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Dark Entries honours the late disco innovator Patrick Cowley with Hard Ware, a special double 12" released to celebrate what would have been his 75th birthday. The legendary American hi-NRG favourite has many groundbreaking synth-driven anthems to his name and left behind a vast archive before his untimely death in 1982. Since 2009, Dark Entries has unearthed his lesser-known works from porn soundtracks to unreleased demos. Hard Ware concludes a trilogy that began with Male Box in 2022 and went on to From Behind 2024. It offers ten tracks of cosmic funk, sleazy synthpop and disco oddities and some fine collaborations with Jeanie Tracy and Peggy Gibbons. This expansive collection really underlines that Cowley was a visionary lost too soon.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A masterclass in huge, funky synth grooves and powerful disco chug. Cowley's reissues catalogue seems to span everything from funk to floaty Balearic-tinged downbeat, to hi-nrg dancefloor business, and here we get it all in one fantastic place. Legendary.

TRACK LISTING

1 Hellfire
2 Tech-No
3 Spellbinding Lover (feat. Jeanie Tracy)
4 Pajama Party Massacre
5 Big Ass In Motion
6 Shake It Up
7 Perk It Up
8 Jungle Jump
9 Megablue
10 Ice Age (feat. Peggy Gibbons)