What's Your Voodoo?

What's Your Voodoo? (Dark Spirits Mix)

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. 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. 
By 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. 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”.
In 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.  
Featuring 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. The tapes were restored and transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA.  The vinyl comes housed in a extra wide spine jacket and giant fold-out poster featuring a handmade collage using photography and xerox graphics of classic gay porn imagery from the Fox Studio vaults by Berlin-based artist Gwenael Rattke. Each double album also contains a 8x11 glossy promotional “Muscle Up” replica poster with original VHS artwork plus an essay from Maurice Tani. For Patrick's 65th birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records present a glimpse into the futuristic world of a young genius.

Somebody To Love Tonight

Doug Hream Blunt - Big Top

Lay Me Down | Renée (1982)

Richenel - Gentle Friend (04:28)

Richenel - I Won't Bite (04:56)

Richenel - Slave Of The Body / Mind (03:19)

Possessions And Obsessions

Parallel Dance Ensemble - Juices

Champagne in Mozambique

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Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Flexible Heart

!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 versions of the original tracks!!!

LC 02518
BC: 673794239231
Artist: V.A.
Title: Compost Ambient Selection Vol. 2 – The Quiet Room – Smooth Spheric Noise – compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert
Cat No: CPT 392-3/-4
Release Date: March 30th 2012
Format: Download

Tracklisting:

01 Jean Paul Bondy – Monochrome
02 Ennio Morricone - La Ragazza Del Padre (Dan Curtin Viaggio Alle Stelle Remix)
03 Ben Mono – Tired
04 Felix Laband - Minka 
05 Alif Tree - Les 4 Vents
06 Beanfield - Interlude No. 21102
07 Joash - Your Star Still Shines
08 TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos - The Quiet Room (Rob Smith Remix)
09 Taran - Death And The Bachelor
10 TJ Kong & Nuno dos Santos - The Emerald Bay
11 The Nova Dream Sequence - Dream 1
12 The Nova Dream Sequence - Dream 11
13 Alif Tree - Melismes Extatiques
14 Four Ears – Interlude
15 Genf - Import Export (Kandis Mix)
16 Alif Tree - Forgotten Places (Felix Laband Remix)
17 Funkstoerung – Inmarsat
18 Kyoto Jazz Massive - M.E. Outroduction
19 T_Mo - Fork Any Hawks
20 TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos - Always Forever Now

Info:

After one and a half decade and more than 370 releases, Compost Records bundles some of their finest tunes as Various Artists digital download compilation albums. 
The variety and full spectrum of Compost’s repertoire has never or rarely been presented in form of a musical genre compilation. These releases will be compiled or DJ-mixed by Compost’s artists and are available as digital downloads, except in some rare cases very very limited as 500 CDs.
How to define ambient? In the strictest sense Compost Records hardly offers any of this. But what if you decide to look within tracks and add some darkness and deep beats here and there....? Well, there you have it.
Rupert & Mennert already dug into the big Compost archives to deliver selections of remixes, downbeat, experimental and jazz (vol. 1 & 2). This successor will be their sixth mixed selection. But this one is different... this time they dug so deep into the vault that they were actually lost for several weeks. Luckily they had their record player and laptop with them so they survived! And when they resurfaced, what did they dig up? A great compilation of literally ‘parts of music’. With a total of 20 tracks and loads of snippets, they deliver a mix of 67 minutes which is the ultimate ‘Compost Ambient Experience’! To listen to the tracks on their own is great, but mixed together it’s astonishing.
What to expect? Tracks from Jean Paul Bondy, Dan Curtin, Ben Mono, Felix Laband, Joash, Alif Tree, Taran, TJ Kong & Nuno dos Santos, The Nova Dream Sequence (= King Britt), Four Ears, Genf, KJM and Funkstörung. They also layed their hands on two new exclusive tracks which were never heard before on Compost. An old and rare track from Beanfield and a track from T_Mo (= Timo Garcia).
So please relax and treat yourself to the dark ambient sounds of the Compost cosmos!
Who are Rupert&Mennert?
They reside in Den Helder, The Netherlands. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. From there they send their fine radio show into the wide world. The show is currently re-invented. The Sound of Swound ran for more then 200 shows. But it will be replaced by something even better: “Weird Pigs - not for copycats”. Besides their love for broadcasting they produce music too. Together with Me Raabenstein they released, as Lagerfeltz, an album on Nonine Recordings, Berlin.Together with remix-work for Energie du Verre and Ensemble du Verre (Batterie Records, Hamburg) and Timo Garcia (Compost) their release-roster is building. The cherry on the cake is the selection of one of their remixes on the new Future Sound of Jazz 12 (picked by the Compost head-honcho himself).
And off course you can expect more Compost Selections from their hand too. Currently they are working on a second ‘Remixes Selection ‘and a ‘Female Vocals Selection’.
More information or bookings: www.rupertmennert.nl
Contact them directly through info@rupertmennert.nl



The Compost Selection releases:

V.A. Compost Ambient Selection Vol.1
„Sleeping Beauty“ – Compost Relax Works compiled and mixed by Minus 8  (limited edition CD, Download)
V.A. Compost House Selection Vol. 1
„10.000 Leagues Deeper“ – Compost House Cosmos. compiled and mixed by Thomas Herb (Download)
V.A. Compost HipHop Selection Vol.1
„ 2Hot 2Cold 2Tuff„  - Compost HipHop Hunk compiled and mixed by Sepalot (Download)
V.A. Compost Disco Selection Vol.1
“Astro Boogie„  -  Neo Disco Voltage compiled and mixed by Michael Reinboth (Download)
V.A. Compost Jazz Selection Vol. 1
„See The Sun“ – Compost Jazz Affairs. compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)
V.A. Compost Downbeat Selection Vol. 1
„Ocean Beat“ – Compost Warm Organic Harmony compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)
V.A. Compost House Selection Vol. 2
„Get Slapped Up“ – House Moods compiled and mixed by Shahrokh Dini (Download)
V.A. Compost Downbeat Selection Vol. 2
„One Step Forward“ – Warm Pop And Folky compiled and mixed by Michael Reinboth (Download)
V.A. Compost Jazz Selection Vol. 2
„ Crosswinds“ – Compost Jazz Affairs compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)
V.A. Compost Experimental Selection Vol. 1
„ Crosswinds“ – Compost Jazz Affairs compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)
V.A. Compost Remixes Selection Vol. 1
„ Crosswinds“ – Compost Jazz Affairs compiled and mixed by Rupert & Mennert (Download)


forthcoming Compost Selection releases:

V.A. Compost Brazil Selection compiled and mixed by Tom Burclay
V.A. Compost Drum & Bass  Selection compiled and mixed by Christian Prommer 
V.A. Compost Broken Beat Selection Compiled and mixed by Eddy Ramich (Eddy Meets Yannah)
V.A. Compost Disco Selection Vol. 2
V.A. Compost Remixes Selection Vol.2

13. Alif Tree - Melismes Extatiques

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Ingleton Falls