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GLENN MORRISON - LIVE & MODULAR - DJ MIX - SEPT 2021 - PRESS RELEASE

It was in June 2016 and just over 5 years ago today that Glenn Morrison's majestic 'Goodbye' crashed into the Billboards at Number 1 for 11 weeks in a row.  One of the first Canadian electronic music acts ever to do so, and in the years ahead became a long running battle with bemused Top Of The Pops producers, who couldn't work out what to do with a classical pianist turned underground club wunderkind turned pop superstar, who largely performs behind a mixing desk, absorbed in the act of creation. In a sense, you could see their point.

For the rest of us, it was a good time.  Dance records were starting to make a mass impact on the mainstream.  Invention was in the air.  For Morrison, on the other hand, it was confusion.  Though the establishment classed him as a classical music composer and pianist, DJs would play his tunes and the radio would play his pop hits - this was a multilayered cake of an artist with deep roots in musical understanding and translation.

What Morrison has been doing over these years is quietly spearheading a movement away from the utilitarian musical philosophies that had come to dominate on the club fringe: the idea that to fill a dance floor for a few hours was enough.  As Glenn Morrison, he wanted to make music that you could listen to anywhere; he wanted to play live like a band plays live, to improvise and challenge what it means to be an electronic act on the touring landscape. That word improvise is the key.  To this day, Morrison still declines to describe himself as a 'dance' act.

'I don't differentiate between electronic music or any other kind' says Glenn, who, at the age of 35, is at the forefront of the global electronic music scene, with his classical ambient compositions, to his brooding techno modular iterations, to his meditative piano scores.

In other words, Glenn Morrison has helped to reclaim electronic music as an art form, one with a history stretching back more than 50 years.  Take 'Love You' and the recent single 'Just Over The Bridge', for instance, with their spiralling, chattering main theme and chaotic cross-rhythms - they have more in common with the work of avant grade orchestral composers such as Michael Nyman or Philip Glass. This is allied to a purity of sound most often associated with early electronic pioneers Kraftwerk.  The stuttering arpeggiated clashes of 'Modern Classical' or 'Controlled Randomization' bring to mind the vintage moves of Human League or Brian Eno.  These fragments give a pleasantly direct, post-acid, modern spin.  You can dance to it if you want.  You don't have to.

We are proud to unveil Glenn's latest artistic album offering, and for all news please go to your friendly Google and search for Glenn Morrison on your favourite portals.  We will be pressing limited edition vinyl and check us out on the Alpine Mastering website and store for all label updates.  Thank you for your support after all of these years.

This release will be serviced through Your Army Promo (UK) - for all DJ support and radio spins please speak with Tom and Will Brigham.  Fall From Grace Records / Sony Music 2021.

Glenn Morrison - Live & Modular - DJ Mix - Sept 2021

Updated version of a vintage Nigerian funk track by William Onyeabor

W Onyeabor : Heaven And Hell (Casha Hyde Rework)

Get Around to It (Arthur Russell Cover)

Jan Hammer Group - Don't you know - Benoit de Bonnefamille remix

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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

Mush

Crazy Rhythms

Fa Cé-La

Liquid Diamonds

Morning Song (Original)

Pierre Cavalli - Possarinhos

Casablanca + Beats Of Love

Movoco Synthaca (2004 Remastered Version)

The Makers, "Don’t Challenge Me"

Francis Bebey - The Coffee Cola Song (Young Marco remix)

buy here:

https://rarewirirecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-train-to-80s-chapter-two

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