“He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound”: Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno

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While his own albums are never likely to top the sales charts - concept ambient records that are designed to last the length of a ketamine trip rarely do - Jon Hopkins is celebrating the fact that, “in a surprising twist”, two collaborations meant that he recently managed to hit number 1 in both the UK and the US at the same time.

Charli XCX’s ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’ did the business for him in Britain, with Hopkins appearing alongside The 1975 on the rework of I might say something stupid.