methyr

<a href="spotify:artist:2sMI7VsLWZpXc1GzKiNzM6" data-name="methyr">methyr</a> is the sonic experimentation of UK-based conceptual artist Mitchell Hopkins. His style consists of often noisy MIDI sections, acid synths and synthesised instruments along with modern classical piano textures and drones.


In his debut <a href="spotify:album:6XhlvLNSXCc1CD7VBh9Sp6" data-name="비행의 나는 꿈 / (1987 Cassette Rip)">비행의 나는 꿈 / (1987 Cassette Rip)</a>, Hopkins experimented with ambient textures and MIDI arpeggios. This release was received well and was released through his now “Question Records&quot; experimental electronic net-label. Following this release, he was offered the chance to release an album on <a href="spotify:artist:01EtE7AOXrksyHnSOWrHoN" data-name="OSCOB">OSCOB</a>&#39;s &quot;Bedlam Digital&quot; which resulted in the MIDI mayhem that was ANTI-ANTI. Later in the year Hopkins continued his foray into MIDI but borrowed the ambient textures from his work on <a href="spotify:album:6XhlvLNSXCc1CD7VBh9Sp6" data-name="비행의 나는 꿈 / (1987 Cassette Rip)">비행의 나는 꿈 / (1987 Cassette Rip)</a> creating Pro-Pro, released on Neetspeak Records. After Pro-Pro, Hopkins took a hiatus from the MIDI scene and released Court of Stars through Question Records; a sprawling ambient release based around a short story he had written about space exploration. <a href="spotify:album:36ByVZj9u386QTEZMmKRRk" data-name="Digital Autopsy">Digital Autopsy</a> was <a href="spotify:artist:2sMI7VsLWZpXc1GzKiNzM6" data-name="methyr">methyr</a>&#39;s first contact with fellow MIDI fanatic Wasn&#39;t who released the album on his And Options record label. This would not be the last time Hopkins worked with Wasn&#39;t and later in the year his <a href="spotify:track:5j6qu8o1gW8WS7biUZOtCy" data-name="Bloopers">Bloopers</a> record was released again through And Options and pressed onto cassette tape. Hopkins&#39;s last modern classical work was the late 2017 <a href="spotify:album:07cZXjs2tEDvNAmHozhhr8" data-name="Bower">Bower</a> which was released on his Question Records net-label a few months before it closed its doors.