Perkowitz Music

091004. A minimal little exploration of the Juno-60 and TR-707.

091006. Another Juno-60/TR-707 workout.

A Squared Plus B Squared

Activate It

Additive Identity

Anhedonia

Anhedonia (Edit)

Apple Pi

Attar

The third “drum circle” track. There wasn’t room for this one on the 1200 Music release, but it definitely goes with the others.

Cluster

Another 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.

Dragon

A slowly-changing old-school jam: 303, 808, 909, 727, and a key loop from a Hammond Auto-Vari 64.

Dysthemia

Elusive

An old-timey number, featuring several layers of 303 with some 808 and 909.

Flex

Fluoxetine

Ghost

Green Light

Imipolex G

Not 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.

Inhibitor (Edit)

Invaders

Straight-up techno with some video-game-ish sounds.

It’s Time for the Perkulator

A remix of the classic Cajmere track from 1992. This should be my theme song.

Karthak

The second “drum circle” track, with more of an electro influence and a bit more stripped down.

Killer Whale

Machine 1

Machine 2

Machine 3

Machine 4

Machine 5

Machine 6

Micro8

An 808 and a nord micromodular.

Mosquito

Mutiny

Another minimal old-fashioned track: 909 and 303s and not much else.

Parataxis (Edit)

This 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.

Pinpoint

Pragma

Reuptake

Root Five Plus One Over Two

RSRCH01

Runoff

Submerge

Submerge (Edit)

Sped up and edited down a bit, this version becomes a little more techno than the original.

Tailsmoke (Edit)

Technology

Recorded 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.

The Twelfth Bit

Three Four Five

Thump

Tricyclic (Edit)

Undecidable

Vithwan

The first of three recordings influenced by the mechanics of drum circles — dense with rhythms built from simple loops. This is the most driving of the three, and one of my favorite recordings.

Walkabout

Heavily compressed 909 and a walking bassline.