deanhopkinson

About deanhopkinson

Biography:

Dean Hopkinson BIO

Dean Hopkinson has been a DJ for the past 6 years playing a versatile style of Trance with sets ranging from 'Uplifting Melodic' to club driven 'Tech Trance' making him the perfect choice for any Trance event.

After starting out at the other end of the decks (the dance floor) at a young age Dean grew up going to the weekly event in Sheffield 'Gatecrasher' where his love for the genre grew listening to the likes of Matt Hardwick, Scott Bond and Armin Van Buuren the time came for Dean Hopkinson to take to the stage.
His first gig was a house party back in 2007 in front of 50 people where he quickly realised the huge difference between mixing in a bedroom and mixing to a crowd, the buzz he felt drove Dean to practice hard and strive for more gigs.
After around 3 years of house parties and small gigs Dean Hopkinson knew he had what it took and decided he would also start working on productions. After spending the last year learning to play the piano the time felt right to invest in some top of the range software, VST's and his first MIDI keyboard.

In 2011 Dean Hopkinson released the first of his online shows 'RESIDENCY' which offered listeners an hour mix of his favourite tracks for that month and he quickly built up a sizeable following of listeners. With the show taking off Dean looked to place productions high on the agenda for 2011 and decided to team up with fellow DJ/Producer (K2F) under the name Kdr where they released a fantastic smash up 'Neptune Project vs Solarstone vs Dean Hopkinson – 7 Aztec Cities (Kdr Mashup)' which received amazing reviews. Later in 2011 Dean Hopkinson secured a regular local slot running a weekly trance event in Chesterfield and finished the year in perfect style getting on the line-up for the Pre Party, Off The Rails Closing Party 2011 which also saw the likes of Andy Moor, Ronski Speed, Jordan Suckley and the UK debut of Mr Pit.

Dean Hopkinson kicked off 2012 by releasing a huge production under Kdr called 'Novacaine' and landed a monthly 2 hour slot on the esteemed internet radio station trancesonic.fm where he moved the 'Residency' show.

The future looks bright for Dean Hopkinson as he looks to head to Ibiza for the summer of 2012 and with a number of productions set for release later in the year, 2012 could prove to be huge in his career.

Location:

Chesterfield

Interests:

Music, Production & Clubbing

Occupation:

DJ & Producer under the name KDr with DJ k2f