Copy (musician)
Encyclopedia
| Copy | |
|---|---|
| Name | Marius Libman |
| City | Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States... |
| Record Label | Audio Dregs Audio Dregs Audio Dregs is an independent record label run by electronic musicians and brothers E*vax and E*rock. It is based in Portland, Oregon and has released records from artists such as Ratatat and Global Goon.- Artists :* O.Lamm* Lullatone* Melodium* Kinn... |
| Releases | |
| Mobius Beard (2006) | |
| Hair Guitar (2007) | |
| Hard Dream (2010) | |
| Other Links | |
| MySpace | |
| COPY | SoundCloud |
Copy, real name Marius Libman, is an electronic music artist on the Audio Dregs
Audio Dregs
Audio Dregs is an independent record label run by electronic musicians and brothers E*vax and E*rock. It is based in Portland, Oregon and has released records from artists such as Ratatat and Global Goon.- Artists :* O.Lamm* Lullatone* Melodium* Kinn...
record label. He has released 3 full-length albums, along with 3 "DJ Copy" remix CDs. Copy was chosen as the winner of Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Willamette Week is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture....
's "Best New Band" award for 2006, which showcases the top new artists in Copy's native Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
.
Bootleg Remix CDs
In 2006, Copy released his first remixRemix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
CD under the 'DJ Copy' moniker - it featured 6 remixes of R&B/pop artists including Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
and Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. Blige has...
. The disc was called "The Diva Mixtape" and was not released digitally. The next year, DJ Copy released another remix CD - this time of rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is an American Hip-Hop/R'n'B band from Cleveland, Ohio formed in 1991. It originally consisted of rappers Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Wish Bone. Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994, when Bone...
. The disc was titled "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony-N-Copy", and featured 6 remixes of songs by the group including "Ecstasy" and "Tha Crossroads". The disc came with CD order of Hair Guitar from Audio Dregs. In the same frame of time that Hard Dream was produced, Copy created a remix CD of R. Kelly
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly , better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play...
songs called "The Pied Piper of Electro". It came free with a preorder of the Hard Dream CD from Audio Dregs. Regarding the R. Kelly CD, Libman said in an interview with Willamette Week that he "grew up listening to a lot of hip-hop and R&B, but it’s never really come to the forefront of [his] music until now".
Hard Dream
Copy's first two albums were released in close succession (2006 and 2007), and he didn't release much music until 2010 (according to the Willamette Week's Local Cut, he was doing a lot of DJing around Portland), when Hard Dream (to be released on Audio DregsAudio Dregs
Audio Dregs is an independent record label run by electronic musicians and brothers E*vax and E*rock. It is based in Portland, Oregon and has released records from artists such as Ratatat and Global Goon.- Artists :* O.Lamm* Lullatone* Melodium* Kinn...
) was released on September 21. Before the album was released, a track from the album, called "Breakfast" was released for download and reviewed by XLR8R and Local Cut, a local Portland music journal. An interview was also conducted by Disco Workout, a music blog, and two more songs were made available for listen. Libman stated in that Disco Workout review that Hard Dream was intended to have a "sort of darker, moodier tone" than previous albums.
Albums
Copy has released three albums on Audio Dregs. All are produced in an electronic style. Copy calls his music "Electro Disco Pop", and it features many different varieties of software or otherwise synthesizers, commonly layered, along with electronically sequenced drum beats. During his live shows, Copy plays a keytarKeytar
A keytar is a relatively lightweight keyboard that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a strap. Keytars allow players a greater range of movement compared to conventional keyboards, which are placed on stands...
and sometimes features a live drummer.
Tracklist
- 1. A Slight But Delicious Warble (5:10)
- 2. Just Expect (3:44)
- 3. Like A Turtle (5:23)
- 4. Backward (3:55)
- 5. Calling You Back (3:13)
- 6. It's A Little Too Late (4:49)
- 7. Afro Oven (4:18)
- 8. Plagiarhythm (4:08)
- 9. Tailored Pants (5:30)
- 10. Thanks For The Pen (3:48)
- 11. The Wheel (3:16)
Tracklist
- 1. Fist (4:36)
- 2. This is Promotional (3:29)
- 3. Assassinator (6:06)
- 4. Zipper Problems (3:56)
- 5. Could You Like Her? (3:51)
- 6. See You Around Maybe (4:11)
- 7. Actual (4:17)
- 8. You Can Not Believe It
- 9. Remembering Florida (4:17)
- 10. Closet Face (5:18)
Tracklist
- 1. One Less Time (8:06)
- 2. Shoots (3:12)
- 3. Breakfast (5:14)
- 4. Something (4:26)
- 5. I Can Smell It (3:22)
- 6. Real Scared (3:11)
- 7. It Could Have Been More (5:06)
- 8. I Didn't Know (3:28)
- 9. On One Condition (4:43)
- 10. Stay Away From It (4:39)
- 11. She Sings Like an American Car (iTunes Bonus Track) (5:34)
Other Releases
Copy remixed RatatatRatatat
Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"...
's song "Falcon Jab" for the Japanese release of their album LP3
LP3
LP3 is the third studio album by Ratatat, released on July 8, 2008. It contains the single "Shiller" originally released on 7" vinyl. The duo experimented with different genres as well as synthesizer patches, percussion instruments, sound effects, and samples...
. He also released a two-track LP for The Journal of Popular Noise. Copy's full discography can be viewed on his website or at Discogs. He has been featured on Music (For Robots)
Music (For Robots)
Music For Robots is a mp3 blog written and curated by a collective of friends who originally met at Bates College, who founded the website in April 2004. The blog made history in 2004 when it hosted a song by the band The Secret Machines provided to them by Warner Bros...
and released a song ("Has Your Life Changed") on their second compilation of music they've written about. His track "Playered" was on the BBC's One Life Left
One Life Left
One Life Left is Europe's first and only dedicated videogames FM radio show. It is presented by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury. Earlier host Robert Howells stopped appearing on the show, to be later replaced by Simon. It includes news, reviews, features, competitions and a weekly...
compilation Music to Play Games By.
In July 2011, Copy created a SoundCloud
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...
page and released two previously unreleased tracks.