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Contents:
- PATRICK COWLEY, THE GAY GENI OF HI-NRG
- DARK ENTRI CELEBRATE GAY PRI WH FOUR VYL RELEAS
- PATRICK COWLEY’S GAY PORNO MUZAK WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME
PATRICK COWLEY, THE GAY GENI OF HI-NRG
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Before his ath 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the Amerin gay unrground's most thrillg dance mic, om chart-toppg dis to radil club tracks.
Consirg the close ti wh gay San Francis DJ llective Honey Soundsystem, was only natural that the label took this approach, pavg the way for the ‘Gay Pri Bundle’ that’s set for release later this month. Consistg of four releas, span both genr and s, celebratg the lible mark gay muni have ma on unrground electronic mic te Dark Entri fashn. Unsurprisgly, the first Gay Pri rerd happens to be yet another obscure exvatn, this time featurg the playful electro dis productns of former Lizzy Mercier Dcloux llaborator, Philippe Krootchey.
Many know Dark Entri through the label’s Patrick Cowley pilatns, wh ‘School Daze’, ‘Mcle Up’ and last year’s ‘Afternooners’ featurg revered material om the electronic mic pneers’ long-lost vtage gay porn soundtracks. Next year marks Dark Entri’ 10th anniversary, and Cheon says the label has a pilatn of unreleased Victrola mos planned, as well as the but album om Wt Coast producer V Sol and “more ‘80s gay porn soundtracks om a livg legend”.
DARK ENTRI CELEBRATE GAY PRI WH FOUR VYL RELEAS
2019 also marks the year Patrick Cowley would have turned 69, which Dark Entri will celebrate by puttg out a llectn of unreleased mic om his llege years – om the same reels the Dark Entri released gay porn soundtracks me om – as well as a book. The new anthology is the third and fal a seri of rerds pilg Cowley's gay porn soundtrack work, followg School Daze and Mcle Up. Supplementg the prr anthologi School Daze and Mcle Up, the mic llected on Afternooners ptur Patrick Cowley’s valy and momentum mid-air, as he built upon the succs of his productn work wh Sylvter, and stggled wh his own ambns to bee a star his own right, while remag nnected to the gay unrground om which he first emerged.
” If Cowley’s shamels ployment of wbell risks llapsg “Leather Bound” to a kd of parody of what people expect om gay porno muzak, the unexpectedly tangy ss of synthized Choiserie that follow pass through ksch and to some lir hall of mirrors that li beyond. The public health disaster of AIDS would vastate a generatn of gay men, takg Patrick Cowley’s life, along wh untls others. His meticulo black and whe homoerotic drawgs, renred a potillist pen and k technique, first appeared at a semal moment the ‘60s, when photographic pornography was still illegal but drawgs and stori were protected by Supreme Court “ee speech” lgs the Uned Stat.
His art was showsed a number of pneerg gay Amerin publitns such as THE ADVOCATE and DRUMMER MAGAZINE.