Biography

Hurra caine Landcrash. Sounds like the name… Whatever that means to you…

Daniel Hopkins is an artist who makes music and films, and is from the South West of England but currently based in the North.
His music is about landscapes, texture and the noise from within.
His film work range from experimental short films about travelling, roads and architecture. To music video’s for bands like ‘the telescopes’ ‘füxa’ ‘mountain men anonymous’ ‘epic 45’ ‘soulo’

What people have said about his work..

From the Creative Stoke Website..

http://www.creativestoke.org.uk/01-profile.html

Instant Jplug (2003) has a Japanese-sounding epic soundtrack by Arcade, reminicent of some late-90s tracks by Aphex Twin. To this Dan opens with rice-paper like panels that give way to organic textures and baroque geometric abstraction, later collaged with hypersatured plants - plants that then slowly mutate back into pixelated abstraction towards the end. Closer to the Edge has a soundtrack by the Derby-based band Development of Shape, and returns again to the theme of travel, on roads at night. This is a moody introspective film that can't match up to the 35mm polish of Driven, although it neverthless manages to end on a similar claustrophobic note as a ghostly road-movie vista opens up. Closer to the Edge is also available as a 3-inch 11-minute DVD release on Dan's noground-r label (ng-r05).

From Angry Ape..

http://angryape.com/reviews/2008/05/29/hurra-caine-landcrash-unanswered-questions

Film-maker Daniel Hopkins is the musician behind Hurra Caine Landcrash and finds his 4th record, 'Unanswered Questions', suitably released by the relativey new Midlands-based imprint Split Femur – a label that is intent on opening new doors for electronic and experimental music. Hopkins has been busy opening doors himself. A portal, in fact, to an untapped region of other-worldly guitar experimentation sounds. 'Unanswered Questions' concepts are based around the tones and textures captured by dropping stones, shells and pebbles onto the strings and body of a guitar. The sounds extracted are then, in turn, processed in real-time using filters and other laptop functions.

A recipe for disaster, perhaps, to the most cynical of us, but despite traveling into uncharted territories, Hopkins handles the essential dynamics very well indeed. Creating a body of work that is composed of strange, disconcerting sounds as webs of clouding textures and abstract tones combine with tangles of imperfections and processed ‘scratches’ to form an occasionally tentative, oftentimes comforting ambient mist.

From Cyclic Defrost..

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/review.php?review=1314

Hurra Caine Landcrash is an intriguing work from the always-interesting experimental UK label No Ground R. The solo work of Dan Hopkins and recorded between 2002 and 2004, it seems to exist somewhere in the netherworld between ambient music and bedroom experimentation. It's charm is that it never really explicitly defines itself and you're just left with its gentle low key warmth and a lack of certainty of how, or even if the parts fit together. There are moments of inspired idiosyncratic genre bending, such as Seminar 4, which seems to want to be an ambient guitar scape, yet an insistent electronic almost house pulse forms and disparate sounds begin to collide. It's quite simply constructed yet its desire to move between ill-defined genres results in a number of expectations to form, and then be reassessed as they are consistently thwarted by strange new unexpected and unusual elements. It's quite inspired yet still emotionally affecting; and whilst Hopkins compositional decisions and intent remain somewhat of a mystery, its impact does not.