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Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the cannon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music coined \"The San Francisco Sound.\" Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time Patrick, along with his classmates Maurice Tani and Art Adcock, would create radio jingles and electronic pieces using the school's equipment, first a Putney, then an E-MU System and finally a Serge synthesizer. He would make experimental instrumental songs by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy the mid-70's, Patrick's synthesizer skills landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and \"Stars.\" This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Of particular note was his 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life. By 1981 Patrick released a string of dance 12\" singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”, creating the soundtrack for a generation. Also that year, he founded Megatone Records and released his debut album. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with a then-unknown illness: that would later be called AIDS. Prior to his passing on November 12, 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester and \"Right On Target\" for Paul Parker as well as a second solo album “Mind Warp”.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1979 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. John had heard about Patrick's music from the legendary Sylvester and proposed he write music for his films. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick's songs in-sync with the film scene. “Muscle Up\" is a collection of Cowley's instrumental songs recorded between 1973 and 1980 found in the Fox Studio vaults. This compilation also includes bonus compositions found in the basement of Megatone Records owner John Hedges and the attic of former bandmate Maurice Tani. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick forged an electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers, percussion, modified guitars and self-constructed equipment. The listener enters a world of dark forbidden vices, introspective and reflective of Patrick's time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “Muscle Up” are divided into four sides, from the ambient, jungle journey of side one to the instrumental demo version of “Somebody to Love Tonight” on side two, to the space-funk of side three and finally the interstellar workouts of side four, that further reveal the depth of Cowley's unique talent.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing 75 minutes of music, this compilation contains soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, \"Muscle Up\" and \"School Daze\", plus additional songs from the same era, never before released on vinyl. 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Seemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom and photosynthetic eukaryotes of every genus were hanging off walls, lording over bookshelves, and basking on sunny window ledges. The science behind \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eSecret Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e was specious: plants can hear our prayers, they’re lie detectors, they’re telepathic, able to predict natural disasters and receive signals from distant galaxies. But that didn’t stop millions from buying and nurturing their new plants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePerhaps the craziest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And whether you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e, an album recorded especially for them. Subtitled “warm earth music for plants…and the people that love them,” it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog. Plants date back from the dawn of time, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eapparently\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e they loved the Moog, never mind that the synthesizer had been on the market for just a few years. Most of all, the plants loved the ditties made by composer Mort Garson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eFew characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” the answer was simple. Well before Brian Eno did it, Garson was making discreet music, both the man and his music as inconspicuous as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eChlorophytum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ecomosum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel alike into easy listening \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eand also\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e dreamed up his own ditties. “An \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eBut as his daughter Day \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eDarmet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e recalls: “When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn’t want to do pop music anymore.” Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society’s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eidears\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e could be transformed. “He constantly had a song he was humming,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eDarmet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e says. “At the table he was constantly tapping.” Which is to say that Mort pulled his melodies out of thin air, just like any household plant would. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eThe Plantae kingdom grew to its height by 1976, from DC Comics’ mossy superhero \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eSwamp Thing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e to Stevie Wonder’s own herbal meditation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eJourney Through the Secret Life of Plants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e. Nefarious manifestations of human-plant interaction also abounded, be it the grotesque pods in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e or the pothead paranoia of the US Government spraying Mexican marijuana fields with the herbicide paraquat (which led to the rise in homegrown pot by the 1980s). And then there’s the warm, leafy embrace of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e“My mom had a lot of plants,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eDarmet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e says. “She didn’t believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible.” And she also knew when her husband had a good song, shouting from another room when she heard him humming a good \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eidear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e. Novel as it might seem, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e is simply full of good tunes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eGarson may have given the album away to new plant and bed owners, but a decade later a new generation could hear his music in another surreptitious way. Millions of kids bought \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eThe Legend of Zelda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e for their Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1986 and one distinct 8-bit tune bears more than a passing resemblance to album highlight “Concerto for Philodendron and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePothos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e.” Garson was never properly credited for it, but he nevertheless subliminally slipped into a new generations’ head, helping kids and plants alike grow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eHearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e in the 21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003est\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e century, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him. “My dad would be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003etotally\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003eDarmet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e says of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003ePlantasia’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s17\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont20\"\u003enew renaissance. “He would be fascinated by the fact that people are finally understanding and appreciating this part of his musical career that he got no admiration for back then.” Garson seems to be everywhere again, even if he’s not really noticed, just like a houseplant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Republic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39440828498001,"sku":"","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0051\/1380\/6921\/products\/2c5d1ab9a9f7668030c11a542c5fbfee.png?v=1554111201"},{"product_id":"big-supermarket-1800","title":"Big Supermarket - 1800","description":"Rest-of-the-World pressing of Big Supermarket’s debut LP, previously released in mid 2018 in Australia-only via the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhobbiesgaloremelbourne%2F%3F__tn__%3DK-R%26eid%3DARC4faGnthhCkllBQgkXbGa4k-DjyFjJRtgrRQQyDyYpzW76Hgj3vH51Gn98J0aKSG4e847etsxHdSou%26fref%3Dmentions%26__xts__%255B0%255D%3D68.ARAkV0FTQwHcxmFpUpSVxASMex9yY79CGzDK68eEwyPT78cG46P2gQpZCsYkBA4QALr_pZWMjkpdrESrcXQlnnKKMsECrnTJ3nYj6oV04eTawcr1qf1mcqOtEr2jFCivmm_spQr4Sr7Opwag7wWo7pS7fl83KbbYArzzB4hB92LjzGZqhJpeczcCCSFrUoqWymqt9A3eriBvEnlTwlCjhkFNCszQ4OW4r3S_qTutw0l80_QVyKoPdRSvIw6Lpb9r7gZ4SyoTYONSAEBjxcXrNOt5oeiQ3NE_rGH_dfjcI59JDjIJVfqhHIS8QoTuKwZDfGlkeonEGaWWurFXuhWQD7Y6FFW7BwWgbKHHuGoRiAlSD114PwQsx5Cv\u0026amp;t=MTJmZGE2MDI4M2YyZWYwMTJiZDNjNzZmMjY3YmY3YmY0OGRmNWIyYSw2aEpyNzVSdw%3D%3D\u0026amp;b=t%3A3LAt9g_zfR4QCicVXoxikQ\u0026amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Ftoughloverecords.com%2Fpost%2F183743849314%2Fi-think-i-spent-more-than-half-of-last-year\u0026amp;m=1\"\u003eHobbies Galore\u003c\/a\u003e label. 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I make that distinction not just because this was music designed for specific environments (ie the home), but that Hirose makes conscious efforts to incorporate organic sounds, as if the 'natural' and the manmade are indistinguishable, or better still (especially when you're trying to sell houses), at one. In the context of 2019 and our new relationships with technology, such things might be viewed more cynically (hyperreality is hypercommerciality). But it's hard not to be moved by such peaceful wonder, of such purity of vision expressed so patiently. Sometimes this sounds like what you might hear if there were no music playing, no extraneous noise or distraction. What a thought. What an impossibility. Consdier it a form of escapism. 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