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To contact please email dan@noground.co.uk or danh24@hotmail.com...........Music: http://myspace.com/landcrash.. Film: http://myspace.com/landcrashfilm

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Music Brief Biography

Daniel Hopkins - AKA Hurra caine Land Crash – covers many bases. Commissioned as a film maker by Channel 4 his work has gained national exposure, whilst as a musician he has had spot play on some of London's cool internet radio stations - Resonance FM and ILL FM - as well as picking up plays and accolades in Sweden, Canada and Italy. Having self released three albums to date, Occupying a place in the current Avant Garde, Dan's work is impossible to pigeon hole, and it is far from conventional. Using a guitar
as an instrument in a totally new way, i.e. dropping shells, pebbles and stones on the strings and body to extract "noisy textures" which are then processed in real time through various filters and effects using a laptop, Dan discovers strange and intriguing ambient noises. What is produced for the listener is a musical voyage reminiscent on the one hand of no wave punk and then sweeping to more ethereal esoteric sound-scapes. His work is disorientating, strange and at the same time oddly familiar.

Hurra Caine Landcrash

Currently in Production

Video with Epic 45

Video with Spectrum Fires

EPK for Andy Robbins

Video for Herzoga

 

Exhibitions and Performances

For info on Hurra Caine Landcrash Performances please see the myspace click http://www.myspace.com/landcrash

Exhibition of the film 'Fields that Speak at Handwerkergasse at the World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, a branch of the School
of Fine Arts Saar in Germany. This is part of the Virtual Residency Project. http://www.virtual-residency.net

'Fields that speak is also showing at the Port Elliot Literature Festival

 

Past Work

Completed a video for the band 'the telescopes' the video is a for a track called 'flying' which was originally released in 1991, the track is now included on a ep called 'Auditory Illusions' which is being released by Double Agent Records

Here is a description from the Record Label

A mesmerising 25-minute live session recorded for Double Agent using an assortment of improvised acoustic and battery operated instrumentation to create new and exclusive versions of material past and present. Includes a free-drone re-working of the legendary Creation Records single 'Flying' with a new hypnotic video filmed by Dan Hopkins. This enhanced CD is limited to 500 copies, only available online and at Telescopes show

 
flying video still

Over the summer of 2005 a commission happened for Leicester City Council in conjuction with Axis Graphic Design.

I was asked to create several short films about the walks/journeys between the public art they had been commissioning over the years.

The final outcome was a book with a DVD with 4 short films of mine that was published at the end of 2005

Website with the films on it http://www.leicester.gov.uk/publicart/html_pages/artworks/video_walks.html