MECHANICAL FANTASY BOX 2XLP

NEWLY UNCOVERED PATRICK COWLEY MATERIAL + JOURNAL TO BE RELEASED AS 2xLP + BOOK ENTITLED MECHANICAL FANTASY BOX ON PATRICK'S 69TH BIRTHDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 2019 Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music at the City College of San Francisco. By the late ˜70s, Patrick™s synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including #1 hit šYou Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)›. Cowley created his own brand of peak-time party music known as Hi-NRG, also dubbed šThe San Francisco Sound.› By 1981 Patrick had released a string of his own dance 12? singles, such as šMenergy› and šMegatron Man›. That year, he co-founded Megatone Records to release his debut album Megatron Man. Meanwhile, Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with an unknown illness, which would later be named AIDS. Recovering for a spell, in 1982 he composed two more #1 hits, šDo You Wanna Funk› for Sylvester, and šRight On Target› for Paul Parker, as well as a second solo album Mind Warp. His life was cut short on November 12, 1982, when he passed away two weeks after his 32nd birthday from AIDS-related illness. Mechanical Fantasy Box is a new collection of 13 unreleased songs recorded between 1973-80 released in tandem with Cowley™s homoerotic journal of the same title. What you hold in your hand is a collection of Cowley's work from the years preceding his meteoric rise as a pioneer of Hi-NRG dance music. This was before drum machines. Before programmable, polyphonic digital synthesis, this is experimental music in every sense. Sounds flows from funk to kraut to psychedelic ambient electronics inspired by Tomita and Kraftwerk. As David Diebold stated in Tribal Rites, šPatrick Cowley parted the veil and entered a dark world of forbidden forces, wondrous musical panoramas and bold, strident, hopeful possibilities. Patrick brought the future to us and laid it at our feet.› Some songs were mixed from 4-track stems by Joe Tarantino and all songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl comes housed in a black and white gatefold jacket designed by Gwenaël Rattke featuring a photograph by Susan Middleton, liner notes by bandmate Maurice Tani and an 8.5x11 insert with notes. Proceeds from Mechanical Fantasy Box will be donated to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, who have been committed to ending the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV since 1982. Format: 2xLP UPC: 794811515159 1. Out of Body (Intro) 2. Right Here, Right Now 3. Broken Dishes 4. Breakdown 5. Moving Bodies I 6. Grisha's Tune 7. Sensitivity 8. Shrouds 9. Lumberjacks in Heat 10. Mechanical Fantasy Box 11. Thrill of the Hunt 12. Before Original Sin 13. Sea of China