Perkowitz Music

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Blue Loops

A heavily processed remix of Blue Monday.

Blue Monday (Remix)

A gentle remix of Blue Monday — extending out the intro and some other grooves for mixing, a little rearranging, a couple of transitions.

Blue Monday 2002

A cover of Blue Monday.

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)

Dirty Laundry (Perkowitz Mix)

A remix of the Don Henley song, just spooling out the opening groove that’s so good.

DJ Set 6/4/2002 – Part 1

Joy 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

DJ Set 6/4/2002 – Part 2

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.

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 (Instrumental)

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.

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)

Megatron Wants To Funk

Inspired 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.

Night Fires

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

Nothing

A techno-ized cover of the Depeche Mode song.

Pop Idol (Perkowitz Mix)

I took two minute-long tracks from Section 25’s album “Nature + Degree” and spun them out into this.

Right On Target (Perkowitz Mix)

Robot in Love

Seventies

A technoed-up version of Yaz’s “Goodbye Seventies”.

So Cold

A cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday”.

Sunglasses

Not 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.

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 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.

Untitled Machine

Supposed to be a song about a intelligent machine and its angst about its existence, but I never wrote or recorded vocals.

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.