091004. A minimal little exploration of the Juno-60 and TR-707.
(2009) LinkAll Songs by Title
Inspired by Kraftwerk’s use of short ringing delays on “Tour de France Soundtracks”, especially in “Vitamin”.
(2003) LinkA gentle remix of Blue Monday — extending out the intro and some other grooves for mixing, a little rearranging, a couple of transitions.
(2002) LinkFlunk – 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)
The first of my “songs for the fourth trimester”, intended to help soothe our infant daughter to sleep. This one is still my favorite, especially with the lurking sample from one of my favorite songs; maybe after falling asleep to it so often, she’ll grow up loving New Order as well.
(2008) LinkAnother one of those tracks where I did a long recording and figured I’d edit it later. I eventually did edit down from 16+ minutes to the 11:30 or so that appeared on my record on 1200 Music. Cluster is definitely the best example of a certain aspect of my drum machine style — long, slowly changing, and pure rhythm.
(1997) LinkJoy Division – Warsaw
Perkowitz – The Tuning
Perkowitz – Submerge
Perkowitz – Supreme Being
Photek – Glamourama
Perkowitz – I Know When I Look Good
Perkowitz vs. Corey Hart – Sunglasses
New Order – Blue Monday (Perkowitz Mix)
Kraftwerk – The Telephone Call (Perkowitz Mix)
Perkowitz – Robot in Love
Kris Moon – Robo.trash
Phenix vs. Perkowitz – Don’t You (Remix)
Little Computer People – I Am
LFO – We Are Back
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (Perkowitz Mix)
Little Computer People – Little Computer People (1979)
Perkowitz – Space Invaders
2up Technologies – Roboshadowmandog (Perkowitz Mix)
Perkowitz – Defender
Dopplereffekt – Technic 1200
Alexander Robotnick – Problemes d’amour (Perkowitz Mix)
Adonis – No Way Back
Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (LFO Mix)
Takkyu Ishino – Anna Letmein Letmeout
Codebase vs. Perkowitz – Wiped
Kraftwerk – The Robots (Betamax Mix)
Perkowitz – Nothing
Dylan – Behind the Wheel
Perkowitz – Seventies
Perkowitz – Invaders
Perkowitz vs. Schenk – Technology
Prototype 909 – Devil Dog
Hardfloor – Acperience
Phuture – Acid Tracks
Perkowitz – Major Tom
Senor Coconut – Showroom Dummies
Do You Wanna Funk (Perkowitz Mix)
Patrick Cowley, who produced the original, was a dance music genius.
(2012) LinkAnother Section 25 remix, this one (mostly) removing vocals I didn’t like and focusing on a nice groove.
(2011) LinkI 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.
(2010) LinkI 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.
(2004) LinkNot much to this track but some squirrelly drum loops, a sine-ish bassline, and a high-pass-filter hook. Also, the irony is that I hate Pynchon.
(1999) LinkInto the Groove (Perkowitz Mix)
I had forgotten what good grooves this song had. Plus great use of the 707/727 combo.
(2012) LinkThe 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.
(2012) LinkKriss 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.
(2012) LinkLive @ 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.
(2013) LinkLooking 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.
(2011) LinkLooking 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.
(2011) LinkInspired by Patrick Cowley’s “Right on Target” and its use of the cowbell. Should have a vocal part other than the robotish vocal sound, but I never wrote or recorded one.
(2004) LinkMiss Otis Regrets (Perkowitz Mix)
A slow, creepy remix of the Ella Fitzgerald original. I intended it to go with the “Fourth Trimester” music, but we decided it’s too creepy to soothe infants.
(2009) LinkThe lyrics were inspired by an especially poetic spam email, and I’m not quite sure what it became.
(2011) LinkA mix of somewhat soothing sounds for baby Nora, using some of the songs sampled in her Fourth Trimester collection.
(2008) LinkReady for the World had some great drum programming, on this and other songs. Must have it.
(2012) LinkThis is one of a series of tracks I did in 1997 where I just recorded a minimal techno thing for a very long time and figured I’d edit it later. Without the pressure to get the song structure right on the first pass, I was more relaxed and did some decent evolving minimal techno tracks.
(1997) LinkI took two minute-long tracks from Section 25’s album “Nature + Degree” and spun them out into this.
(2011) LinkSargeant Ridiculous (Perkowitz Truncates)
A remix of the Chaircrusher song. I basically took his complex, evolving sounds and cut them down to simple tech-house loops (hence “truncates”) and then grooved it out for eight minutes. That’s the Perkowitz way.
(2009) LinkThe 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.
(2012) LinkSped up and edited down a bit, this version becomes a little more techno than the original.
(1998) LinkNot really a remix of “Sunglasses at Night”, but a heavy borrowing. My goal was a to create a track with a nice groove that would seem vaguely familiar when played out but then become really familiar as the track went on.
(2002) LinkSweet Dreams My LA Ex (Perkowitz Dub)
More beat-heavy remix of the Rachel Stevens song, highlighting the trademark distorted 808.
(2011) LinkA long jam on 909, 808, 727, rx5, 303, x0xb0x, ea1, and some fx. It’s nice to completely cut loose from the computer sometimes. This could probably use an edit down to 6-8 minutes but here it is in raw epic form.
(2009) LinkRecorded with Peter Schenk. One of the few recordings I ever got to do with Peter’s Xpander. Though I spent most of the time tweaking the filtery feedback delay patch on the Q2.
(1997) LinkThe 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.
(2012) LinkThe Glamorous Life (Perkowitz Mix)
The drums on the original are irresistible, so I had to remix it.
(2012) LinkTickertape (Perkowitz Mix). My remix of the Codebase track, appearing on the Tickertape EP.
(2009) LinkA 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.
(2010) LinkToo Much Time On My Hands (Perkowitz Mix)
I heard this on the radio a couple weeks ago and the opening synth line is irresistible.
(2012) LinkThe thing I like best about this song is that twice (at 1:35 and 4:28), the song glitches as though the computer running it was about to crash. This was inspired by the fact that my computer would, in fact, crash while I was working on music. I had a good time reproducing the way it seemed to hang and stutter as a part of this song.
(2001) LinkSupposed to be a song about a intelligent machine and its angst about its existence, but I never wrote or recorded vocals.
(2004) LinkThis 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.
(2010) Link
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