La Calavera's Artist of the Month: The mysterious Clutchy Hopkins

Here is a music Video which uses the animated TIME MASTERS as a backdrop for his beats. Scroll down to read more.



Quien es Clutchy Hopkins!?!? That's the question that has the underground music beat scene ablaze. Who is Clutchy Hopkins? A mysterious individual with connections to the Inland Empire who leaves tapes with recordings of the most amazing chill beats anyone has ever heard. Here is some information found on Ubiquity.com regarding Mr. Hopkins:

"We first became interested in releasing new tunes by Hopkins when Ubiquity crew set off on a search for the best records we could find. On one of our travels we stopped in the Mojave desert at the local swap meet in the town of Victorville, CA. Instantly luck led us to a few record crates jam-packed with classic soul, funk and jazz gems. But this happened to be the least of our discoveries. Next to the crates was a box of reel to reel tapes. Blindly buying the tapes out of curiousty, we brought them back to office only identifying the sounds from the tapes with the name that was etched on the casing: C. Hopkins. We spent a few months trying to track down this mystery man with no luck...up until internet postings, myspace videos and a call out of nowhere took us to closer to the source.

Kelli Hopkins, the daughter of one Clutchy Hopkins, called to explain that the tapes contained unreleased material from her father. We were finally able to reach out to our reclusive mystery man.

He is a peaceful mysterious man that has given us some of the best records in our collection. We would like to thank Clutchy for bringing us the music that he has made, and for letting us share it with the people.

Ubiquity will release Walking Backwards, an LP worth of new material from Mr. Hopkins. CD will include bonus DVD with Clutchy Hopkins testimonials and stories from those who've had the oppotunity to cross paths. Walking Backwards will be released February 5, 2008."

Este senor has the best beats La Calavera's ears has listened to thus far. For more info check out:

www.ubiquityrecords.com
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=88812747

And La Calavera's future brother-in-law (Dominic Wagner) has had the RARE opportunity to actually visit/interview Clutchy Hopkins at his secret desert location. Look for his article in a future issue of WAX POETICS:

www.waxpoetics.com

Es todo la Calavera has to say. Below are Parts I and II on: WHO IS CLUTCHY HOPKINS. Enjoy.

Hasta La Proxima,

La Calavera #42