Nigeria 70 was one of the first crossover albums to dig deep into the African music archives and effectively market the music to a new online audience hungry for rare grooves and unique dancefloor sounds

and massive shards of white noise

Electric Lines is the culmination of all this and more

It's Alive II includes a live show recorded in the UK - Live at Victoria Hall

Patrick Cowley - Muscle Up (2xLP) angelo badalamenti Nigeria 70 was one ofPatrick Joseph Cowley (October 19, 1950 November 12, 1982) was a San Francisco based musician and record producer credited as an early pioneer of electronic dance music, most notably in HI NRG and experimental genres. Cowley grew up in upstate New York where he worked in local rock bands and eventually studied English at the University of Buffalo. After moving to the Bay Area he began an intense study of the synthesizer at San Francisco City College.