“When thinking of San Francisco’s golden age of dance music (between 1978 and 1983), two producers come immediately to the mind. Patrick Cowley and Bill Motley have gone on to pop/subculture immortality through their musical efforts which blossomed fully during this period. Bill Motley’s stylized remakes of already popular songs are world renowned and brought those sounds to hundreds of thousands of listeners that the originals couldn’t. Patrick Cowley, on the other hand, forged an electronic sound so new and exciting that it shook the foundations of dance music for years and is still influencing current artists with its haunting simplicity and powerful, driving energy. While many of his contemporaries in the field of electronic music used the technology to create synthesized replications of already existing sounds and rhythms, Patrick Cowley parted the veil and entered a dark world of forbidden forces, wondrous musical panoramas and bold, strident, hopeful possibilities. Patrick brought the future to us and laid it at our feet.”
~David Diebold, Tribal Rites