Perkowitz Music

Blue to Dream

Flunk – Blue Monday
New Order – Blue Monday (Perkowitz Mix)
Electroset – How does it Feel
New Order – Blue Monday 95 (Hardfloor Mix)
Perkowitz – So Cold
Rihanna – Shut Up and Drive
Hardfloor – Acperience 1
Hardfloor – Trancescript
Hardfloor – Melorec
Perkowitz – Mutiny
Perkowitz – Attack of the Tooth Fairies
Outlander – Vamp
Heatsync – Diatonic
Queen vs. Kraftwerk – It’s More Pressure to Compute
Union Jack – Red Herring (Perkowitz Minimal Mix)
Trancesetters – The Search
Dave Clarke – Thunder
Beltram – Energy Flash
Don Henley – Dirty Laundry (Perkowitz Mix)
Perkowitz – Unhinged
Perkowitz – Three Four Five
Hardfloor – Tilt
Aerosmith – Dream On (Perkowitz Mix)

Do It Again (Perkowitz Mix)

Do You Wanna Funk (Perkowitz Mix)

Patrick Cowley, who produced the original, was a dance music genius.

Dream On (Perkowitz Mix)

Garageland (Perkowitz Mix)

Another Section 25 remix, this one (mostly) removing vocals I didn’t like and focusing on a nice groove.

Hall of Mirrors

A cover of the Kraftwerk song, with John Felthous. Originally arranged for RUR.

I Can’t Go For That (Perkowitz Mix)

A remix of the Hall & Oates classic. I had forgotten what a great groove it had at the beginning until I heard it at a wedding recently. So I had to extend out that groove and then do some chopping and filtering on the rest.

I Know When I Look Good (Vocal)

I originally recorded this as an instrumental in 2001, but when I started working with John Felthous and RUR, I asked him to come up with vocals for it. I’m not sure what his lyrics are actually about, but they always get stuck in my head.

Into the Groove (Perkowitz Mix)

I had forgotten what good grooves this song had. Plus great use of the 707/727 combo.

Jump (for my Love)

The Pointer Sisters sure knew how to create a groove. I just took some of my favorite bits of this song and played around with them.

Jump Jump Around Jump

Kriss Kross and House of Pain play surprisingly well together, but getting Van Halen into the party was a little harder. It was worth the effort though.

Live @ Peloton Everything Electric 2013-02-28
00:00 Outside the Dome
05:27 Astray
08:10 Timelapse
13:28 Invaders
19:45 Walkin’ Out
26:07 Voodoo
30:14 Keep Driving
34:50 Night Fires
39:33 Mutiny
44:59 Energy
47:48 Without You Here
52:51 So Cold (Blue Monday)
59:33 It’s More Pressure to Compute
64:51 Psycho Killer Remix
69:59 Looking from a Hilltop Remix
75:07 Dream On Remix

Original versions: Outside the Dome, Astray, Timelapse, Invaders, Walkin’ Out, Voodoo, Keep Driving, Night Fires, Mutiny, Energy, Without You Here, So Cold (Blue Monday), It’s More Pressure to Compute, Psycho Killer, Looking from a Hilltop, Dream On.

Looking from a Hilltop (Perkowitz Dub)

Had to give this song another remix, featuring the killer 808 loop from Stephen Morris’s Retrofit remix front and center.

Looking from a Hilltop (Perkowitz Mix)

Remix of one of Section 25’s best-known (and most-sampled) tracks. I combined a couple of the original mixes with some great grooves from Stephen Morris’s recent remix.

Major Tom

Major Tom (Dub)

Major Tom (Remix)

Night Fires

The lyrics were inspired by an especially poetic spam email, and I’m not quite sure what it became.

Oh Sheila (Perkowitz Mix)

Ready for the World had some great drum programming, on this and other songs. Must have it.

Psycho Killer (Perkowitz Dub)

Psycho Killer (Perkowitz Mix)

Right On Target (Perkowitz Mix)

Robot in Love

Separate Ways (Perkowitz Mix)

The synth line on this song just demanded a remix. I had trouble making the rest of it work, but it’s worth it for the synth line.

So Cold

A cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday”.

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (Perkowitz Dub)

More beat-heavy remix of the Rachel Stevens song, highlighting the trademark distorted 808.

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (Perkowitz Mix)

Remix of the great Rachel Stevens song.

The Glamorous Life (Perkowitz Clean)

Basically the same as my first remix, but with the vocals left untreated, so people can sing along when you play it.

The Glamorous Life (Perkowitz Mix)

The drums on the original are irresistible, so I had to remix it.

The Him

A cover of the New Order track off of “Movement”.

Time

A vocal song with lyrics and arrangement inspired by early New Order (working off of one of my favorite Sumner lines ever, “here I am in a house full of doors and no exits”). One of few songs I’ve ever written original lyrics for. Also by far the shortest song I’ve ever recorded, at a radio-friendly 3:32.

Too Much Time On My Hands (Perkowitz Mix)

I heard this on the radio a couple weeks ago and the opening synth line is irresistible.

Walkin' Out

This song combines three rare things for me: vocals I sang, lyrics I wrote, and layered melodies with pop-song structure. The basic song came together fairly quickly, but it took a while to finish the writing and get all the vocals recorded.