Giorgio Moroder

...Decent songs. Mostly they let the monotonous thump-thump and bleep-bloop of their machines do the work. "Giorgio Moroder is spinning in his grave - if he's even dead," quips the wag next to me (and for the record, Mr. Moroder is, as of this...

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...album of anemic power ballads arrived with little fanfare. From that glammed-up cover that makes Lady Gaga seem tame to the blaring Giorgio Moroder-style production, everything about Lambert's "For Your Entertainment" feels huge. It's an album...

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...description of Arbez's latest album, Flashmob, which channels the electro-prog wizardry of Jean Michel Jarre, the cool camp of Giorgio Moroder and the digital funk of Daft Punk, and sets them against a wall of seriously sweaty techno.

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...they're trying to find the after-party. Meanwhile, the electro symphony on the soundtrack frequently whispers a disco promise: "Giorgio Moroder is coming. '' It's actually a collection of previously released songs by Brian Eno, Queens of...

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...suite using the dubious metaphor of a cake being left out in the rain reached No4 in 1968. Donna Summer: I Feel Love (1977) Giorgio Moroder's innovative production for Donna resulted in a disco record quite unlike any other; it raced to...

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...locks, heralding a European future for pop, a decisive break with America and rock'n'roll. Perhaps even more of a portent here was Giorgio Moroder's Eurodisco, whose clockwork-precise sequencers and icily erotic electronics forged the...

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...me much later that I nicked it from a song he wrote with John Lennon, which is probably true. I had originally approached Giorgio Moroder (who had done the score of Midnight Express) to do the music, but he was busy on a new Donna Summer...

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...career high point was winning an Oscar for co-writing Flashdance…What a Feeling, the theme song for 1983's Flashdance. "I thanked Giorgio Moroder and my parents, who were in the audience. It was my one shot to thank them in front of the...

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...from the general perky tone with a touch of moody mystery. The Human League's Phil Oakey guested on the record, and she name-checks Giorgio Moroder too. Her backing singers' swooping harmonies carry most of the vocal load, as her own voice...

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...the damp retro-funk squib of his last album and returns with 12 glittering examples of electronic club-pop. Part pumped-up Giorgio Moroder disco and part glacial synthesizers, it recalls Stallings' 2001 classic 'Kittenz And The Glitz' but...

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