He hasn't been listening to much new music lately, preferring trusted favourites such as Harold Budd and Brian Eno's classic The Pearl.
His October appearance at the Royal Festival Hall was a sold-out success, with shows to follow in Brooklyn and Brighton before a 2015 audiovisual extravaganza in Brixton. Hopkins flew to Tokyo early this month to begin work on the follow-up to his 2013 album Immunity, continuing the demanding tour schedule which has truly launched him as a solo artist. It's an extraordinary sound, about a million balls clanging around in rows of machines. "And I haven't even been in, because my ears are practically bleeding. "It's the most ridiculous noise I've ever heard," says Hopkins. Any balls that successfully escape are traded in their thousands for tatty prizes, and because gambling for money is notionally illegal in Japan, prizes are later exchanged for cash amidst the impenetrable din of the parlour. A mesmerising cross between pinball and slot machines, the game makes addicts of players obsessing over steel balls plummeting from the top of vertical boards, bouncing off pins as they fall. Jon Hopkins is in Japan listening to the mechanical clatter of the pachinko parlours.
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