Name: Schizophrenia by Geotron
Duration: 2 min 46 s
Description: Outstanding track! Who can do such an sick music? Well, Mouthful...

Outstanding track! Who can do such an sick music? Well, Mouthful...

Schizophrenia

Nu Ambient Grooves 2

Chris Zippel - Lela Loves U

Tracklist : 
01	Cinematic Orchestra, The Feat. Roots Manuva –	All Things To All Men' 
02	Bent –Swollen	
03	Hubtone –Train Ride	
04	Chris Coco –My Sunset	
05	Ulrich Schnauss –Wherever You Are
06	Delerium –Sensorium	
07	Aphex Twin –Tha		
08	Jon Hopkins –Cold Out There	
09	Union Jack –	Toucan	
10	Biosphere –	Kobresia	
11	Brian Eno –	And Then So Clear	
12	Bliss –	Don't Look Back	
13	Reporter –	Khanada


The Art of Chill 2 (mixed by Jon Hopkins)

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Opalescent, the debut album from Mercury Music Prize and Ivor Novello award nominated artist Jon Hopkins has been remastered and reissued for the first time on vinyl for its 15 year Anniversary in a special edition 2 LP gatefold with liner notes. (Pre-order from the Just Music Store now).

Back in 2001, (the year of Opalescent’s original release) the process of creating the album was a joyful one. At the age of 20 Jon had just signed to Just Music, so we bought him a PC and with a hotch-potch of software and some basic equipment, he set to work. His only assistance came from friend and regular collaborator, (another Just Music alumni) Leo Abrahams, who plays Opalescent’s sparkling, plangent guitars.

It was a record which, in numerous, enthusiastic reviews, was filed in the then burgeoning “chill-out” genre. But Jon had no interest in making relaxing or therapeutic music, which may help explain why Opalescent still sounds so distinctive, musically and emotionally complex. It was never meant to be enjoyed passively. It is in the contradictions between beauty and bass, gentleness and volume, ecstasy and elegy, that Opalescent derives its enduring otherness. Even 15 years on, it is never quite what you think it is.

For all Hopkins enjoyed making Opalescent, this was an uncertain period in his life. He was a shy and reclusive musician adrift in London and, like any artist, prey to doubts and apprehension. At its most radiant and awe-inspiring (“Lost In Thought”, “Halcyon”), Opalescent is tinged with something wistful, even mournful. The chilly and hollow, piano-led “Apparition” or the lost-in-deep-space ambience of stand-out track, “Cold Out There” (listen below), contain a kind of universal longing, an ache for love or transcendence, that you can hear in instrumental music as diverse as Tangerine Dream and jazz pianist Bill Evans’s solo pieces.

But while Opalescent was a series of tentative steps, it is also already recognisably the work of Jon Hopkins. In the hypnotic minimalism of “Private Universe” (a precursor to “Light Through The Veins” on Insides), or the dense gloaming of the title track, elements of the drum ‘n’ bass, classical and soundtrack influences that have come to define Jon’s work were clearly asserting themselves. In its passages of drone music, its use of repetition, its cinematic scale, its stark piano lines, the album is an audible antecedent of the very different Immunity – Jon’s acclaimed, recent breakthrough album.

Hopkins currently has an audience waiting in anticipation for his fifth album, a work that he is determined to take as far out-there as he can – and Opalescent is the perfect primer.

Listen to the remastered version of Cold Out There:

Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There (Opalescent Vinyl 2016)

Opalescent

Cold Out There

Opalescent (Remastered)

Razor Back

Fleas and Itches

Ton of Bricks

BLAT

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