Patrick Joseph Cowley came to San Francisco shortly after the 1967 Summer of Love to study music at City College of San Francisco, focusing primarily on the synthesizer. Within several years, he ...

Hear an unreleased EP from the late producer and originator of “The San Francisco sound”. Patrick Cowley was only 32 when he died of AIDS in 1982, but his influence on electronic music cannot be ...

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to picture sweaty, half-naked men exploring the bounds of their bodies while Patrick Cowley’s 1981 track “Menergy” blasts from the speakers. Mostly because ...

The San Francisco disco producer Patrick Cowley was one of the chief architects of the style known as hi-NRG, a bouncy, keyboard-heavy extrapolation of Giorgio Moroder’s robo-disco chug. His ...

US label Dark Entries is lining up another release of archival material by the late producer Patrick Cowley. From Behind, which spans seven tracks, explores covers that Cowley recorded of a number of ...

For years it seemed as if Patrick Cowley appeared out of nowhere to establish an impressive musical career in a brief period of time. He vanished just as quickly in 1982, when his life was cut ...

The demo version of Sylvester's "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight" you are about to hit "play" on is an instrumental. The lack of lyrics may not seem much of a loss since the song, released on the Bay ...

Patrick Cowley is far from a household name, but his impact on pop and electronic music is one of subtlety and understatement. You see, while his contemporary Giorgio Moroder made a name for himself ...

Dark Entries is releasing another collection of archival Patrick Cowley music. Some Funkettes, the latest addition to a series of Cowley releases on Dark Entries over the last seven years, is a ...