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Cojum Dip
OriginAnn Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Genres
Years active2004-current
Members
  • Bora Karaca
Past members
  • Jacob Hurley
  • Brian McCorkle
  • Blake Gower
  • Trafael Lewis
  • Alex Saenz
  • Matt Sever

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.

History

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Formation (2000–2005)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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Current members

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  • Bora Karaca (Bodur the Clumsy) − lead vocals, guitar, saxophone, accordion, bagpipes (2000–current)

Past members

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  • 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

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Studio albums

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  • Cojum Dip (2014)

Cover albums

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  • Videojuegos (2011)
  • Videojuegos: Volume 1 (2012)
  • Videojuegos: Volume 2 (2012)

Demo albums

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  • The Greatest Demo CD in the Universe (2005)

EPs

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  • Anthropomorphic Bible Assault EP (2006)
  • Turk Off EP (2007, reissued 2010)

Singles

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  • 5/4 (2005)
  • Moon Waltz (Piano Version) (2019)

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "proto dip" Facebook. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Cojum Dip" Myspace. Archived from the original on April 4th, 2011. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  3. 1 2 What is Cojum Dip?, 2006. Interviews by Devan Gandhi. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  4. ↑ Official website, Archived from the original on April 15th, 2005. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  5. ↑ "COJUM DIP'S 1st ANNUAL ASTEROID CHAINSAW CLASSIC, featuring The Ninjas!" www.lib.umich.edu, Archived from the original on March 17th, 2005. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  6. ↑ March 10th 2005, Jackson Citizen Patriot.
  7. ↑ "Michigan bands aiming for the top", June 30th, 2006, Oakland Press.
  8. ↑ "Official page of Cojum Dip genre: Metal cross over" www.emergenza.net, Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  9. ↑ September 14th, 2006, Ann Arbor News.
  10. ↑ "the LABORATORY - Recording Studio in Beverly Hills" Archived from the original on May 10th, 2010. Retrieved October 16th, 2025
  11. ↑ "ALIBI SHOWS | MODATI" Archived from the original on September 20th, 2008. Retrieved October 16th, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Join this band", Archived from the original on January 6th, 2009. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Cojum Dip has a drummer. BASSISTS! Join US.", Cojum Dip, Facebook. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Turk Off EP by Cojum Dip", Myspace. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Videojuegos", Soundcloud. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Videojuegos", Youtube. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Videojuegos: Volume 1 | Cojum Dip", Bandcamp. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Videojuegos: Volume 2 | Cojum Dip", Bandcamp. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Cojum Dip | Cojum Dip", Bandcamp. Retrieved October 17th, 2025
  20. ↑ "Hawaii: Part II: Part ii | ミラクルミュージカル", Bandcamp. Retrieved October 17th, 2025
  21. ↑ "ΔΙAΨΕYΣH TOU APIΣTOTEΛH (feat. Cojum Dip)", Bandcamp. Retrieved October 17th, 2025.
  22. ↑ Kaliabakos, Anastasia (September 27th, 2023) "A Journey through Classical Reception in Modern Music", WestView News. Retrieved October 18th, 2025
  23. ↑ "Why thank you! A new album is coming out summer 2019", We are Joe Hawley, Ross Federman, and Bora Karaca of ミラクルミュージカル. Ask us anything., Reddit. Retrieved October 18th, 2025.
  24. ↑ "Music from the Moon - International Music Competition", Flourish Consulting Services. Retrieved October 18th, 2025.
  25. ↑ "Moon Waltz", Bora Karaca, YouTube. Retrieved October 18th, 2025.
  26. ↑ "Cojum Dip – Album by Cojum Dip", Spotify. Retrieved October 18th, 2025.
  27. ↑ Hamilton, Jacob (August 8th, 2025) "Tally Hall near-reunion draws packed crowd to Sonic Lunch". MLive Media Group. Retrieved October 18th, 2025

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