pstrongChronicles of sex and disco in '70s San Francisco, from the revolutionary musician behind You Make Me Feel Mighty Real strongppPatrick Cowley 1950-82 was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid '70s, his synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including hits such as You Make Me Feel Mighty Real. Cowley created his own brand of peak-time party music known as Hi-NRG, dubbed the San Francisco Sound. His life was cut short on November 12, 1982, when he died shortly after his 32nd birthday from AIDS-related illness. piMechanical Fantasy Boxi is Cowley's homoerotic journal, or, as he called it, graphic accounts of one man's sex life. The journal begins in 1974 and ends in 1980 on his 30th birthday. It chronicles his slow rise to fame from lighting technician at the City Di