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Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder grew up in Urtijëi, a small town in the mountains of northern Italy, and went on to build the sound of electronic dance music almost single-handedly. His productions with Donna Summer, above all 1977's "I Feel Love," replaced the disco band with pulsing synthesizers and pointed straight toward house, techno, and synth-pop, and his film work brought him Oscars for the Midnight Express score and the songs "Flashdance... What a Feeling" and "Take My Breath Away." He also wrote or produced Blondie's "Call Me," Berlin's "Take My Breath Away," and enough club staples that Daft Punk later put him on their own record to tell his story.
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From Here to Eternity (1977). It captures Moroder at the moment his synthesizer disco fully arrived, the same year as "I Feel Love." The title track, "Utopia - Me Giorgio," and "Faster Than the Speed of Love" are all built on that driving, sequenced pulse he made his own.
Biography
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo moˈrɔːder]; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers had a significant influence on several music genres such as hi-NRG, Italo disco, synth-pop, new wave, house, and techno music.
While in Munich in the 1970s, Moroder started Oasis Records, later a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many artists including the Rolling Stones, Donna Summer, Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Deborah Harry, Queen, and Elton John. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the mid-to-late 1970s disco era, including "Love to Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "On the Radio". During this period, he also released many albums, including the synthesizer-driven From Here to Eternity (1977) and E=MC2 (1979).
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2025Last Night - (Andrew Becks Remixes)EP
- 2025Extended Versions 2025EP
- 2015Déjà-VuAlbum
- 1992Forever DancingAlbum
- 1990To Be Number OneAlbum
- 1985Philip Oakey & Giorgio MoroderAlbum
- 1985InnovisionsAlbum
- 1983Solitary MenAlbum
- 1979E=MC²Album
- 1978Music From "Battlestar Galactica"Album
- 1978Love’s in You, Love’s in MeAlbum
- 1977From Here to EternityAlbum
- 1976Knights in White SatinAlbum
- 1973Giorgio's MusicAlbum
- 1972Son of My FatherAlbum
- 1970GiorgioAlbum
- 1969That’s Bubble Gum — That’s GiorgioAlbum
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