Patrick Joseph Cowley
By an awful lot of user-demand, I have finally created ogg files out of a unique vinyl pressing from 1981. It's no surprise that I get emailed a lot about requests that are on this page, but sometimes there's more to it than meets the eye. I got asked to specifically record/encode the ORIGINAL versions of a few tracks, not the 'let's remaster them, he's dead now anyway' releases (that all came out after synth meister Patrick Cowley died of aids in 1982).So, I proudly present "I Got A Line On You", "I Wanna Take You Home", "X-Factor" and the "Menergy (reprise)", download-links are in the top-left column. I especially recommend you to get "I Got A Line On You", with the amazing vocal lead of Jo-Carol Block that seems to be pure whitebread soul energy, in this excentric fast dance cover of the 1969-original by Randy California. Nobody mixed down tracks like Cowley did, with such fascinating subtle arrangements, with those warm long lexicon reverbs and echoes. Not to mention the daring stereo-images on the vocals. Vocals that sound like they are a magic glue holding his synths together. Just think, he recorded these tracks using an eight track…