Clutchy Hopkins

Beats, Jazz, Rock

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Nobody knows for sure who the elusive, desert dwelling Clutchy Hopkins really is. A multi instrumentalist from California, his music brings to mind DJ Shadow and Shawn Lee, both of whom could be the man behind Clutchy. This is music that wanders through you, just press play and step away, its a journey. 

 

 Clutchy Hopkins and Fat Einstein – High Desert Low Tide     High desert crunch meets city life punch for this collaborative project in sound. Instrumental elements of Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock and more resonate throughout the record. Acoustic and electric instrumentation set the tone, and in their individual styles Clutchy & Fatty navigate your journey through psych-folk caverns of cactus dust to bloodshot rust-covered marine layer funk. It’s completely distinctive, original, and fresh, paying homage to the past, present and future. Visionary Folk-Funk. – Mike Jones, M.I.M.S.

 

 

There’s a spare, spacious approach on Walking Backwards that almost reminds us of the energy that we first felt in DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking work of a decade before — a similar love of gritty, organic source material — and an ear for putting it together with lots of dark twists and turns that balance nicely between classic funk and current hip hop production sensibilities. The flavor of each tune changes nicely — making the album way more than just a clichéd collection of beats…” – Dustygroove

 

 

The music on The Life of Clutchy Hopkins is a marvelously concocted and amazingly fresh & contemporary mesh of funk, hip-hop, jazz, and straight-out weird orchestral psychedelia (Hopkins played all the instruments himself, which include drums, bass, guitar, organ, flute, melodica, and assorted percussion) – Bandcamp

 

 

           2009’s Fascinating Fingers by Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins

 

 

Clutch of the Tiger sounds like a collection of film-noir tracks run through the Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee magical music machine. It’s dusty and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly beats and other-worldly funk. Famous comic book creator Jim Mahood (who has worked on Spiderman/Marvel, Clerks, Grrl Scouts, Stupid Comics, etc etc) liked the tunes so much he provided the killer artwork for the package! – Ubiquity Records

 

 

Music is my Medicine –  Late in ’08, Ubiquity was approached by the mysterious Misled Children about another project from Clutchy Hopkins, the man they claim to represent. A vintage Caribbean tracksuit jacket was found in the office fridge, and written in permanent marker on the inside right arm was their request for a meeting where we would “get another piece of the Clutchy Hopkins puzzle.” Cutting a long story short, we acquired a bag of 2-inch reels that contained the dusty, dubbed out Clutchy Hopkins tracks on this LP. Take a pinch of Hopkins deep musical madness and add a sunshine-blessed dubbed-out twist, and that is “Music Is My Medicine”. Ubiquity 

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