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darkentries.bsky.social
Dark Entries Records
@darkentries.bsky.social
open Fri-Sun 1-5pm
and by appointment
910 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Superb archival electro anomaly from Slovenia circa 1984…strange, eerie and hypnotic. Absolutely original sounds with tribal and melancholy elements and always an undercurrent of eroticism: Borghesia ‘Clones’
borghesiaebm.bandcamp.com/album/clones
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Silicon Valley meets West Hollywood in HARD DISK DRIVE the story of a computer wizard who invents a program that does everything but jack you off. Once you push the “enter” key, you are whisked away to a fantasyland of hot, hard action. Soundtrack by Spider Taylor out Jan 9 spidertaylor.bandcamp.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Looking back at our releases of 2025 with a huge smile and lots of gratitude. Thank you for all the support and extra love to our graphic designers Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh and Gwenael Rattke who provided a feast for your eyes. Excited for what next year will bring, you should be too!
December 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Warehouse find! Instant Music, the German response to Young Marble Giants?
Minimalists to the core. Incendiary EP, reissue originally released in 1981. Neue Deutsche Welle, mix Kraftwerk, Krautrock and some Velvet Underground www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/...
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
our retail shop is open today Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm. 🛍️
Should we make more of these rhinestone Patrick Cowley shirts?! 💎
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Christmas 1976, San Francisco 🎄Jorge Socarrás and Patrick Cowley.
Between 1975 and 1977 they recorded an album’s worth of material called “Catholic” which stayed in the vaults until a CD release in 2009 and vinyl in 2018.
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wild Slugs United 🐌 by C.L.A.W.S. featuring the no wave-esque bass clarinet blasts by Paul Costuros (Total Shutdown, Death Sentence: Panda!)
Sludgy trippy vibes for the chug folder 📂
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
💳 Dark Entires gift cards available in store and online: tinyurl.com/dark-entries
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Originally only released on tape in 1986 - now finally available on vinyl
Vox Populi! Sucre De Pasteque is maybe our favorite release by them Ethno Industrial?! Totally unique and one of a kind!! - vox-populi.bandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Enter a lushly erotic dream world: “Inner Grace” by Bézier. An ambient epic off the album Decompose.
🎥: Pink Narcissus by James Bidgood, a cornerstone of queer visual aesthetic whose influence can still be felt over 50 years since its original release. bezier.bandcamp.com/album/decompose
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Remembering Sylvester (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988) who died 37 years ago today in San Francisco of complications
from with AIDS. He was 42.
Known as the “Queen of Disco”, Sylvester propelled himself to fame during the disco craze with his gospel-style singing and nightclub routines.
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Filmed in Chicago during International Mister Leather 1997, Fallen Angel captures the intensity of men who live their lives in leather, with an award winning soundtrack by Brandy Dalton of Drance. In the clip the tabla-laced trance of “FA2” takes listeners on a journey through hedonistic recesses.
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Like an early French film soundtrack with melodramatic overtones, lilting guitars & ample use of echo smack of Durutti Column.
Deux Filles’ albums: Silence & Wisdom (1982) and Double Happiness (1983) are back in print. darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deux-f...
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“But it only somehow makes sense that a singer named after a biblical resurrection rises to new heights after her death in 2022… the re-release of the single by Dark Entries alone serves as the most beautiful possible tribute to her legacy. Goodbye, Q Lazzarus.” - Kristoffer Cornils HHV
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Remembering Q Lazzarus who would have been 65 on December 12. We urge everyone to watch the documentary on Q by Eva Aridjis Fuentes and listen to the soundtrack on @sacredbones.bsky.social with dozens of unreleased songs. 🕊️
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
High Tech is a 1986 documentary-style feature from Al Parker's Surge Studios. The film offers an incredible demonstration of vacuum pumps and was created during a time when safe sex and toys were the rage due to AIDS. Original music by Spider Taylor spidertaylor.bandcamp.com/album/surge-studio-music
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
reflecting on all 2025 Dark Entries releases today on NTS 12pm PST featuring songs by Q Lazzarus, Coatshek, Corps Diplomatique, Brown Angel, Testpattern, Patrick Cowley, @robothustle and more 📻 nts.live
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Legendary french poets of industrial noise, Vox Populi! ‘Sucre De Pastèque’ wraps heads in a labyrinth of tape loops & spuming electro-acoustic wizardry… classified somewhere between lo-fi concrète, psych-folk, avant-ambient & proto-cyborganic machine music. @boomkat.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I love Dark Entries Records and within this love, there’s extra special love for the beautiful work they do to keep the music of Patrick Cowley alive. Hard Ware is another superbly curated chapter in their indispensable series documenting Cowley’s unparalleled universe @thehomecurrent.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
slinging books, shirts, records and more at The Lab today 12-7pm 📚
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Out today: our reissue of Sucre De Pastèque by Vox Populi! originally released on cassette in 1986. Psychedelic Exotic Mind Elevating Sound Forms by legendary French industrial pioneers. They explored fusing ethnic sounds with electronic music. vox-populi.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
celebrate 3 years of Dark Entires Records physical location in San Francisco this Sunday Dec 7 from 5-9pm with music by C.L.A.W.S. Solar, Bergsonist, G.ZIFACK. what a wild ride it’s been and we’re grateful for all the support 💗
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Testpattern’s “APRES-MIDI” (1982) is the super legendary album that embodies the concept of “techno pop”, But Masao Hiruma secretly recorded 17 songs in 1984 with French-American model/vocalist Evelyne Bennu has been unearthed and released after 41 years!
www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/...
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
GOODBYE HORSES: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS by Eva Aridjis Fuentes is streaming on the Criterion Channel! Narrated through Q’s own words, lyrics, and music reveals the untold story of an exceptionally talented but unjustly overlooked musician, paving the way for a new appreciation of her artistry
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
On this World AIDS Day, we pay tribute to Surge Studio, the duo of Al Parker and Steve Scott who produced many films with soundtracks we are releasing for the first time. Spider Taylor ‘Surge Studio Music’: 1985-86 VHS-era erotica synth chuggers. spidertaylor.bandcamp.com/album/surge-studio-music
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM