Mixes I have done, a variety of styles and genres on various radio stations and club environments::]

Recordings [DJ SET]

Recordings [Live Archive]

1. Bwyan 2024
2. Juiced 
3. Richie + Nickie Liquor Store

https://kop-z.bandcamp.com/album/juiced-richie-nickie-liquor-store

Kop-Z 2024 

Written By Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey

Juiced / Richie + Nickie Liquor Store

Soundkloudizmz: Contemplating Future Internet Based Communties 

exploration into ongoing sonic - visual testing in real time /diary entry for thyself  

interact and explore

Soundkloudizmz

Title: A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System
Artist(s): Kop-Z
Label: Second Born
Cat. No: SB002
Release Date: 27.02.2025
Physical Distribution: Second Born
Digital Distribution: EPM 

https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

https://boomkat.com/products/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system-8c002320-2bc3-4e88-9acc-92d0c9508192

Tracklist:

1] If I
2] Ape-Essence
3] Revision
4] Remote Actions on A Non-Linear Path
5] Eat Go Shop [Digital Exclusive ]

In ‘A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System’ five future-facing fusions of devilish drum programming with original synthesis and field recordings mark out Kop-Z as one to watch for anyone not already keeping a keen ear on the guy who’s maybe best known as one of The White Hotel’s reliable sound engineers. A pivotal cog in the TWH machine since it re-opened after lockdown in 2021, Kop-Z has arguably become its mutant poster-child, embodying the Salford venue’s dare-to-differ steez and naturally experimental bent in his uniquely warped, heavily club-focussed productions. 

Raised in Salford and based in the gooch of Moss Side/Rusholme, Kop-Z makes mesmerising music that draws on his Kenyan heritage as much as Manchester’s modernity, splicing his daily practice of observant field recording with mind and body-bending rhythms to give his music a playfully heavy sense of psychogeography and ravishing rhythmic psychedelia. Hyperlocal yet omnivorous in outlook, Kop-Z deploys a rushing flux of flavour and pressure that speaks directly to the madness of the mid 2020s from his unique perspective.

Under a title cadged from a book in a junk shop, Kop messes with ideas of entropy and accelerationism in its complex organisation and disruption of logic. Around a relatively lush but haunting centrepiece wormhole of half step pulses and swarming, headless voices in ‘If I’, he balances the wildness with an emotionally intelligent bias that inflects the cold rush and lash of ‘Ape Essence’ with a sensuous pathos, whilst his canny ear for sampling the texture and spirit of his locale lends deliciously alien frissons of humanity to ‘Eat Go Shop’ and ‘Remote Actions on a Non-Linear Path’, which both take well over 8mins to unfold intricate, abstract narratives ripe for the club as much as headphone absorption.

Written and Produced by Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare
Manufacturing by Press On, Middlesborough
Vinyl Background Artwork by Micah Giraudeau
Sticker Artwork by Rose Rukia Achieng Copsey
Distributed by Second Born
Total runtime: 22:43
© 2024 Second Born
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A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System

New track EP out now on Pinecone Moonshine, links and description below :)

https://pineconemoonshine.bandcamp.com/album/pcms-20221-fading-light-above-us-all

https://kop-z.bandcamp.com/


Kop-Z’s “Fading Light Above Us All” is centered on four breakbeat driven drum and bass tracks. The compositions are layered like ambient works including the one non-dnb track, “Feel Lost.”

“Feel Lost” opens with bright noise and rumbling sub frequencies like a forgotten microphone left recording. This freeform piece shows patience with infrequent industrial noises swelling up over the noise and then disappearing again.

The dnb tracks highlight one or two well known breaks, glitched and edited into fragments. The two step “Should U Stay” stands out by layering drums in a late 90s Tech Step way. The drums and bass lines are treated as layers in the collection of atmospheres (not as the singular focal points). Some layers are in the foreground, but many sit content in the background developing imagery of different spaces or times. The tones creating a feeling of urgency or forlorn are balanced by choir-like swells and uplifting harmonies. And yet reverb can make even these ethereal elements feel a bit ghostly.
credits
released January 28, 2022

Mastered by Macc.
Artwork by Scratch and Line.
license
all rights reserved

Fading Light Above Us All

Belief Show Thought

Should U Stay

Pressure

Feel Lost

The Wall

https://kop-z.bandcamp.com/album/the-wall

1. Altrincham
2. Do U Feel
3. honeydietyfunk
4. The Wall

This is the latest EP in my Bandcamp self release series titled 'The Wall'. This piece is less dancefloor orientated exploring a more experimental side of my work as you can hear with the two ambient pieces and the track 'honeydietyfunk' although I have still managed to slip in a one jungle track in the form of 'Do U Feel'.

Within this EP there has been a heavy use on vinyl sampling and sounds I have captured on my travels. This can be especially heard in track 3 which is based around a conversation on whether the best way to eat oats lol. This is also similar in the ambient pieces where the samples came almost exclusively from one trip. But yeh hope you enjoy, available on my Bandcamp and streaming platforms shortly.

Also I thought I would include the piece of artwork I created for my end of year uni project (also will release soon). Gonna put this up for availability on here and will also include my back catalogue for free with the purchase. (Available on my bandcamp)

More stuff to come in the near future :)))))

Do U Feel

Altrincham

Kop-Z - 2023 - 08 - 29 13 - 40 - 18 [2023 - 09 - 01 1913 (Live Session Excerpt) now available on my bandcamp to listen to and/or purchase

Decided to stop hoarding all the unreleased sounds this year, here is a live session excerpt from the end of last year, recorded with YouTube resampling then live screen recording of me moving samples with my keyboard and mouse)

https://kop-z.bandcamp.com/track/2023-08-29-13-40-18-2023-09-01-1913

2023 - 08 - 29 13 - 40 - 18 [2023 - 09 - 01 1913 (Live Session Excerpt)

Opening set from Brodinski, Shaped Noise and Hesska night at white hotel last month

whitey 23.02.23

Promo22nd March

@second-born-recs 
@porterbrook 

@kopz1 is a shining example the next generation of the UK’s Soundsystem experimentalists. 

Recorded within the walls of the White Hotel on Friday evening, Kop-Z presents an outstanding second hour of music, suited to the power of a 4-point rig in the North of England, on a (presumably) rainy night. 

Second Born - the antithetical means to common end(s): cooperative explorations of cultural output in the attention economy.

sb::Reject w// Kop-Z + Porter Brook 15.07.24

Bandcamp: https://kop-z.bandcamp.com/track/ardhi-na-roho-416e6369656e74204c616e6420-live-recording-260724


live recording from my Ableton piece @ Obeka's 'Commence EP' album launch. this live set is based around my Kenyan heritage, featuring audio and visuals recorded by my uncle, my brother and my friend Sammy in Kisumu, Malindi and Nairobi.

Electronical Improvisation

YouTube Link For Video: youtu.be/XM-ZF1-DUJs

Ardhi Na Roho 416e6369656e74204c616e6420 [live Recording 26.07.24]

recorded in my kitchen on the date above cmon big selection big trax big kitchens

29-05-24 [ktchnsezzion DDJmix] rainbowsherbv2 pinkguava ~#16 f2 pheno 21  Reels Based Psychoanalysis

KOP - Z - CROP Radio - 04/09/24

ⓘ A live recorded mix by Manchester’s own multifaceted musician KOP-Z from #KoR Live hosted on June 6th 2024 in Soup, Manchester. 

Now live on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/kopz1
https://www.instagram.com/kop_zd4n/?hl=en

photograph by:
https://www.instagram.com/isobelevescott/?hl=en

#KOMAvictim #KoR

#KoR Live 6/6/24: Kop-Z [Manchester, UK]

KOP Z - CROP Radio - 06/11/24

1. Bwyan 2024
2. Juiced 
3. Richie + Nickie Liquor Store

Kop-Z 2024 

Written By Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey

Richie + Nickie Liquor Store

Juiced

Bwyan2024

soundkloudizmz #1

117bpm

Memetic Memory Recall Corp: memeticmemoryrecallcorp

Good things happen slowdown bad thing happens

G Rapsid 280 [test1]

modular experiments between me, flames and chilly cv3. Over2 hrs worth of sounds, short composition.

Kop-Z, Flames Disperse, Chilly - Systems Down [modular Test]

#soundkloudizmz 3 

Ambient progression utilising YouTube tab orchestra with speed control and loops 

Ableton screen recorded at the same time 

Unsure of date, @flamesdisperse potentially involved around half way through where the Welsh harp comes in

Ambient Prog [youtube orchestra x Ableton screen recording]

fear tests [test infinity]

a flute and my voice layer with some drums, started the flute the other day n just got back to mine after going to my boys funeral n seeing my parents, added some drums now gonna go do some sound engineering for a bizzle at the dba

safe

Flute 0712 [test2]

Gorgonopsia is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to the Upper Permian, roughly between 265 and 252 million years ago.

Twosvn0624 (run4) (3)

Sus scrofa [test3] 1.83

Zaad Shop (test4)

COH vox [test1]

Kop-Z - Forwardfuture [2019-2024 mstr]

Available to pre-order from Second Born Bandcamp: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

Kop-Z first heard the term "A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System" in a book he found in an old junk shop in Manchester city centre for 2 quid. Its describes humans as systems constantly battling the entropy and world’s challenges around us in order to survive:

"Whilst this is true, we are also systems that work together. We think, learn, grow, and create beautiful things like art and music. I love this contrast. There are many similar contrasts in the spaces we inhabit: day and night, love and hate, going to bed at 9 p.m. or 9 a.m.”

He articulates this contrast by juxtaposing vignettes of human life with unrelentingly kinetic probability programming systems. Autobiographical field recordings, manually looped vinyl and childhood video games melt into psychedelic waves of sub-focussed pressure.
Throughout the record, these themes are engaged by a psyche imprinted by influences such as jungle, footwork, noise, rave, post punk, reggae, the Curry Mile and a river in the Peak District. This results in an auditory fabric that interlocks contrasting physical and digital systems across temporal contexts. Rejoicing in the expression of lived human experience, whilst surrendering to the chaos of the machine.

Written and Produced by Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare
Manufacturing by Press On, Middlesborough
Vinyl Background Artwork by Micah Giraudeau
Sticker Artwork by Rose Rukia Achieng Copsey
Distributed by Second Born

SB002: Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System EP [Previews]

Track title: Kop-Z - Ape-Essence 
Main Artist: Kop-Z
A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System [SB002]

Description:

I first heard the term "A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System" in a book found in an old junk shop in Manchester city centre for 2 quid. Its describes humans as systems constantly battling the entropy and world’s challenges around us in order to survive:

"While this is true, we are also systems that work together. We think, learn, grow, and create beautiful things like art and music. I love this contrast. There are many similar contrasts in the spaces we inhabit: day and night, love and hate, going to bed at 9 p.m. or 9 a.m.”

Available to pre-order from @second-born-recs Bandcamp: 
https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

Written and Produced by Daniel Ochieng Odhis Copsey
Mastered by Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare
Manufacturing by Press On, Middlesborough
Vinyl Background Artwork by Micah Giraudeau
Sticker Artwork by Rose Rukia Achieng Copsey
Distributed by Second Born

Buy link: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

Record Label: Second Born

Release Date: 27/02/2025

Kop-Z - Ape-Essence [Premiere]

examine-plain-242-2025-02-17-premiere(Kop-Z-Revision(SB002)).wav

taken from "Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System(SB002)"
releases February 27, 2025
https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

@kopz1
secondborn.net

london, UK
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Pre-order: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/a-non-equilibrium-thermodynamic-system

Kenyan-British audiovisual artist @kopz1 articulates contrast on his @second-born-recs debut with 'A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System', juxtaposing vignettes of human life through autobiographical field recordings, manually looped vinyl, and childhood video games.

'If I', the lead single on the five-track release, examines aural themes of identity, location and belonging.

Premiere: Kop-Z 'If I'

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contact -

kop.zinformation@gmail.com
            
https://kop-z.bandcamp.com

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