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At just 25, Jon Hopkins seems to have the world at his feet. He has two critically acclaimed albums under this belt, he’s a favourite of TV music supervisors pm both sides of the Atlantic and he’s regularly talked about in the same breath as Brian Eno, William Orbit, Moby, Massive Attack and Mike Oldfield. Mr Hopkins has a lot to live up to. Opalescent, Jon’s impressive debut album was released in 2001 on Absolute Zero, an imprint of one of the UK’s most exciting and fiercely independent record labels, Just Music. The Evening Standard called it ‘a stunning debut album…it glitters where other chill-out albums are cloudy’, ‘a beautifully realised debut…which will delight and lovers of beautiful music’ gushed The Guardian, whilst The Independent On Sunday said that ‘somehow Hopkins makes it sound classic not cliched’. His follow up album, Contact Note, enjoyed similarly enthusiastic reviews, ‘chill out incarnate’ announced The Sunday Telegraph, and helped to establish Jon as a ‘geniu...