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Patrick Cowley
School Daze
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2xLP / Dark Entries Records / 2013


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Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem have teamed up to release the gay
porn soundtrack work of San Francisco-based musician and producer,
Patrick Cowley. Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential
people in the cannon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of
Hi-NRG dance music coined “The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY
on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21.
He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the
Electronic Music Lab. During this time Patrick would create radio
jingles and electronic pieces using the school’s equipment, first a
Putney, then an E-MU System and finally a Serge synthesizer. He would
make experimental instrumental songs by blending various types of music
and adapting them to the synthesizer.


By the mid-70′s, Patrick’s synthesizer skills landed him a job
composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester such as “You
Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and “Stars.” This
helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Of particular
note was his 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and
production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life. By 1981 Patrick
released a string of dance 12″ singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron
Man”, creating the soundtrack for a generation. Also that year, he
founded Megatone Records and released his debut album. Around this time
Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with a then-unknown illness: that
would later be called AIDS. Prior to his passing on November 12, 1982,
he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester and
“Right On Target” for Paul Parker.


In 1981 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay
porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. John had heard about Patrick’s
music from the legendary Sylvester and proposed he write music for his
films. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college
compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable
speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick’s songs
in-sync with the film scene. “School Daze” is a collection of Cowley’s
instrumental songs recorded between 1973 and 1981 found in the Fox
Studio vaults. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder,
Patrick forged an electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers,
modified guitars and self-constructed equipment. The listener enters a
world of dark forbidden vices, introspective and reflective of Patrick’s
time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “School
Daze” range from sparse proto-techno to high octane funk to somber
post-punk to musique concrete, revealing the depth of Cowley’s unique
talent.


Featuring over 80 minutes of music, this compilation contains
soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, “Muscle Up” and “School
Daze”, never before released on vinyl. The tapes were restored and
transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for
vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl
comes housed in a glossy dual pocket gatefold featuring classic gay porn
imagery from the Fox Studio vaults plus an essay from Indoor Life
vocalist, Jorge Soccarras. For Patrick’s 63rd birthday, Dark Entries and
Honey Soundsystem present a glimpse into the instrumental world of a
young genius. These recordings shine a new light on the experimental
side of a disco legend who was taken too soon. All proceeds from “School
Daze” will be donated to Project Open Hand and the AIDS Housing Alliance.