Daniel Hopkins

Dear All.

This year has led to an interesting amount of creative endeavours so far.

1. Album

The most exciting was the release of my fourth album of experimental music on the record label ‘split femur recordings’
http://www.splitfemurrecordings.com/
The album called ‘Unanswered Questions’ was a proper CD release and also available on i-tunes and various other download stores.

It has been having some good reviews. In particular The Wire Magazine said

‘Unanswered Questions is a strong collection of pieces, where editing and (re)assembling take precedence over spontaneity, with the momentum on the majority on these tracks provided by Hopkins’s layering and juxtaposing of edits. For the most part, he resists the sort of drone based sound that dominates so much Ambient experimentation, and instead places the stress on reverberation and crackling, percussive noise. There’s not much capacity for drift – deep pulses, the hard twanging of guitar strings and the repetition of echoes sit at the core of Hopkins’s work.’

Page 61, The Wire, Sept 2008.

To the uninitiated I make music under the name of ‘Hurra caine Landcrash’ and have a website and myspace where my music can be listened to and downloaded.

http://www.landcrash.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/landcrash
http://www.last.fm/music/Hurra+caine+Landcrash
http://landcrash.wordpress.com/

2.Gig

I also have a musical performance coming up on the 27th of September at the events called ‘Pins and Needles’ at Café OTO in Dalston on London.
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/
Tartaruga Records present ‘Pins and Needles’ – an alldayer of folk, improv, avant, drone, and spine-shivering noises.
www.myspace.com/pinsandneedlesnoises

Best Regards

Dan

Dan Hopkins
Filmmaker, Musician, Artist.
email: dan@noground.co.uk
web:  http://www.landcrash.co.uk
label: http://www.noground.co.uk
myspace music: http://myspace.com/landcrash
myspace film : http://myspace.com/landcrashfilm