{"product_id":"muscle-up","title":"Muscle Up","description":"Following Dark Entries' 2013 release School Daze, a collection of experimental recordings Patrick Cowley recorded between 1973 and 1981 that were used as soundtracks to gay pornographic films, the label released a second volume, Muscle Up, in 2015. As with the first collection, this one features extended ambient soundscapes (some of which run past the ten-minute mark) which bear little resemblance to the style of hi-NRG disco that Cowley helped pioneer. However, this set does include an instrumental version of \"Somebody to Love Tonight,\" a percolating midtempo disco number that Cowley co-wrote with Sylvester, one of his most prominent collaborators. The two shortest tracks on the collection, \"Pigfoot\" and \"5oz of Funk,\" are synth-laden heavy funk cuts that could easily be released as a 7\" on Stones Throw. \"The Jungle Dream\" and \"Mockingbird Dream 2\" (a longer version of a track included on School Daze) incorporate bird calls and other nature sounds for a sort of cyber-exotica hybrid, and \"Timelink\" similarly features the droning sounds of a didgeridoo over cosmic synth arpeggios. As with School Daze, the entire album is remarkable, and demonstrates the unlimited potential that the late producer had as a film composer. ~ Paul Simpson","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42627554214053,"sku":"744271372151","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/ff4c09d5cf55bc9c75966ac3b750b9ef.jpg?v=1777728022","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-de\/products\/muscle-up","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}