AFTER A PRODIGIOUS CAREER AT PERCEPTION AND TODAY RECORDS AS A SONGWRITER, ARRANGER, INSTRUMENTALIST, AND PRODUCER— WORKING WITH ACTS LIKE BLACK IVORY AND ASTRUD GILBERTO— PATRICK ADAMS FOUND HIS OWN VOICE THROUGH THE KEYS—AND CREATED DISCO FUTURISM IN THE PROCESS. SYNTHESIZER SYMPHONIES
by Mathew R. Warren
By 1975, disco pioneer Patrick Adams had left his job as a songwriter, arranger, and producer at Perception Records and was looking for a new sound—his own sound. “I wanted to do Patrick Adams, but Patrick Adams is not a great singer,” he says. “I decided the synthesizer was going to be my voice.” Through the Minimoog, Adams began to sing uninhibited and raw verses. He recorded a futuristic, ethereal disco cut called “Atmosphere Strut” and soon after met fellow producer and record promoter Peter Brown, who convinced Adams to release the single on a new label, P&P Records. The rest is what serious disco fans talk about when trying to convince nonbelievers of the genre’s value, an onslaught of heavy New York disco grooves from the man who would become known as “the master of the masterpiece.”
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Photography by Terry Adams.
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