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Experimental metal band
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Cojum Dip is an American avant-garde music project founded in 2000 by its sole permanent member, Bora Karaca, and active since 2004. The band is known for their on-stage personas and electic style, including metal, jazz, and math rock. Members make use of luchador masks during their live perfomances, each associated with a certain character. The band's music utilizes an array of uncommon instruments such as the keg, the bağlama, or the musical saw.
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Comment: The Sources I'm seeing are Primary, self published and user gen. Please see WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 11:34, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
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| Origin | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2004-current |
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History
Formation (2000–2005)
Cojum Dip was first founded by multi-instrumentalist Bora Karaca and guitarist Jacob Hurley around the year 2000, while the members were in high school. The band would play rehearsals throughout the early 2000s, with costumes inspired by Corey Taylor of the band Slipknot and Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, the band citing the latter as one of their musical inspirations.[1][2] They would, however, not perform live during that time, due to the inability to find band members. It is not until 2004 that the band would recruit members, with Brian McCorkle on guitar, Blake Gower on drums, and Trafael Lewis on bass, each member of the band portraying their own original character. Karaca would also record solo demos around that time, these later being compiled in 2005's The Greatest Demo CD in the Universe.[3]
Live performances (2005–2008)
The band released their first demo album, The Greatest Demo CD in the Universe, on February 16th, 2005.[4] Two days later, on February 18th, they would perform their first show at University of Michigan's James and Anne Duderstadt Center, and would continue playing shows in the Ann Arbor and Detroit area.[5][6] The Anthropomorphic Bible Assault EP was recorded in 2005 by Karaca and Gower at the University of Michigan's Audio Studio A, featuring for the most part re-recorded versions of tracks from their previous album, and was released in 2006.[3] The band would participate in the 2006 edition of the Emergenza music festival, but live perfomances were put on hold as a result of band founder Bora Karaca moving to Los Angeles, California, where he founded a recording studio.[7][8][9][10] During that time, Karaca would remaster existing recordings and release them as the digital-only Turk Off EP, and a reunion show was played on March 28th, 2008 in Ann Arbor.[11]
Solo endeavours, Videojuegos and Cojum Dip (2008–2016)
From 2008 to 2011, Karaca would attempt to find new bandmates in the Los Angeles area, but was unable to form a full band.[12][13] On November 9th, 2010, the digital-only Turk Off EP would be reissued,[14] and from 2011 to 2012, Karaca would record and release faithful solo covers of video game songs from Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Final Fantasy VII, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow.[15][16] About one year later, on October 3rd, 2012, these covers would be split into two compilation albums, with Videojuegos: Volume 1 containing songs from Mega Man 2, and Videojuegos: Volume 2 containing songs from Mega Man 3.[17][18] The band's first studio album, Cojum Dip, would be released on January 12th, 2014, recorded by Karaca, and contained re-recordings of tracks featured on previous releases by the band along with two new songs, Waltz in E-major, Op. 15 - "Moon Waltz" and 134340 Pluto.[19] Karaca would also contribute, under the Cojum Dip name, to Joe Hawley's projects Hawaii Part II: Part ii and Joe Hawley Joe Hawley.[20][21][22]
Upcoming album (2018–present)
Plans for a second album date as far back as 2018, with Karaca claiming in a Reddit AMA that a second album is set to come out in summer of 2019.[23] However, this would not happen.
On May 15th, 2019, Karaca would release a piano version of the song Moon Waltz, as a part of the Music from the Moon songwriting contest,[24][25] and on November 27th, 2019, Cojum Dip would be released to streaming services.[26]
On August 7th, 2025, Cojum Dip would perform for the first time since 2008 at Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch music festival, opening for Andrew Horowitz.[27] This solo performance by Karaca would introduce new designs for the band's characters.
Band members
Current members
- Bora Karaca (Bodur the Clumsy) − lead vocals, guitar, saxophone, accordion, bagpipes (2000–current)
Past members
- Jacob Hurley ("Laurence" a.k.a. Oktabis the Keeper of the River of Lost Souls) − guitar, power drill (2005–2008)
- Brian McCorkle (Mumutits the Sour) − guitar, saw, keyboard (2005–2006)
- Blake Gower (Captain No the Love Machine) − drums (2005–2008)
- Trafael Lewis (Udabn the Feared) − bass (2005)
- Alex Saenz (Udabn the Feared) − bass (2005–2006)
- Matt Sever (Udabn the Feared) − bass (2006–2008)
Discography
Studio albums
- Cojum Dip (2014)
Cover albums
- Videojuegos (2011)
- Videojuegos: Volume 1 (2012)
- Videojuegos: Volume 2 (2012)
Demo albums
- The Greatest Demo CD in the Universe (2005)
EPs
- Anthropomorphic Bible Assault EP (2006)
- Turk Off EP (2007, reissued 2010)
Singles
- 5/4 (2005)
- Moon Waltz (Piano Version) (2019)
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