HOPKINS,JON - IMMUNITY[10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION] Price: €14.99 Format: Compact Disc Availability: Immediate Dispatch

REMASTERED 2023 2 CD

Double CD in a gatefold pack, booklet with liner notes

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Jon Hopkins' seminal fourth album, Immunity, a newly remastered version of the record is now available.


Tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. We Disappear - Remaster 2023

2. Open Eye Signal - Remaster 2023

3. Breathe This Air - Remaster 2023

4. Collider - Remaster 2023

5. Abandon Window - Remaster 2023

6. Form By Firelight - Remaster 2023

7. Sun Harmonics - Remaster 2023

8. Immunity - Remaster 2023

Disc 2 (CD and download + download code with vinyl)

1. Immunity (Asleep Version)

2. Form by Firelight (Asleep Version)

3. Breathe This Air (Asleep Version)

4. Open Eye Signal (Asleep Version)

5. Abandon Window (Moderat Remix)

6. Breathe This Air (feat. Purity Ring)

7. We Disappear (feat. Lulu James)

8. Open Eye Signal (George Fitzgerald Remix)

9. Collider (Pangaea Remix)


A confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place, Immunity felt and still feels, like the accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins' mind. It brought together everything he had learnt and experienced already but also paved the way for the evolution of his future records, most recently, 2021's Music For Psychedelic Therapy.



Immunity was a turning point in Hopkins' career. On its release in 2013, Immunity announced itself as a powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focussed music Hopkins had ever made. However, Immunity was never just about the techno behemoths - of which there were several. Hopkins wanted the album to help people to reach different states of mind. From graceful and mournful piano notes, stirring choral drones, he was always seeking new melodic routes to aid this and his desire to use physical, real-world sounds as the basis for many of the album's rhythms allowed him to craft one of the most human electronic albums of the decade.

Jon Hopkins: “Immunity was written between late 2010 and early 2012. I poured everything into it, taking so much care over every element. This record changed my life. I went from playing 500 cap venues to 5000 cap in less than a year. The whole thing was a whirlwind, and has since given me the freedom to follow any creative route that comes to me. Making and releasing it was a very special experience.

I have never had anything I've made remastered before, but had occasionally wondered if the loud mastering on Immunity is something I would still have done today. Guy Davie, who worked on the original, returned to the pre-masters, and we tried to do a slightly more subtle job. However, immediately it felt like it lost that sense of ‘pressure' that I've come to realise is an important characteristic of the album, which is particularly present during the heavy tracks. I was suddenly wary of messing with it, creatively changing something that people were familiar with and that had become important to them. So we went back to the original settings, but added a subtle expander at the end to open it out a little. The result feels like it has a little more breathing space, whilst retaining the grit and intensity it always had. This re-master also gave us the opportunity to run it through Guy's EMI desk at 96k for the first time.”