Hello! After a long non-intended silence, I think the time has come to give my sup­port for Kyny­Nasty.

So, here we go…

One of the great leg­ends, Han­sjörg “Gior­gio” Moroder (born on April 26, 1940 in Orti­sei, Italy) is also one of my per­sonal favourites.

The Ital­ian record pro­ducer, song­writer and per­former is a sig­nif­i­cant fig­ure in the var­i­ous gen­res of music.

He is well known to have pro­duced var­i­ous sound­tracks for movies like “Flash­dance”, “The Never End­ing Story”, “Cat Peo­ple” and “Scar­face” (to call a few) and a few tracks for video games like “Grand Theft Auto III” and “Grand Theft Auto: Lib­erty City Sto­ries”.

Moroder also wrote the offi­cial theme song “Reach Out” for the 1984 Los Ange­les Olympics, “Hand in Hand” for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and “Un’estate Ital­iana” for the 1990 Foot­ball World Cup.

In addi­tion to his own releases, Moroder has also worked with a huge range of artists. Here is a par­tial list of collaborations:

Andy Lau

Maria Con­chita Alonso

Edoardo Ben­nato

Blondie

David Bowie

Irene Cara

Cheap Trick

Cher

Joe “Bean” Esposito

Sammy Hagar

Nina Hagen

Michael Holm

Elton John

Helen St. John

Janet Jack­son

Japan

Madleen Kane

Chaka Khan

Kenny Log­gins

KMFDM

Amanda Lear

Limahl

Joe Dolan

Miami Sound Machine

Fred­die Mercury

Gianna Nan­nini

Gra­ham Nash

Olivia Newton-John

Philip Oakey

Psy­chot­ica

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Sparks

Bar­bra Streisand

Falco

The Sylvers

Donna Sum­mer

Bon­nie Tyler

The Three Degrees

Cameo

Sab­rina Salerno

Almost com­plete (but good) discog­ra­phy can be found here.

Finally, I would like to offer some tracks of my per­sonal choice for you to down­load. Both taken from the same leg­endary Gior­gio Moroder album: Einzel­gänger — Einzel­gänger LP.

Einzel­gänger: Basslich | OGG | MP3 |

Einzel­gänger: Good Old Ger­many | MP3 |

This album is full of exper­i­men­tal “pre-disco” mate­r­ial that par­tially sounds a lot like Jean-Michel Jarre’s early works. It is also inter­est­ing to real­ize what Moroder has been able to com­pose and pro­duce with his machines dur­ing the sev­en­ties. Highly rec­om­mended for the expe­ri­ence of alter­na­tive Gior­gio Moroder!

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