Kopasetik

Newport, WA USA 

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, the SK-1. Kopasetik would sample noises and such around the house and spend hours toying with them in anyway he could, limited only by the keyboard's technology. Kopasetik knew even then that electronic music was how he wanted to express his creativity. Kopa spent several years later in Life experimenting with various professional-grade synthesizers, looking to take musical matters in his own hands whenever the 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 his first all-original, album-length project....a 90 minute cassette, the only copy of which Kopasetik would still have stashed away for safekeeping. He tried playing in a band, this experience bringing out fully the Roland's ability to enhance and/or replace any of a group's other instruments on a whim. Kopasetik set up the synth for one of their sessions, with every intention of playing a support role to the rest of our instrumentation. However, the rest of our membership was all too interested in stealing centerstage from one another, so what was initially going to be a group effort disintegrated right there on the spot. In answer to the lack of teamwork, Kopasetik unplugged from the mixer, hid under his headphones, recreated and sequenced parts of each "solo" into a project that would have been capable of standing on its own, then let that play out on the PA, working out a sequence for the individual parts in real time, until it dawned on the rest of the group what hehad done.  He decided then that pursuing his own musical inspirations would be a more appropriate road for him to follow, and with that thought in mind, he packed up and bid the rest of them to see what he could find on my own, musically speaking.

The XP50 has been out of comission for a few years now, but the creative process is anything but standing still. Kopasetik is now using FL Studio, formerly known as "FruityLoops", as the backbone of his musical projects. Great software for a great price, and infintely more powerful than most people give it credit for...plug plug. The timing surrounding the Roland's "death" compared with my introduction to FL Studio he finds somewhat peculiar, in that one stopped working almost exactly as he found the other. Since Kopasetik started using FL, he has experimented with electronic subgenres ranging from the laidback, almost meditative sounds of ambient, through the tempo range to the heart-pounding exercise regiment called drum'n'bass, but the last year or two has been dedicated to that sound which is featured on the Random Access website. Kopa states that  "Random Access is one of a few avenues I now have at my disposal for bringing my sound to "the masses", "and I'd like to take a moment to thank Marcus for allowing me to be, as I understand it, "the different one" in the RA music library."

Again, take a listen to any of Kopasetik's work as published on the RAR website for a taste of just how "different"...

Contact Kopasetik: teknohed333@hotmail.com (No Spam)

Kopasetik is also well known for being a moderator for FL Studio's Collab.

Collab is a program bundled in FL Studio for artist to network, chat, and collaborate on music projects together. He is also well known for tutoring novice producers using FL Studio and is also a gifted graphic design artist.  He is a very gifted kat!!!