Get your 10 Booyaka barks HERE!

Also, while you’re at it, don’t forget that Bop’s “Minimal Drum + Bass 2″ sample pack is OUT NOW! Get your copy from the Hospital Shop now.

Whilst you’re at it, make sure you make the most of the Bop back catalogue sale and get previous works at a super discounted price, including:-

Clear Your Mind (CD) – £5
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The first ever long player on Med School, Bop’s debut album dropped in July 2009 and quickly established his reputation as one of electronic music’s most promising new talents. ‘Clear Your Mind’ features Bop’s debut single ‘Song About My Dog’ and gained widespread critical acclaim from press and producers alike, peaking at number 7 in the iTunes electronic albums chart.

Clear Your Mind (2×12″ VINYL) – £3.95
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Following on from the superb single “Song About My Dog”, Bop delivered his debut album, “Clear Your Mind”, on Med School. The vinyl version presents the breadth of Bop’s skill on double 12” vinyl.

Remix Your Mind (2×12″ VINYL) – £3.95
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In May 2010, Bop made a return to the airwaves with the highly successful “Remix Your Mind” EP, featuring five superb remixes from scene stalwarts Blu Mar Ten, Lynx, Subwave, remix competition winner Thinnen and Bop’s Med School label mate Unquote.

Don’t forget, all vinyl purchase come with the 320k MP3s included at no extra cost!!

In order to dig a little deeper into Igor’s creative mind, we caught up with the man himself to find out more…

Please introduce yourself – who you are, where you are from and what you do?
Igor Yanovsky contemporary painter, Russia, Saint-Petersburg. I draw pictures in my workroom, organizing my and my friend’s exhibitions and sometime I work as an illustrator.

What sort of art / graphic design do you usually do?
I’m a painter and I try to work in my own authentic style and do it without compromising. I don’t really do ” graphic design” as such;  the only design I do is for PR purposes for me and my friends’ art work, such as  invitations for exhibitions and so on.

Can you describe your ‘style’?
I call my style “Infantile Realism” – it’s kind of reality through the eyes of a child. Bright visualisation of reality in it’s primary form including the joyful animated fantasies, but without streams of other information enforced to the objects. This style is akin to graffiti, minimalism and pop art.

How did you come up with the idea of the pixel character? When I am working on graphics I quite often use the “zoom in” function and see pixels in close up form so I literally “drew from nature” to create the pixel character we can say.

What inspired you?
Of course I was inspired by the music in the first place. The Pixel in my work is some kind of maverick, as many creative people are, and he was glad to escape from society to the freedom. And through this escape he escapes the system where he was just a little part of global social machine, and then he becomes full of happiness  in his travels among the debris…

How long did it take you to complete the artwork?
I don’t remember how long it was but the idea was embodied in the sketches quite quickly. And then I spend around a week for elaboration of details and colouring.

What materials / programs did you use?
I paint by hand (black marker on white paper) then scan it and add in the colouring in Adobe Illustrator.

What’s the artistic process like for you?
My work consists of many parts such as ideas, time, money… I always have lots of ideas so I always have something to do. Availability of time and resources in order to actualize the ideas inspires me to produce quality art. This is my job probably. Organization and realization. Finished work does not exist for me, as for many artists awareness of perfection or completeness is almost unattainable. That’s why the works of dead artists are so appreciated, I think. The viewer or work holder calm that the painter never redo something, doesn’t remove anything and won’t try to do the picture even better.

What’s your favourite track from the Bop album “The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel”?
I love the whole album, but if there is one thing I like the most it is the beat in “Morning Air” as it’s got a nice soft and rounded character.

If you were the pixel, what amazing adventure would you like to go on?
I would be moving forward into the unknown and enjoying the freedom of moving higher and higher.


Make sure you grab a copy of Bop – “The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel” on Med School from the Hospital Shop: 12″ vinyl shrink wrapped with CD / CD / Digital Download

Check out the Igor designed Bop t-shirt from the Hospital Shop.

For more of Igor’s artwork have a look at: http://igor-yanovsky.livejournal.com

ORDER THE ALBUM NOW:
VINYL LP (with 11-track CD included)
CD
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Why not grab an exclusive Bop Pixel t-shirt too?

You can purchase the album from all good record stores including… Hospital Shop, iTunes, Amazon, Chemical, Record Store, Boomkat, Juno, Piccadilly, Drum&Bass Arena, Juno Download, TrackItDown, Catapult, Beatport and more!

Priced at £17.00, this is the only place you can get your hands on these, so make sure you bag one before they sell out!

Pre-order the brand new album at the same time and both items will ship together this Thursday (26th May 2011).

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THE TEST PRESSES HAVE SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN STILL PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW!

The single-disc vinyl long player features 7 tracks from the album:

A1. The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel
A2. 8-Bit Cosmos
A3. Sunrain
A4. The End Is The Beginning (with Jalex)
B1. Extraterrestrial Creatures Are Stealing You From Me From The Bedroom (feat. Bev Lee Harling)
B2. Intercontinental Meltdown
B3. Subwave – I Need You (Bop Remix)

Strictly limited to one copy per person on a first come first served basis.

The stunning new album ‘Clear Your Mind’ by Bop is out now, available from the Hospital Shop and a whole host of quality music retailers.

BUY A COPY NOW…

CD | 2×12″ VINYL | MP3 (inc. exclusive Bop mix)

Look out for an exclusive ‘Clear Your Mind’ mix by Bop available as part of the download bundle! Full info here.

Also, hit iTunes now for the latest instalment of the Hospital Podcast… a special ‘Bop Cast’. Tony ‘London Elektricity‘ Colman interviews the man himself on Skype and Bop has supplied a bonus mix for you to check out. Click the Podcast logo below to listen!

Tracklist for the mix:
00:00 Bop – Lost In This World [Med School]
03:50 Paranoid Society – Qunaba [Dub]
06:05 Oak – Bedroom Community [Microfunk Dub]
09:24 Bop – I Found You [Med School]
11:16 Instra:mental – Watching You [Non Plus+ Dub]
13:53 Bop – Ataraxia [Med School]
16:08 Despot – Texture [Dub]
19:11 Jalex – Giant Rocks 80 [Dub]

Bop Cast Mix (as featured on the Hospital Podcast) by Med School Music

Pre-order the album now from the Hospital Shop…
CD (£7.95)
2×12″ vinyl (£10)

Head to the ‘Clear Your Mind’ release page for audio clips and full info.
 
Like a Russian cosmonaut ascending through the stratosphere, you will capture a unique vantage point as you look down on planet d&b… space suits at the ready, the effects of weightlessness may be experienced!

Having completely sold through, there are now more copies of ‘Song About My Dog’ b/w ‘Random Thoughts’ available on the Hospital Shop.

If you missed out first time round, now’s your chance to grab a copy HERE.

This stunning 12″ from Bop features the beautiful “Song About My Dog”, which is dedicated to his pug named Booyaka, and the glitch-fuelled charm of “Random Thoughts”. Some might call it drum & bass, but this is simply electronic music at its absolute finest.

The intricacies of these tracks are appropriately packaged with exclusive hand drawn artwork, a first for Med School.

AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD RETAILERS AND THE HOSPITAL RECORDS WEBSHOP… 12″ VINYL | 320K MP3.

FULL RELEASE INFO AND AUDIO PREVIEWS… HERE.

* All copies of 12″ vinyl have sold out on the Hospital Shop, there may still be some available at the following…