Remembering Patrick Cowley (October 19, 1950 - November 12, 1982) who passed away 43 years ago today. We continue to honor his legacy and preserve his contributions that forever changed the world of electronic dance music. Here’s a tribute from The Voice (San Francisco) published Nov 19, 1982.

🔥Patrick Cowley - Hard Ware🔥 2025 Vinyl 2LP Pressing Gatefold Sleeve Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social Funky HiNRG Disco Outtakes/Demo’s From the Patrick Cowley Vault #NowPlaying️ #PatrickCowley #DarkEntriesRecords #VinylAddict

A masterpiece collection of visionary synth-pop and one of the great holy grails of ’80s Japanese electronic music. Testpattern by Masao / Evelyne 🇯🇵 Monochromatic synth work and crisp drum programming on the latest musical technologies from Roland, Korg, Emu, and Linn evelynemasao.bandcamp.com

Today marks 9 years since trans icon Cristina “La Veneno”Ortiz passed away. She released a dance record in 1996 that we proudly reissued in 2023. 🏳️‍⚧️

Patrick Cowley ‘Hard Ware’ consists of ten tracks recorded between 1980-82, all previously unreleased, it’s funky & sleazy, but closes with a warning. ‘Ice Age’ on the surface tells of an incoming cold winter but this “synth-hymn” is a thinly veiled message about the AIDS crisis. Literally chilling💙

Wow. I never knew it was a cover!

Decompose is the title track from the sophomore Bézier album out Nov 14. The song takes the form of a Buddhist chant, a brooding synth-driven meditation that scales steadily until breaking into John Carpenter-esque arpeggios halfway through. 🎥 The Hunger (1983) bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose

The Pool “Dance It Down” (1983) The Pool was composer and producer Patrick Keel. Our reissue of his spartan song of empowerment that you can dance to is out now www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/...

A lovely Sunday, everyone! Just steered into this Misty Lane on old @darkentries.bsky.social road and can't believe how good it really is ❤️ #vinylsky #Energy

🔥Patrick Cowley • From Behind🔥 2024 Vinyl Release Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social #NowPlaying #VinylAddict #PatrickCowley #DarkEntriesRecords

🔥Patrick Cowley - Malebox🔥 2022 Vinyl Pressing Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social Funky HiNRG Disco Outtakes/Demo’s From the Patrick Cowley Vault #NowPlaying️ #PatrickCowley #VinylAddict

Pajama Party Massacre” is a New Wave song with a hilarious vocal performance from Cowley that tells a camp slasher story worthy of John Carpenter. It’s naive, punky, and maybe a little goth, predating the legions of weirdo gays who would find solace in gory horror movies. - Andrew Ryce

Vinyl 169: From Behind by Patrick Cowley on black vinyl Side note: Bless @darkentries.bsky.social and all the work they do on releasing Patrick’s work

Been around the world and I-I-I I can find my Wadey. Next to @darkentries.bsky.social Patrick Cowley no less. Honoured

C.L.A.W.S. Splat City II - picking up cues from the Hague’s Giallo-dipped electro, the skewed minimalism of Chicago acid, and the mind-rending forays of San Francisco post-punk icons like Chrome and Tuxedomoon. Out Nov 21st 🐈‍⬛ clawsisthebastard.bandcamp.com/album/splat-city-ii

positively skewed cover of “Singin’ in the Rain” by Evelyne/Masao (TESTPATTERN) shows affinity for continental French and Japanese electronics. Evelyne’s vocals alternate deftly between New Wave deadpan and unhinged chanson singer. 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 evelynemasao.bandcamp.com

Played Labyrinth Coatshek's Sound Bath during my downtempo set earlier this year. Whole album is sublime coatshek.bandcamp.com/album/sound-...

“A hypnotic flow of ambient techno, slow-step, and dub textures” 🧖🏼‍♀️ Coatshek ‘Sound Bath’ album release party Saturday November 1st at Pallas Gallery 6pm FREE live performance 🎸 🎹

Coming soon on @darkentries.bsky.social my new album 'Decompose'. Out November 14th on Vinyl and Digital. Preorders here: bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decomp...

A box of old CDs, wormhole psy-adjacent techno, looking back twice with JD Twitch—October is full of goodies. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc143-five...

Josh Cheon's JD Twitch hat-tip is scrupulous about its sourcing-his back-announcements delineate the exact relation of each track to the man of the hour. They lean on the more astringent side of post-punk & industrial, working partners, & selections from mixes on.soundcloud.com/1mFR9Sw8RRyw...

come find us in the garden at Acid Free Los Angeles all weekend 11am-7pm 🌳 books by Patrick Cowley, Lena Platonos, Jorge Socarras & Mel Odom, Daniel Case plus prints, shirts, and totes! acid-free.eventbrite.com

Feels like heaven.

Bézier returns to Dark Entries with a 2nd album after 7 years of meditation, Decompose is his most introspective work yet. The album begins with “Egg” full of intricate melodies & cavernous reverb induce in the listener feelings of both claustrophobia & free-fall bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose

R.I.P. Dave Ball 💔 Soft Cell was a major influence on my identity and musical taste as a teenager. I remember dubbing my Non Stop Erotic Cabaret LP to cassette so I could play it in my car and it became the soundtrack for going out dancing every weekend in New York City.

holy shit MORE unreleased Patrick Cowley bangers????

Wild that I recognized it so fast, I don't even have that much of their catalog yet! I've only browsed it a couple of times to queue up stuff on my BC wishlist to sample later (and probably buy) after grabbing this phenomenal Gina X Performance comp on vinyl ginax.bandcamp.com/album/greate...

Opened Bandcamp yesterday to poke through the Bandcamp Daily featured albums and New & Notable (their curation is really good, I've found tons of great stuff this way) and before reading a single word I somehow recognized this as a @darkentries.bsky.social just from the cover art?? Album's great btw

Patrick Cowley 75th birthday celebration week continues 🎉 Martin (마틴) from K-Pop group CORTIS spotted at JFK Airport in our Patrick Cowley shirt 😱 www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/mercha...

The Pool was a project of Patrick Keel, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and performer from Dallas, then Austin, Texas created in 1980 as an outlet for tight, skeletal, synthetic dance music. The Pool reissue is back in print, with a 12-page booklet. thepool.bandcamp.com/album/dance-it-down

My St. Patrick's Day

huge inspiration to me. discovering patrick’s story and music was monumental in wanting to pursue overtly queer art/music happy birthday patrick!

hell yeah

Attended the listening party for this the other night. Everything from track 3 onwards is amazing. The most essential of the archive collections so far.

Listening to.

THIS RULES #official

Happy heavenly birthday to Patrick Cowley who should be 75 years old today. To celebrate we’ve collected 10 tracks of pure, uncut Cowley: sultry, psychedelic, sarcastic, and just a bit sleazy. Hard Ware is another crucial document of a tremendous talent taken too soon. patrickcowley.bandcamp.com

our retail store in San Francisco is open all weekend 1-5pm 😉 Dark Entries Records bags included with every purchase 🛍️

Join us today at 11am PST for a free Patrick Cowley listening party to celebrate Hard Ware @bandcamp.com Listen to the music with us and chat about the making of the album. 💿 patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/merch/hard-ware-listening-party

paying tribute to the legend Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch on my NTS show today 12pm PST Keith changed the way I listened to music & introduced me to many bands I would never have heard of. I was fortunate to work with him on a Robert Rental reissue & will never forget all his encouragement nts.live

New album coming soon on Dark Entries. This will be my second LP after seven years I released Parler Musique in 2018.

On November 14th, Bézier ripples their way back to Dark Entries with Decompose, an LP of doomed spa music. It is an album almost ten years in the making, a deep investigation of life, loss, and the struggle of knowing oneself. bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose

Tomorrow!

Patirck Cowley’s chilling synth-hymn ”Ice Age,” in which Loverde vocalist Peggy Gibbons sings of a coming frosty apocalypse. The story told in “Ice Age” mirrors the coming AIDS crisis and feels like a haunting premonition from Cowley. patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/hard-w...

Experience the vibrant sounds of “Mexican Tecno Pop” with Dark Entries’ two collections. Featuring analog drum boxes and catchy synth melodies, these first ever Mexican new wave and post punk compilations to be released on vinyl showcases lesser-known DIY musicians and previously unreleased cuts 🇲🇽

TESTPATTERN is a highly fascinating album that bridges the gap, linguistic jet lag included, between Japan and France, between YMO's pre-electro derivations, which influenced both hip-hop and US synth-funk, and the ironic and alternative French new wave of the 1980s 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 evelynemasao.bandcamp.com

“Spellbinding Lover,” a Donna Summer-indebted melancholic boogie masterpiece that features Sylvester backup singer Jeanie Tracy. Written and recorded in 1979 by Patrick Cowley and unreleased until now! Hard Ware is out Oct 19th celebrating his 75th birthday patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/hard-w...

🎹 🇯🇵 evelynemasao.bandcamp.com/album/testpa...

📕 www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/mercha...

Join us October 15th for a screening of THE CURE IN ORANGE at 4StarTheater at 7pm 🍊 🎞️ The Cure co-founder @loltolhurst.bsky.social will be there for a Q&A and Book Signing 📖 Plus live performance by r.image 🎹 www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-...