Giorgio Moroder is fucking amazing. While Calvin Harris record “I Created Disco” is a great piece of disco-electro-pop it’s title might as well be a quote from Giorgio with proper attribution.
From Music Thing’s description of “how Giorgio Moroder invented the holy trinity of dance music:
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1. In 1975, Moroder’s label boss, Neil Bogart, played a copy of ‘Love to Love You Baby’ at a party at his house. The crowd demanded to hear it four times in a row, so he called Giorgio at 3am and ordered a 20 minute long version. The extended remix was born
2. That track, and more obviously ‘I Feel Love’, had a 4/4 kick drum, from a tape loop of a real drummer. The rhythm was much simpler than funk or disco, so white people (and even German/Italians with moustaches) could dance to it. Four-to-the-floor was born
3. “I Feel Love” was entirely electronic, and it was a 125bpm club record with a black woman singing over the top. House music was born (sort of)”
Aside from being one of the fathers of disco and house music Giorgio was also heavily involved in writing and producing music throughout the 70′s and 80′s including for some major motion pictures. Apart from being behind Donna Summers early releases he was also responsible for scoring Flashdance, Scarface, Superman III and co-scoring The Never Ending Story. He also wrote two of the most recognisable movie songs of all time in Danger Zone and Take My Breath away for Top Gun with the latter winning him an Oscar for best original song.
In later years Giorgio has focused on original art and film with limited success as well as building his own car, a 16 cylinder supercar, the Cizetta Moroder. Unfortunately for us only limited numbers of the car were produced before production ceased in the late 80′s.
There are so many amazing facts about the work of Giorgio that are far too numerous to list here. But check out his official website here or his wikipedia entry. And enjoy these tracks from the man behind the moustache, Giorgio Moroder. He invented disco.
children-of-the-mission-giorgio-moroder-tears.mp3 [sampled by DJ Shadow for "Organ Donor"
Kenny Loggins - Dangerzone.mp3 [from Top Gun, sung to me by a waiter at Cookie in Melbourne on my 21st birthday]
02_-_giorgio_moroder_-_i_wanna_rock_you.mp3
xox
nek
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if you played vinyl, ned, you could borrow my moroder records.
haha that’s my friends dad
Einzelganger, datant de 1975, sortie sur le label OASIS est en fait son premier album véritablement electronique.
a posséder.
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