Patrick Adams, legendary New York disco producer, has died at age 72

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Patrick Adams, a legendary disco and hip-hop producer who left an unmatched legacy on New York City's club culture, died in his sleep on Wednesday morning at age 72.

Patrick Adams rehearses for a presentation of his music during the 2017 Red Bull Music Academy Festival at Harlem's Alhambra Ballroom.Patrick Adams rehearses for a presentation of his music during the 2017 Red Bull Music Academy Festival at Harlem's Alhambra Ballroom.

The list of producers whose music made the leap from the disco heyday of Studio 54 to the golden era of New York rap is very short. But Adams made records that are considered classics in both milieus, and remain DJ set favorites. Adams soon became adept not only on a variety of instruments, but at writing songs, as well as arrangements for horns and strings. And what he did not know, he faked well. His first hit came in 1972, when “Don’t Turn Around,” a song he wrote and produced by the Harlem vocal trio Black Ivory, cracked theFor the rest of the decade Adams alternated between popular productions for major labels — whether crossover disco albums for the likes of Ben E.

When disco’s commercial bubble burst in the early 1980s, Adams retreated. But by the middle of the decade he returned behind the board at Power Play, a Long Island City recording studio that was gaining a reputation for making innovative records in a new style of electronic music called hip-hop.

 

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