Alexander Perls is a musician and record producer. His notable projects include 009 Sound System and Aalborg Soundtracks, which songs are entirely written, performed, and produced by Perls.

Perls' songs are known for their mix of electronic

Electronic dance music

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, trance

Trance music

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 and controversial religious

Religious music

Religious music is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.A lot of music has been composed to complement religion, and many composers have derived inspiration from their own religion. Many forms of traditional music have been adapted to fit religions'...

 related lyrics, which listeners have alternately interpreted as the work of a Christian, or a work of an atheist.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Perls is the grandson of Klaus Perls

Klaus Perls

Klaus Gunther Perls was born in Berlin, Germany, where his parents were art dealers. He studied art history in Munich, but after the Nazis stopped granting degrees to Jews he moved to Basel, Switzerland and completed his studies...

, the German art dealer, nephew of Nick Perls

Nick Perls

J. Nicholas Perls was the founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records."Nick" Perls was one of a handful of serious east coast collectors of 78-rpm country blues recordings during the 1960s. As a young man, he made two trips through the deep south, knocking on doors and acquiring old...

, the founder of Yazoo Recordings, and nephew of John Rousmaniere

John Rousmaniere

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, the author, and great-grand-nephew of Albert Hamilton Gordon

Albert Hamilton Gordon

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While studying as an exchange student at University College London

University College London

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 in 1997, Perls worked with the post-rock collective Piano Magic

Piano Magic

Piano Magic is a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Their sound has been described as ambient pop, post-rock, indietronica, coldwave, dark wave and ghostrock...

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Following Perls' graduation from Oberlin College

Oberlin College

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 in 1998, he worked briefly for the Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone is an American gallery owner and art dealer. She owns the Gladstone Gallery on W. 24th St in New York City which was designed by Selldorf Architects, and she represents many popular contemporary artists, including Shirin Neshat, Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, and Matthew Barney...

 Gallery, a leading contemporary art dealership in New York, and then settled into a career as songwriter and music producer.

Between 2000 and 2008, Perls primarily wrote and recorded songs for other dance music producers, including well-known artists such as David Guetta

David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

, Paul van Dyk

Paul van Dyk

Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...

, Ian Carey, ATB

ATB

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, and Robert M. first in New York City, and after 2006, in Los Angeles. From 2000 to 2003 he was one of the members of the electronic music duo CIRC, which released one album and several singles and remixes.

In 2011, Track One Recordings opened a remix competition for Perls' well known productions Dreamscape and Born To Be Wasted.

Annex Trax, Vol. 1

3. Maximalist (Short Edit)

4. Storm (Short Edit)

11. The Drive (Short Edit)

12. Storm (Short Edit)

14. Storm (Long Edit)

15. Maximalist (Long Edit)

16. Recombination

17. Can't Be Sure

18. Heaven's Never Gonna Be Like This (Short Edit)

009 Sound System (2008)

1. Beat of the Moment
2. Dreamscape
3. The Dark Empire
4. The Hero Waits
5. Database
6. Holiday (So High)
7. Sonia
8. Sweet Mary (Talks to You)
9. The Pull
10. Transfiguration
11. Radio Station
12. Of Latter Days (Circ
    Circ
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    )
13. Maximalist
14. Storm
15. The Drive
16. Solo
17. Killer with a Thousand Faces
18. Space and Time
19. With a Spirit
20. Speak to Angels
21. Born to be wasted

Singles

• Wings and Time (2009)
• Trinity (2009)
• Within a Single (2009)
• When You're Young (2011)
• Dream We Knew (2011)
• Powerstation (2011)
• Wings (extended edit) (2011)

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