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Copy is an electronic, one man band from Portland, Oregon made up of Marius Libman. Last year, Copy proved that geography isn’t everything. Because while Europe and the East Coast once monopolized the modern electro-house sound, Portland now lays claim to its own innovator who has taken the genre to new and unexpected places. Marius Libman deconstructs the conventions of standard electronic fare and then constructs them again. It’s a relentless attack of house beats channeled through the speakers of a club attended by booms, pops, and beats. Copy’s debut, “Mobius Beard” (Audio Dregs), displayed a knack for morphing headphone-friendly synthpop with floor shaking dance music that tore up stereos and clubs throughout the city of Portland and beyond.

“Hair Guitar,” Copy’s latest album, is good as in really good, experimentally indie, melodic electronic music without all the thumping. Libman has gone a bit less dancey and a bit more melodic for his newest album. “Hair Guitar” is a swift collection of tunes your Nintendo DS wishes it was capable of shaking out.

Copy’s music is upbeat and happy and is a great match for club scenes in films and TV shows or unique, high-end commercials.

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Marius Libman, a.k.a. the “the best electronic musician in Portland,” a.k.a. Moebius Beard, drops delicious beats that make the ladies swoon and the hipsters sway. As his best-known moniker, DJ Copy, Libman has edged his way toward infamy by jumping on an increasingly crowded indie bandwagon: he remixes Top 40 pop.

Folks lucky enough to catch Copy live, or smart enough to pick up a copy of the Moebius Beard’s LPs, are able to snag his homemade mix disc of luscious dance-magic remixes of an unlikely sort. On the “Diva Mixtape Vol. 1,” Copy turns Mariah Carey’s “Emotion” into throwback synth-y greatness, TLC’s “No Scrubs” into a wicked old-school hip hop beat atop evil-synthesizer stabs, while Janet Jackson’s “Someone To Call My Lover” morphs into an 8-bit video game soundtrack.

Copy’s latest release, the fully instrumental “Hair Guitar” on the Portland-based Audio Dregs (run by the brother of a member of the similarly minded Ratatat), fits well with the label’s aesthetic of day-glo, private mind-trip electronica. “Could You Like Her” is an upbeat banger that reveals intricate tweaks that bounce all over your headphones. “Zipper Problems” is a slinky club track with a seductive bassline enhanced by spacious rhythm patterns and quick sputter-drums.

As we inch closer and closer to the space odyssey of 2010, DJ Copy provides a much more accurate future sex love song than anything in the Justin Timberlake catalogue. Libman is an exceptionally slick producer, as evidenced on his work with “Diva Mixtape Vol.1” and the upcoming V. 2 with his new band, Do N Dudes.

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