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Copperpot
Biography
Taking his name from a character in movie The Goonies, Chicago-based DJ/producer Copperpot, aka Chester Copperpot, came to underground rap's fore strongly affiliating with the growing U.K. hip-hop scene, where his initial success began. Citing a long list of disparate influences that includes Duran Duran and DJ Premier, the producer pieces together beats in a fairly standard fashion, but it's where he draws his samples from -- atypical sources like East Asian folk, choral music, video game scores, and Eastern European jazz-funk -- that gives his productions interesting textures.

Born in Chicago, IL, on February 15, 1979, Daniel Kuypers took a serious interest in hip-hop around the mid-'90s when he switched gears from skateboarding to experimenting with turntablism. After his high-school graduation in 1997 in Evanston, IL, he attended four different colleges, studying poetry, English, and music theory with plans to become a teacher. His drive to start making beats was fostered by his discontent with how hip-hop was evolving at the end of the millennium, and so he bought his first MPC in 2000. When he went to live in the Czech Republic for a writing program, he instead chose to develop his beat-making skills and travel all around Europe, eventually bumping into Low Life Records CEO/rapper Braintax in the U.
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