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COPY

“Like the themes to Nintendo games you never played transmuted into baroque (and bangin’) dancefloor epics.” —Brent Bell, PDX Pop Now!

Copy (AKA Marius Libman) has created an emotionally affecting sound that doesn’t neglect the dance floor. Combining dense harmonies, delivered in an 8-bit baroque electro style, Copy delivers snap-tight digital beats. Fuzzy bass synths ride syncopated drum patterns, jump-cutting into ambient spaces and cresting in victorious melodic themes. The result is electronic pop that will appeal to both hardcore sound boys / IDM nerds and the casual listening masses.

At age 13 Marius started playing in punk bands, moving through math rock and improv metal before discovering electronic music, which in turn led to the jazz fusion of Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. In the midst of this musical amalgamation, Libman developed a parallel obsession with the deceptively simple sounds of studio pop, Italo disco, hip-hop, and electro, which soon found him dropping excellent party sets under the alias DJ Copy. Meanwhile, countless hours were spent honing his production craft, mingling the lush pop of Tears for Fears, OMD, Dr. Dre, Yaz, Pinback and Giorgio Moroder with the musical intricacy of Aphex Twin and Coltrane.