Today marks 9 years since trans icon Cristina “La Veneno”Ortiz passed away. She released a dance record in 1996 that we proudly reissued in 2023. 🏳️‍⚧️

Decompose is the title track from the sophomore Bézier album out Nov 14. The song takes the form of a Buddhist chant, a brooding synth-driven meditation that scales steadily until breaking into John Carpenter-esque arpeggios halfway through.
🎥 The Hunger (1983) bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose

The Pool “Dance It Down” (1983)
The Pool was composer and producer Patrick Keel. Our reissue of his spartan song of empowerment that you can dance to is out now www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/...

Pajama Party Massacre” is a New Wave song with a hilarious vocal performance from Cowley that tells a camp slasher story worthy of John Carpenter. It’s naive, punky, and maybe a little goth, predating the legions of weirdo gays who would find solace in gory horror movies. - Andrew Ryce

positively skewed cover of “Singin’ in the Rain” by Evelyne/Masao (TESTPATTERN) shows affinity for continental French and Japanese electronics. Evelyne’s vocals alternate deftly between New Wave deadpan and unhinged chanson singer. 🇫🇷 🇯🇵
evelynemasao.bandcamp.com

“A hypnotic flow of ambient techno, slow-step, and dub textures” 🧖🏼‍♀️
Coatshek ‘Sound Bath’ album release party Saturday November 1st at Pallas Gallery 6pm FREE live performance 🎸 🎹

Soft Cell’s cover of “Tainted Love” is by far the most innovative merger of synths and soul, that signified a new sound. They laid the raw foundations that so many pop groups built their sounds on.

I was lucky enough work with Dave on a reissue of his Psychic TV acid house project from 1988, “Blue Pyramid” by Virginia. I love this interview with Soft Cell talking about their relationship and early days

The Pool was a project of Patrick Keel, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and performer from Dallas, then Austin, Texas created in 1980 as an outlet for tight, skeletal, synthetic dance music. The Pool reissue is back in print, with a 12-page booklet. thepool.bandcamp.com/album/dance-it-down

Join us today at 11am PST for a free Patrick Cowley listening party to celebrate Hard Ware @bandcamp.com
Listen to the music with us and chat about the making of the album. 💿 patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/merch/hard-ware-listening-party

On November 14th, Bézier ripples their way back to Dark Entries with Decompose, an LP of doomed spa music. It is an album almost ten years in the making, a deep investigation of life, loss, and the struggle of knowing oneself. bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose

Patirck Cowley’s chilling synth-hymn ”Ice Age,” in which Loverde vocalist Peggy Gibbons sings of a coming frosty apocalypse. The story told in “Ice Age” mirrors the coming AIDS crisis and feels like a haunting premonition from Cowley.
patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/hard-w...

Experience the vibrant sounds of “Mexican Tecno Pop” with Dark Entries’ two collections. Featuring analog drum boxes and catchy synth melodies, these first ever Mexican new wave and post punk compilations to be released on vinyl showcases lesser-known DIY musicians and previously unreleased cuts 🇲🇽

“Spellbinding Lover,” a Donna Summer-indebted melancholic boogie masterpiece that features Sylvester backup singer Jeanie Tracy. Written and recorded in 1979 by Patrick Cowley and unreleased until now! Hard Ware is out Oct 19th celebrating his 75th birthday patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/hard-w...

Join us October 15th for a screening of THE CURE IN ORANGE at 4StarTheater at 7pm 🍊 🎞️
The Cure co-founder @loltolhurst.bsky.social will be there for a Q&A and Book Signing 📖 Plus live performance by r.image 🎹
www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-...