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Artist
Kopasetik
12+ albums
ambientchilloutRandom Access Recordingsdowntempo
about
Kopasetik has been recording original music since the mid-90's, '96 to be precise. He started creating much earlier, when he got his first electronic keyboard as a child...the first of the Casio family with an onboard sampler, known as the SK-1. He would sample noises and such around the house and spend HOURS toying with them in any way he could, limited only by the keyboard's technology. "Kopa", as those musically close to him sometimes call him, knew even then that electronic music was how he wanted to express his creativity. He spent several years later in Life experimenting with various professional-grade synthesizers, looking to take musical matters in his own hands whenever finances would permit such a step. This search culminated in the purchase of a Roland XP50, which was a fairly high-end machine in its day. Roland's "Fantom" workstations would do nicely as a more modern equivalent, and said purchase IS on his "to do" list, again when finances permit. Anyway, the XP50 was essential in the creation of Kopa's first all-original, album-length project....a 90 minute cassette, the only copy of which is still stashed away for safekeeping. There was a short while when he tried playing in a band, this experience bringing out fully the Roland's ability to enhance, or replace, any of a group's other instruments on a whim. He set up the synth for one of the group's sessions, with every intention of playing a support role to the rest of the instrumentation. However, the rest of
