Posts tagged ‘Giorgio Moroder’

Giorgio Moroder (part 2)

January 21st, 2009

Yeah, more about Gior­gio Moroder.

Part 2 exactly. Check out part 1 here.

First I want to present this funky and ever­last­ing disco track called “Get on the funk train” by Munich Machine to you all. It was made by Moroder and Pete Bel­lotte, who formed the band dur­ing the sev­en­ties (at some point, Gary Unwin was a mem­ber also).

Then some­thing else. A promo video clip…

…taken from a Casablanca Records promo tape.”

The quote is taken from YouTube.

By the way, what the hell is his name? The pre­sen­ter on this video… Jack­ass? Jack Ash? What­ever, even NASA can’t match that!

The next one is called “Machines”.

A clas­sic sci-fi hit movie “Metrop­o­lis” was reis­sued 1984 in colour and also gifted with a brand new sound­track! It included two tracks by Moroder called “Machines” and “The leg­end of Baa­bel” among all the other great tracks by such artists as Fred­die Mer­cury and Bon­nie Tyler. Check it out, and the movie also!

The last one is leg­endary “Tears” also by Moroder him­self. I’m sorry about the qual­ity.

Remem­ber also to visit his MySpace to check out some more info and tunes.

Giorgio Moroder (part 1)

July 9th, 2008

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: Einzel­gängerEinzel­gänger 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!