Codebase - The Trip Up

Codebase - What Do You Want

Codebase - Stepping Out

I recorded this track live to DAT in 1994 using only a TR-727, TR-808, and TR-909 as instruments.  I'm pretty sure I used a DOD Supra-distortion pedal and a Yamaha SPX-90 II for effects, and everything was sequenced from the drum machines.

I didn't have a studio of my own at the time, so I schlepped what I could fit in my hands and a backpack to the computer music lab at Carnegie-Mellon University.  What came out of one night of jamming is a group of three minimal techno tracks (minimal in the absolute sense, not the 2000s era clicks/cuts/etc).  I think this one is the strongest of them.  We released them all along with another one on Orbitrecords in 1996 in an obscure EP called .x09 :fzz:ep.  There aren't too many of those out there.

Codebase (as X09) - Flickerflash (1994)

We're getting the band back together!  I recorded Tickertape and Mayday after revamping my studio workflow, and I asked my friends Chaircrusher and Perkowitz to remix the title track.  Chaircrusher released this EP digitally on his Cornwarning label in 2009.  Enjoy!

Codebase - Tickertape

Codebase - Tickertape (Chaircrusher Remix)

Codebase - Tickertape (Perkowitz Remix)

Back to dance music with this one.  I always liked the way 90s rave tunes would sample a chord and then play a melody with them.  So I fired up the old 1990s sampler and found some of those chords to mix in with a rolling beat.  

This track actually began with an idea for hi-hats that is barely audible in the final mix.  There is a hat sound in the background run through a resonant filter with an envelope and LFO.  That plus the Juno bass line was where I started.

Now available for digital download and on vinyl alongside a remix from LTJ Xperience and two other previously unheard Codebase tracks - Roam Recordings 013, Codebase "Falling Bricks" EP.  You can find it at your favorite vinyl or digital music store!

Codebase - Falling Bricks

I recorded this track a few months ago after I visited Chicago for the first time.  It's on the slow tip and includes some of the rave-inspired chords I have been utilizing lately as well.  I had been looking for an excuse to use the Hot Pants/Fools Gold beat - so there it is!

Codebase - Chicago River

This track grew out of experiments trying to replicate a certain stuttery sound from popular music in the early 1980s.  I used gated chords from a Jupiter-6 along with a triggered portamento sound from a Moog Source for the main melodic sounds.  There's also some PPG and Juno-60 thrown in there.  The bass line is my favorite bass machine, the Oberheim SEM.

Codebase - Centrifuge

This is a mix I made a while back when I was DJing a bit more.

1.	Konrad Black	The Opticians Chair		(Swayzak Recordings)
2.	Aril Brikha 	Groove La Chord			(Transmat)
3.	Slam		        Virtuoso (Rolando Remix)	(Soma)
4.	Maurizio	        M5				(No Label/Basic Channel)
5.	Theorem		Clone				(Plus 8)
6.	Swayzak		Lokal				(The Medicine Label)
7.	Akufen		Architexture			(Groovetech)
8.	Maurizio	        M4				(No Label/Basic Channel)
9.	G-Man		El Jam (Gaetano Parisio Remix)	(i220)
10.	Steve O'Sullivan vs Exos	Checques Not Accepted	(Mosaic)
11.	Steve Bug	A Night Like This (Hawtin Remix)	(Poker Flat)
12.	Slam		        Visions				(Soma)


Various - Mixcode (2004)

I don't hide my love for Giorgio Moroder powered hits from the 1980s.  I took this Berlin song he produced and adapted it to something I incorporated into my live sets around 2004.  Here's the studio version.

Berlin - No More Words (Codebase Re-Edit)

Dragonette - Let it Go (Codebase Remix)

Some of you have been asking for a studio recording of this track, which I play in my live set.  Enjoy!

Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better (Codebase Remix)

A song I wrote for Nora Perkowitz, part of the project "Music for the Fourth Trimester" from Mike Perkowitz (Nora's dad!).  This also happened to be the first recording I made in my Taylor Avenue studio.

Codebase - Nora's Lullaby

Throwback to 1992 breaks & rave music.  Enjoy!

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