Patrick Cowley

Patrick Joseph Cowley (October 19th, 1950 - November 12th, 1982), type-setter, producer, interprets music Disco and precursor of the Hi-NRG.

Biography

Born in Buffalo, it grew in the north of New York, Horseheads and Corning, with his/her brother and sisters, James, Mariellen and Madonna, and with her grandfather who bernard Cowley named. His/her father, Kenneth Cowley, are deceased in January 2005 with 85 years while his/her mother, Ellen, disappeared 13 month after death from her son in December 1983.

He studied with the college of Buffalo where he played of the battery, the keyboard and the guitar in local small groups. He played primarily of ear of the simple songs. His/her parents supported it in its dreams of musqiue, the battery was installed in the garage, with the basement.

21 years old, it leaves Rochester in 1971 for Bay of San Francisco and begins studies of electronic music (Synthétiseur) at the University of San Francisco (City College off San Francisco).

In 1972, Jerry Mueller created the " Electronic Music Lab " in its basement with 3 students: Arthur Adcock, Jerry Judnick and Patrick Cowley. Six months later they will be joined by Maurice Tani.

At that time there were only 3 marks of Synthétiseur S available: Moog which was most popular but very expensive, Buchla so expensive and Putney manufactured in the United Kingdom which was cheap. Jerry Mueller bought a Putney with a matrix with " pin" instead of connections with cables. It passed then to a system E-mu (that Patrick Cowley used) and finally a Synthétiseur Serge. It is the only analogical material which remains in the studio of the university in 2005.

At the end of the Seventies of many clubs saw the birth of the Disco in San Francisco:

  • Mind Shaft (on Market Street)
  • I-Beam (on Height Street)
  • Dreamland (on Harrison Street)
  • International Disco music (in Oakland)
  • Trocadero Transfer (on Fourth Street)
  • Dance Your Ace Off (in North Beach)
  • The City (between Montgomery and Broadway)

Patrick Cowley was employed as technician light in one of the most famous clubs " The City' S light". It was largest and the most important Gay Disco club of bay of San Francisco. In the basements, Sylvester and its group made spectacles where he played a demonstration of " You Make Me Feel" whose Patrick Cowley made modern arrangements later.

Its career as type-setter began when Sylvester required of him to join it in its studio after having listened to its compositions with the Synthétiseur S (" Kickin' In" , " Coil to Me Hot"). It was very impressed by the technological innovations used by Patrick Cowley. Thus their collaboration in 1978 started, the integration of the synthetizers of Patrick Cowley in music R&B (Rythm and Blues) of Sylvester, the round in South America and Europe.

The sound of Sylvester tranforma with arrangements and the services of Patrick Cowley, work with the analogical synthetizers, the instrument electronic, the sequencers analogical, the modified guitars is the mark of hits like " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) " , " Dance Heat" Disco music; and " Edge' T Dancing" Stop;.

The work of recording of Patrick Cowley on their second album " Step II" raised them with the row of stars international, they sold more than 500.000 discs with State-Plain, gold Disque. Another experiment for Patrick Cowley was on line the recording of the album " Proof" living room; , with the " San Francisco War Memorial Operated House" , on March 11th, 1979.

Patrick Cowley was one of the first artists to succumb of the AIDS. He died in 1982 at the 32 years age.

Discography

  • Menergy
Cód Re-exit. Unidisc SPLK-7040

  1. Menergy 8:41

  2. I Wanna Take You Home 7:48
  3. X-Factor 5:13
  4. I Got has Line One You 6:33
  5. Menergy (Begun again) 3:46

  • Mind Warp

Cód Re-exit. Unidisc SPLK-7053

  1. Tech-No-Logical World 7:43

  2. Invasion 6:44
  3. They Primitive Cam At Night 6:12
  4. Mind Warp 6:36
  5. World 3:01
  6. Mutan Man 5:23
  7. Going Home 5:36
  8. Invasion (Remix) 6:21
  9. Mind Warp (Remix) 7:57
  10. Going Home (Remix) 8:37
  11. Tech-No-Logical World (Instrumental) 7:28
  12. Tech-No-Logical World (Radio Mix) 3:36

Others

  • Be With You (Sylvester - Tip Wirrick) synthetizers by Patrick Cowley
  • Baby You Can Cuts My Lovin' Anytime (Paul Parker) produced and Co-writing by Patrick Cowley
  • Funkytown Revival (Lipps. Inc.), published by DJ Bobby Viteritti and synthetizers by Patrick Cowley
  • back In Coils Again, Again (L.T.D.) published by DJ Steve Algozino and synthetizers by Patrick Cowley
  • Hills Of Katmandu (Tantra) Patrick Cowley Remix
  • I Got The Feeling (Two Tons off Fun) Patrick Cowley Remix
  • Disco Dance hall (Michele) Patrick Cowley Remix
  • Sing Your Own Song (Jeannie Tracy) produced by Patrick Cowley - Megatone records - 1982
  • Time Bomb (Jeannie Tracy) produced by Patrick Cowley - Megaton - 1982
  • Baby I Need Your Loving (LP Carl Carlton - The Bad DC) synthetizers by Patrick Cowley - Recorded with " the Automat" in 1981.
  • Iko Iko (Frank Loverde) synthetizers by Patrick Cowley - 1981
  • Fever (Album) (Joe Bomback - Reed Flagstone - Wedlington Refusals) synthetizers by Patrick Cowley - Product by Blecman- Hedges - 1979
  • I Feel Coils (Donna Summer) Patrick Cowley Remix - 1982

Not marketed

Recorded musics officiellements but ever marketed

  • Astroid Belt I

  • Astroid Belt II
  • Believe In Me
  • My Mind Must Be Free
  • Take Some Coils

To see too

  • Patrick Cowley
  • Jahsonic

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