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R.I.P. Yukihiro Takahashi 💔🥁 Yellow Magic Orchestra “Rydeen” live at The Greek Theatre in L.A. 4th August, 1979
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here’s footage from the 1971 performance of Sylvester singing “Blackbird” by The Beatles
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Remembering Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) “With the furore of the heady disco days behind him, he said he wouldn’t have changed a thing. But admitted his priorities had now changed. “At the time of “Mighty Real” I didn’t want to sing disco & I had no choice…
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On September 6th, what would be Sylvester’s 76th birthday, we release Private Recordings: August 1970, an intimate collection of vintage jazz, blues, and gospel. These are the earliest known recordings from one of disco’s greatest talents. 🎹
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R.I.P. Ennio Morricone. Thank you for the mythical soundtracks and for inspiring Peter Hook's bassline on "Blue Monday"
@peterhook
@neworder
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R.I.P. Steve Albini “Nobody made noise sound so good”
His work with the Breeders, Low, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Nirvana, GYBE changed our life for the better 💔
🎥 bonus scene from D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)
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Happy belated birthday (November 14) to trans pioneer synth composer Wendy Carlos - who put machine-made music on the map with her soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange, Tron, The Shining. video taken in her Greenwich Village studio, 1989 🐈🎹
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R.I.P. Q Lazzarus 💔 goodbye horses… i’m crying over you 😭
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We sad to announce that the legendary artist Rex has passed away. We are grateful to have worked with him the past 6 years printing new t-shirts and posters from his iconic designs. He was one the most important homoerotic artists of 1970s and 1980s.
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On this World AIDS Day we remember the talented souls taken from us too soon. Sylvester and Patrick Cowley were musical geniuses forever inspiring generations to come. Proud to honor and carry their torch 🎗️❤️🔥
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after 13 years of running a record label I’ve decided to open a record store. Dark Entries brick and mortar opens at 910 Larkin St SF on Dec 10 w/ DJs Carlos Souffront, Topazu and Jeremy Castillo from 6-9pm. thanks to
@mikeservito
for pushing me to make this dream a reality 🥰
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on the eve of Patrick Cowley’s 70th birthday, his music is still making people dance around the world
#lobovasquez
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Patrick Cowley’s remix of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ was released 40 years ago, on 20 November 1982. 🪩❤️
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R.I.P Mike Huckaby. You will forever continue to change so many peoples lives with your music, technique and mentoring. These clips of Huck are from ‘Detroit The Blueprint Of Techno’ 💔
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ummm Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys just ordered the new Patrick Cowley album via bandcamp and added a generous tip. I am in shock and can die now.
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Remembering Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) who passed away 35 years ago today. “I've been gay for 41 years - I’m 41 years old. I didn't need to take the AIDS antibody test. I know what I've done. Why would I waste those $90 when I could go shopping?”
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unbelievable footage of Sylvester and Patrick Cowley playing You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) on HOT CITY Disco in September 1978. thanks to
@HONEYDIJON
for sharing. We’ve uploaded this and Dance (Disco Heat) & Grateful to our youtube channel. ❤️💃🏾🕺🏾
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R.I.P. Dave Greenfield, keyboardist for The Stranglers, due to COVID-19
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RIP Gabi Delgado-López (18 April 1958 - 22 March, 2020) I remember buying my first DAF album at Rebel Rebel on Bleecker Street in NY because of the Gabi’s sweaty, hairy chest on the cover. Thankfully the music matched the imagery fronted by his visceral vocals. 💔😢😭
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“At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women , please , do this one favor for us -leave us the fuck alone ! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records “ - Kurt Cobain, liner notes “Incesticide” 1993
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Remembering Patrick Cowley (Oct 19, 1950 - Nov 12, 1982) who passed away 41 years ago today from AIDS-related illness. We honor his legacy and preserve his contributions to electronic music that forever changed the dance world.
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R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto 💔 Your creative brilliance had no limits. Eternally grateful for how you changed the way we all hear music 🎹🎼🕊️
clip from "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (1983), for which he did the soundtrack too
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Sylvester performing “Do You Wanna Funk” on Italian TV show Discoring November 21, 1982, nine days after Patrick Cowley passed away.
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Sylvester sings “Stormy Weather” a 1933 torch song popularized by his aunt Etta James in 1960. Available on steaming platforms today. Taken from Private Recordings August 1970. Join us on September 6 for Sylvester’s birthday and album release party at Dark Entries from 6-9pm
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R.I.P. Andy Fletcher of
@depechemode
"Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist, and I bum around." 💔
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Juan I love you like a brother. supportive since day one. always texting me words of encouragement. forever in awe of your music & dj skills. i appreciate everything you’ve done for me & Dark Entries, you mean the world to me. forever grateful you were in my life 💔
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Happy Mother’s Day to the Queen of Disco, Sylvester in a Ritz Cracker sweater on a plane headed to NYC November 1971. Sylvester joined performance art troupe The Cockettes on a cross-country trip for a series of ‘Nocturnal Dream Shows’ at the Anderson Theatre in NY. 📸 Bud Lee
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Library of Congress has added"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" by Sylvester to the National Recording Registry - it "honors the music that enriches our souls, the voices that tell our stories and the sounds that mirror our lives." From French TV, 1979 w/ Patrick Cowley on synth!
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Remembering Frankie Knuckles who passed away 7 years ago today 💔 Innovative producer, remixer, DJ, and godfather of house. Video from October 25,1986 opening night of Powerhouse Nightclub, Chicago 🎹
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Remembering Andrew Weatherall who passed away 4 years ago today 🕊️ we will never forget when he said this: absolute guarantee of quality if you see a record even if you don’t know the band, and Dark Entries has put it out, if you don’t like it, I’ll personally refund your money
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Remembering Arthur Russell (May 21, 1951 - April 4, 1992) with some words from his long term partner Tom Lee 💔
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R.I.P. VANGELIS 🇬🇷 (MARCH 29, 1943 – MAY 19, 2022) MODERN CLASSICAL COMPOSER OF METAL MACHINE MUSIC 🎹
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My Mine - Hypnotic Tango 🪩 1983 Italo disco club classic fresh vinyl repress out now. The song captured the imagination of House and Techno producers like Frankie Knuckles whose remix is included ⚡️
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just found Patrick Cowley's cover of "I Feel Love" mind blown forever 😭🤯
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Mourning the loss of Luis Vasquez of The Soft Moon. I remember seeing his first show in Oakland and being blown away by his sheer force and presence. Those early Soft Moon days were a whirlwind of excitement and injected a breath of fire into the Bay Area darkwave scene. 💔
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R.I.P. Monte Cazazza an uncompromising and nonconforming innovator who forever changed the industrial (a word he coined) musical landscape of San Francisco and beyond
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To celebrate
#303day
here’s Chris & Cosey ‘Dancing Ghosts’ which features the TB-303, recorded 1983, released the following year. “Remembering the great time we had dancing to ‘Dancing Ghosts’ as we made the video for our C&C album Elemental 7.”
@ChrisAndCosey
@coseyfannitutti
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award-winning documentary film The Sound of Belgium is available to stream for free from EBM and New Beat to Belgian house and techno! Director’s cut with 7 tracks that weren't included in the official release.
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just when you think there is no more... you ask Patrick Cowley’s studio mate if you can look in their attic and with a phone flashlight you discover 40 more reels of music from 1974-79... 😱🕺
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Happy Pi Day! Anita Bryant hit in the face with pie October 14, 1977 🥧 Friendly reminder: if somebody is working to deny your humanity and civil rights, you don’t have to be nice to them.
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R.I.P. Sinead O’Connor 💔 seen receiving the award for No 1 World Single (Nothing Compares To U) from
@jonimitchell
at the
@BBMAs
1990
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“Music is a very personal thing. How you deal with your music is very closely linked with how you deal with your life. If you misuse your capacities as a musician, you’re misusing your capacities as human being and you’re taking humanity in the wrong direction” - Arthur Russell
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10 years ago we released the first volume of soundtracks by Patrick Cowley. "School Daze" is a collection of Cowley's instrumental songs recorded 1973 - 1981 & influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder. Now it’s a meme 😂
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how do you say deee-genius? R.I.P. Thierry Mugler 💔Deee-Lite runway mix of "What is Love?" for Mugler's 1991 Spring/Summer Collection
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Happy Sylvester Day! On March 11, 1979, Sylvester, Martha Wash, Izora Rhodes, Jeanie Tracy, Patrick Cowley, & the SF Symphony Orchestra performed at the Opera House. He took one hit of acid before belting out a 2-hour show to a sold out audience 💕⭐️🎙️
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“Being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective.” SOPHIE 💔 Rest in Power
@SOPHIEMSMSMSM
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Today we release Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989, the first compilation of Mexican synth pop, new wave, and post-punk available digitally and on vinyl. Art design by Gwenaël Rattke with a 12-page booklet loaded with photos, lyrics, and liner notes. 🇲🇽
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HAPPY SYLVESTER DAY 🌟
On March 11, 1979, the SF mayor proclaimed the day as “Sylvester Day,” recognizing the pioneering art of the supreme diva. That evening, Sylvester performed a 3-hour concert at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House—all while under the influence of LSD
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Devastated to announce the death of our legendary mastering engineer George Horn due to COVID, post-vaccination. There are not enough words to describe how George was instrumental to Dark Entries’ sound, growth and success.
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we’ve been working on a Q Lazzarus reissue since we started the label 15 years ago and it will finally see the light of day this year in conjunction with an amazing documentary on Q’s life by
@EvaAridjis
🐎💜 Please help fund this film if you can
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i tried to reissue his music a few years back and his response was perfect and expected
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The places that our imaginations can take us are so far away from what we are presented with a lot of the time. So, I can’t get too excited about anything happening now I’m really excited about what should be happening in the future, what hopefully will happen. - SOPHIE R.I.P. 💔
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joni mitchell live 💗 that’s it, i can die now
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R.I.P. Nini Nobless (formerly Denis LePage) of Canadian Disco/ Hi-NRG duo LIME, who’s productions will continue to influence dance music forever 🎹
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"Mad" Mike Banks of Underground Resistance talks about hearing Kraftwerk for the first time on The Electrifying Mojo’s radio show and how seeing them live in 1981 changed his life. Interview from Detroit Public Radio, article from The Michigan Daily, July 28, 1981.
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Happy birthday to the godfather of House Frankie Knuckles who talks about dealing with haters for
@5Magazine
in 2011 💖
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1 year ago today we experienced the biggest loss the San Francisco music scene has ever experienced. The Ghost Ship Fire took 36 beautifully creative young souls from us. There is no way to recover from this tragedy but honoring those who left such a huge impact on so many of us.
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my ‘90s teen fantasy came true 💘 i was interviewed by
@SPIN
Magazine on discovering and releasing long-forgotten 1980s porn soundtracks by Patrick Cowley and Man Parrish 😈
(yes, that’s Patrick Cowley’s reel to reel behind me)
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Thirty-one years ago today, artist David Wonarowicz died of AIDS. He was 37 years old. We were honored to reissue his music with 3 Teens Kill 4.
“It is exhausting, living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.”
@WojFound
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walking into 2024 like Sylvester and his Borzoi 🐾 Grateful, every day 🎶
📸 Peter Mintun 1971
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28 years ago we lost a genius who’s music forever inspires us. Arthur Russell (May 21, 1951 – April 4, 1992) was a cellist, composer, producer and singer who died of AIDS in Manhattan. He was 40 years old. 💔
@theaidsmemorial
@AudikaRecords
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tonight in portland was all about 17 seconds 🕰️we got the tour debut of M!!!!
@thecure
@CraigatCoF
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Remembering Patrick Cowley (October 19, 1950 - November 12, 1982) who passed away 35 years ago today from AIDS related illness. His music continues to inspire, provoke and excite generation after generation. You are a star, and you only happen once.
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the forever gorgeous Sylvester 💜
can’t wait to announce our next archival project soon 🎙️
Photo by Jere Donaby
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unreleased Arthur Russell recording from 1985 available now via Roulette. In this 49 minute concert Russell was experimenting with repeated phrases and lines, as if testing them out, which likely emerged later in more developed versions. 😱😭❤️
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Today Apollo Masters burned down. It supplied 90% of lacquers for the WORLD (material used for cutting vinyl masters). There is only only supplier left now in Japan. Expect huge delays and setbacks from every label that makes records via this process. 😞
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this evening is the grand opening of the Dark Entries record store at 910 Larkin St. 6-9pm. What a journey these past 14 months have been. Thanks to everyone who supported me into this next chapter of my life 💕
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RIP Cristina Monet (Zilkha) Palaci, of ZE Records fame, at 61. From complications of COVID-19.
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Remembering Patrick Cowley (Oct 19, 1950 - Nov 12, 1982) who passed away 38 years ago today from AIDS-related illness. We continue to preserve his spirit everyday, honoring his legacy and contributions to electronic music that changed the dance world forever.
@sfchronicle
💔
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R.I.P. Richard H. Kirk you changed the fabric of music forever and will not be forgotten 😢
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Today marks seven years since the Ghost Ship warehouse fire claimed 36 lives in Oakland on December 2, 2016. They were artists, musicians, sound engineers, DJs and events organizers. And for many of us they were also our friends never forgotten 💔
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Code Industry ‘Fury’ “sounding like Chris & Cosey meets Suburban Knight” shows the outfit pushing harder into the then-nascent Detroit techno sound, with spare synths and disembodied vocal snippets. Structure reissue out June 19th
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R.I.P. Chris Huggett, creator of the Caterpiller, Gnat, OSCar, Spider, Wasp and a series of synths for Novation like the Bass Station and the Peak. Solid Space used the Wasp all over 'Space Museum' (every track except Contemplation)
@MafVosburgh
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Remembering Sylvester James, who passed away 33 years ago on this day. (Sep 6, 1947 – Dec 16, 1988) “𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞.”
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meanwhile we are sorting through 5+ hours of Patrick Cowley material for another 2xLP of unreleased archival material to accompany a book release later this year...
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The quantity and quality of music still being unearthed from the late San Francisco producer Patrick Cowley's archives continues to be dizzying - and not just out of nostalgia value by any means. Following albums of his woozy porn soundtracks and some distinctly lo-fi funk demos,
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please support Wendy, who’s still with us, by buying her music directly from her site 💿
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I Feel Love By Donna Summer Turns 45 this year and
@juderogers
celebrates with an in-depth look at how the song came about and how Patrick Cowley created the definitive remix.
@theQuietus
🎹
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when Patrick Cowley’s sister asked us to make sweatshirts with her brothers face on them we jumped at the opportunity. She says, “I miss this face but at least I can now give him a hug. Best sweatshirt ever” 💗
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Remembering Patrick Cowley (Oct 19, 1950-Nov 12, 1982) who passed away 39 years ago today. We wanted to share these beautiful words from his back up singers, Carol McMackin. “In October of 1982, we just had come off a tour and I found out that Patrick was sick and in the hospital
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R.I.P. Sarah Dash 💔 from the soul funk of the Bluebells to the Afrofuturism of LaBelle to her solo disco albums and Hi-NRG anthems, we love you 💕
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The funeral service was held in the Love Centre church in a large converted theatre in Oakland. His body was dressed in a gold-embroidered red kimono, his hair was bright red and his lips bright pink. Sylvester looked as fabulous in death as he did in life.” - Sharon Davis
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Yellow Magic Orchestra - Live On Soul Train 1980 🧨
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remembering Frankie Knuckles (January 18, 1955 – March 31, 2014) 💗
Happy Frankie Knuckles Day! "Thank you for being unwavering in your ❤️ for music & being gracious enough to share your ❤️ with us, your adoring and enduring family, friends & fans. Thank you for challenging us to seek new realities & to continue growing as people." Randy Crumpton
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Dark Entries flashes back to the streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard. “post-industrial gristle and dubbed-out no wave clatter gunked with possessed vox”
@boomkatonline
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come see our Sylvester exhibit this weekend 1-5pm 🪩 Archival flyers, photos, ephemera and Patrick Cowley’s reel to reel deck! Dark Entries Records 910 Larkin St SF
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Seminal EBM-techno outfit Code Industry surfaces on Dark Entries with a reissue of their Structure EP. Detroit-based musicians Rob Myers, E.N. Sevy, Kyl Cris, & William Keith formed Code Industry in 1989. It will be released on Juneteenth as a celebration of powerful Black music
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Remembering Arthur Russell (May 21, 1951 - Apr 4, 1992) “devastation of...dying of AIDS is that people just won’t hear about all these writers, musicians, dancers & composers that we’re not gonna hear from just because they’ve gotten this disease & there’s no cure for it” Tom Lee
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happy heavenly birthday to the fabulous Sylvester! "I was having fights with Fantasy...they wanted to change my image. I sashayed up to the president's office and I swirled around in front of him and said, 'YOU may be trying to change my image, but I'M not. This IS the image.'”
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Henry Rollins just ordered the Severed Heads 'Clean' reissue from my website 😭💀
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the sweetest man just stopped by the shop thinking today was the Sylvester release party. He drove from LA & said Sylvester helped him come out. He saw Sylvester in concert & said he was gracious, staying late to sign autographs. He thanked me & said "Sylvester thanks you too"😭
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Dear Music Friends, here’s an open source spreadsheet of Ukrainian artists/labels via
@violetakaviolet
Please share and directly support 🇺🇦
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"Be reasonable - Demand the impossible." Vivienne Westwood R.I.P. Queen
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