of hundred years now, and no-one seems to mind.

[@Frodo1000000]

This is a good comparison, since he has to set everything up in before playing.

[@maddogUK69]

@@prohibitedbeatz I disagree. I mean I'm using an absurd assertion that conductors don't do anything to make the point. Because musicians like Jon also compose (of course) but there is an immense technical aspect to what they do too, and proficiency in choosing, configuring, understanding and manipulating complex pieces of technology. My favourite rebuttal to people who try to belittle performers like Jon (but also numerous others like Orbital, Vitalic, Gus Gus, Underworld etc. etc.) is to say "Ok, here's a room with all the same bits of kit as [insert aforementioned group here] I'll give you a couple of days to come up with the same sound and put on a live 1 hour performance. Ok? I'm mean it's just twiddling knobs. Right? Should be easy. Right?" As The Prodigy's Liam Howlett once said, the manual for how to undertstand a guitar is just a few pages. The manual to understand a Roland W30 is over 200 pages thick. It wasn't meant to claim that one was better or easier than the other, just that it's a very different set of skills, and the latter is often depreciated by those who don't "get it". To be clear, I realise you're not one of the "it's just twiddling knobs" brigade, but I disagree that conducting an orchestra is somehow inherently more skilful. It's not. It's just very different.

[@wellsym8e]

All of us have a fridge full of ingredients

[@wellsym8e]

Jon is a higher power

[@nordsun]

Unreal.

[@marcelogonzalez9283]

Brutaaal

[@justinsaunders1459]

Hands up who paused at 0:12 just to look at the gear.

[@helugoconache]

3 kp3's

[@justinsaunders1459]

@@helugoconache right? Only two hands.

[@LeBaron370]

This song is awesome, his head is abnormal. Very important song for me

[@jordanbenson2980]

Immunity is immaculate.

[@andrejsjumkins9322]

Это нереально красиво, творческий пацан

[@zaxarrrr3659]

I'm new into electronic music and I'm digging this guys stuff, also Nathan Fake and James Holden, any recommendations for good stuff like these?

[@mq1988]

The sky was pink Icelandic remix. Alter ego why not.

[@setfyo9959]

@frank maier, this is not overloaded, you can feel the groove of it and this is what tech house is all about. Its made for the dancefloor and you can get lost in the track. If he would use less drum elements but more melody he would be the avicii.

[@seahorselady8]

❤️❤️❤️

[@patriciahealey2927]

Fuckin amazing track

[@vitaliiklak8059]

Best dirty sound ever !!!

[@donalias812]

I wonder... did this astonishing perfomance went on air around seattle one day, really?

[@aelspecto]

Siiiiiick!!!

[@JsRf13]

this is what we call a chune.

[@Marc_Angel]

Listen the Fitzgeral Remix . it's nice too.

[@centerofeurope]

Круто

[@anonymous8324]

Бог

[@bongi2184]

So I recently found out about Jon Hopkins, would I be wrong for playing this at my sets?😅

[@PGisthebesttea]

What are all his toys someone help me especially the XY things he's playing with

[@njm800]

xy pads are korg kaoss pad kp3

[@jamiesamuels3778]

And you can dance

[@richardgill1434]

That is as cool as fuck! WOW!

[@skettspsketti5484]

Watching Art....

[@ewelinad2802]

[@ajhingan]

this is ego high!!! the place where cocaine takes u...loved it!!!

[@vlixesispunk]

What is he doing with those kaoss pads ?

[@beatsandthat]

shit load of effects. Drums through one, pads and atmospheres through another, and any other shit through another KP.

[@coleford6197]

He jacks the tempo around a lot when he's using the loopers and then feeding that into the second KP for further punched-in effects, which gives a whole palette of possibilities for glitching up his dry sounds. Really clever use of these samplers.

I really wonder how the track sounds without all of those effects he is adding

[@gallolocoparisien]

Love this song, but still I got no idea what the hell DJ's are doing during sets. I mean, do they reproduce the entirety of the song or just passages or what ??

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

+Guillaume Parola There's some aspects of the song that exist in a kind of raw form, and that raw form is being shaped by a ton of different parameters. Producers are generally doing two things while they perform: first, they tell the system what needs to happen and when, so the raw sounds are playing when they're needed, and second, they're making the parameters whatever the hell they want instead of reproducing the entire song as it existed when it was published.

[@gallolocoparisien]

+Zuzu Superfly thanks for explaination

[@itsossian]

+Guillaume Parola Although, that is only the case for 'live' sets. In DJ sets the DJ plays a selection of songs, usually with the goal of making the transitions between the songs seamless.

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

itsossian Or in more elaborate cases, mixing stems from different songs to create something unique before committing to the next song.

[@sweetmusicsound]

:P

[@sweetmusicsound]

:)

[@tonitira]

tocats de lala djs

[@백승원-p2d]

잘자

[@evertoaster]

He is altering a very simple sequence but live with effectts its very much live or die.

[@dbpooper7512]

After being so immersed in the song, the utterly unimpressed and disinterested voice of the radio host at the end made me laugh; a musician's lot is lowly in this day and age.

[@olivierpreziosa1707]

DB Pooper agree hahaha

[@frankmeier4599]

He have to learn a lot ... He overload his songs. They sound not very good because he try to much. Less is sometimes more. He got talent, but I hear this annoying sound many times before. Standard melody and then fill it with some extras. Boy, think before you create another song for the garbage!

[@ShreyaSwamy]

Clearly you don't understand this music, so please go away with this grammar text book~

[@crobar_]

Frank Meier he's layering, something that he's known for, I agree less is sometimes more but there is no right or wrong in music

[@ThePikeGuysTv]

hahaha make a song for me frank.... you have no idea what you are talking about... maybe you dont like it... but standard melody.... garbage?

Bro how even dare you. Jesus Christ

[@adipocerousloaf9366]

Son, did you drop your ears on your way home?

[@MrTiralove]

Its a fucking beast

[@MrTiralove]

Tu que vas a estudiar

[@MrTiralove]

Genius