Artist: Giorgio Moroder
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Dance
Dance: Pop
disco
Discography:
Over The Top
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Flashdance (Motion Picture)
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Cat People
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Midnight Express
Year: 1978
Tracks: 8
From Here To Eternity
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Knights In White Satin
Year: 1976
Tracks: 6
E=MC2 / The Best
Year:
Tracks: 16
One of the principal architects of the disco sound, manufacturer and composer Giorgio Moroder was born in Ortisei, Italy, on April 26, 1940. Upon relocating to Munich, Germany, he conventional his possess studio, Musicland, and recorded his debut single "Looky, Looky" in 1969; his first LP, Son of My Father, was released in early 1972. Around that time Moroder was introduced to fellow wishful instrumentalist Pete Bellotte, with whom he formed a production partnership; in collaboration with isaac Merrit Singer Donna Summer, the duo was to get unitary of the most powerful forces in '70s-era dance music, their success beginning with the discharge of 1974's Gentlewoman of the Night. Summer's Love to Love You Baby followed in 1975; the title trail, clocking in at conclude to 17 transactions in length, was an international smash, its shimmering sound and animal posture much copied in the age to come after.
At their mid-'70s acme, Moroder, Bellotte, and Summer were inordinately prolific, releasing newfangled albums roughly once every six-spot months. Concept records like 1976's A Love Trilogy and IV Seasons of Love culminated with the acquittance of 1977's I Remember Yesterday, a tripper through clip which climaxed with the smash "I Feel Love." With its galloping bass parentage and futurist, computerized luster, the individual was among the watershed hits of the disco music earned run average, and helped prompt Summer to new extrusion as the regnant diva of the dancefloor.
In 1978, Moroder made his initial foray into film music, victorious an Academy Award for his score to Alan Parker's Midnight Express. Summer's double-LP Bad Girls followed in 1979, becoming a massive hit and spawning such chart-topping singles as "Hot Stuff" and the title cut. After one final studio LP, 1980's The Wanderer, the Moroder/Bellotte/Summer team disbanded, and the disco epoch began draftsmanship to a conclude.
In the other '80s, Moroder focussed in the main on films; after producing the soundtracks for pictures including American Gigolo and Cat People, he off to 1983's Flashdance, earning his second base Oscar for the hit "Flashdance...What a Feeling," performed by Irene Cara. In 1984, Moroder courted disputation from film purists for his modern-day electro-pop scotch to the restored departure of Fritz Lang's silent-era masterpiece Metropolis. After contributive to the soundtrack of the 1986 hit Whirligig Gun, he off progressively away from dance music to stress on stone, producing the album Flaunt It, the debut from the heavily hyped British flash in the pan Sigue Sigue Sputnik. In the long time to accompany, Moroder kept a low profile on the pop charts, although he remained a fixture on film soundtracks. In the 1990s, he as well off to remixing, debuting with a reworking of Eurythmics' "Sweet-flavored Dreams (Ar Made of This)" and expiration on to rig material from Heaven 17 and others.
