{"id":12240,"date":"2019-12-09T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=12240"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T01:47:17","slug":"patrick-cowley-mechanical-fantasy-box-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/patrick-cowley-mechanical-fantasy-box-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Cowley &#8211; Mechanical Fantasy Box &#8211; CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>Mechanical Fantasy Box<\/strong>&#8221; is a new collection of 13 unreleased songs recorded between 1973-80 released in tandem with <strong>Patrick Cowley<\/strong>\u2019s homoerotic journal of the same title. Featuring <strong>Patrick<\/strong>\u2019s first electronic compositions in the Electronic Music Lab at CCSF when synthesizers were new technology to songs made at his semi-professional studio on Minna Street equipped with an Oberheim DS-2 digital sequencer. The sound flows from funk to kraut to psychedelic ambient electronics inspired by Tomita and Krafterwerk. As Maurice Tani wrote in the liner notes that accompany this release, \u201cWhat you hold in your hand is a collection of <strong>Cowley<\/strong>&#8216;s work from the years preceding his meteoric rise as a pioneer of Hi-NRG dance music. This was before drum machines. Before programmable, polyphonic digital synthesis. This was before \u201ccutting edge\u201d. This was experimental music in every sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some songs were mixed from 4-track stems by Joe Tarantino and all songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl comes housed in a black and white gatefold jacket designed by Gwena\u00ebl Rattke featuring a photograph by Susan Middleton and include an essay from music partner Maurice Tani and an 8.5&#215;11 insert with notes. Proceeds from &#8220;<strong>Mechanical Fantasy Box<\/strong>&#8221; will be donated to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, who have been committed to ending the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV since 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dark Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Issued by <strong>Dark Entries<\/strong>, &#8220;<strong>Mechanical Fantasy Box<\/strong>&#8221; is a new collection of 13 unreleased songs recorded between 1973-80 released in tandem with <strong>Patrick Cowley<\/strong>\u2019s homoerotic journal of the same title. 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