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Saturday April 24th, 2021 with Elorious Cain
GIORGIO (PART 3) (repeat broadcast)* September 1st, 2018
On Friday September 21, 2018 GIORGIO MORODER appeared at the Neon disco in Montreal!
To celebrate that important event we presented a three part series spotlighting the music and productions of GIORGIO.
We continue with the final episode of that series concluding with that eternal electronic sound that GIORGIO is so incredibly famous and loved for. We have included recordings that changed the very nature of popular music forever. We have also included music from some of the various soundtracks he provided music for and some of his productions with rock and new wave artists in the 1980's.
| GIORGIO BY MORODER DAFT PUNK (featuring GIORGIO) - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES (2LP) - COLUMBIA |
| BRING THE PROD GIORGIO MORODER - CAT PEOPLE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) LP - BACKSTREET |
| GOOD OLD GERMANY EINZELGANGER - EINZELGANGER (LP) - OASIS |
| IVORY TOWER GIORGIO MORODER - THE NEVERENDING STORY (LP) - EMI AMERICA |
| NEVER ENDING STORY (CLUB MIX) LIMAHL - 12" - EMI AMERICA |
| The single most exciting event in the history of ELECTRONIC DISCO occurred in 1977 when the production team of GIORGIO MORODER & PETE BELLOTTE released "I Feel Love" by DONNA SUMMER. It, more than any other recording showed why EURODISCO is one of the most powerful and influential GENRES OF DISCO of all time'. Sure, there were plenty of pure electronic recordings that were very popular before it. But they were usually either intellectual studies or superficial and silly musical knickknacks like the various versions of "Pop Corn". "I Feel Love" was instantly outrageously popular. It spread like wild fire around the planet. For the very first time billions were experiencing a tangible emotional reaction to a stunning simple love song that just happened to be completely electronic. Electronic music had never before reached so many people and captured their imaginations or tugged at their heart strings. It enabled thousands of future electronic recordings to matter. After "I Feel Love" electronic music suddenly became acceptable and palatable, even in the most commercial environments. "I Feel Love" had changed the very nature of popular music forever.
In 1979 there was a crazy remix being circulated out of New York City that was available either as a bootleg single sided white label 12" or on 'reel to reel' tapes. It was an astronomical remix of that very important "I Feel Love" song by DONNA SUMMER which was the work of a young producer called PATRICK COWLEY. The exclusive DISCONET remix service offered that remix in 1980 to limited audience of subscribers only. In 1982 the remaining Casablanca label in Britain finally publicly released it! What the late PATRICK COWLEY did to the original ground breaking 'circular structure' was to add a complementary barrage of raw ELECTRONIC patterns that was psychedelic and at times blaring and demanding. It is considered by many sources to be the single best remix ever done in the history of disco. In fact the actual effects of this remix are still being felt. Although it is all ELECTRONIC, it crawls into your mind like a living siren! |
| I FEEL LOVE (MEGA MIX) DONNA SUMMER - 12" - CASABLANCA |
| BEAT THE CLOCK SPARKS - 12" - ELEKTRA |
| LOVE NOW, HURT LATER GIORGIO and CHRIS - LOVE'S IN YOU, LOVE'S IN ME (LP) - CASABLANCA |
| A WHITER SHADE OF PALE MUNICH MACHINE introducing CHRIS BENNETT - A WHITER SHADE OF PALE (LP) - CASABLANCA |
| TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE SPARKS - 12" - ELEKTRA |
| "Chase" is one of two instrumentals by GIORGIO MORODER from 1978 that caught many millions of imaginations. The other being "Evolution" from his Music From "Battlestar Galactica" And Other Original Compositions (LP) which we featured on last week's show. Still sampled and programmed by some deejays today, "Chase" is an engaging demonstration of solitude of motion that dancers simply got lost in. |
| CHASE GIORGIO MORODER - 12" - CASABLANCA |
| FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LOVE GIORGIO - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (LP) - CASABLANCA |
| LOST ANGELAS GIORGIO - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (LP) - CASABLANCA |
| UTOPIA - ME GIORGIO GIORGIO - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (LP) - CASABLANCA |
| LOVE KILLS (EXTENDED REMIX) FREDDIE MERCURY - 12" - CBS |
| NOW I NEED YOU DONNA SUMMER - ONCE UPON A TIME (2LP) - CASABLANCA |
| WORKING THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT DONNA SUMMER - ONCE UPON A TIME (2LP) - CASABLANCA |
| NO. 1 SONG IN HEAVEN SPARKS - NO. 1 IN HEAVEN (LP) - VIRGIN |
| CALL ME (THEME FROM AMERICAN GIGOLO) GIORGIO MORODER (featuring BLONDIE) - AMERICAN GIGOLO (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECORDING) LP - POLYDOR |
| ROCKIT MISS U.S.A. SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK - FLAUNT IT (LP) - PARLOPHONE |
| MY OTHER VOICE SPARKS - NO. 1 IN HEAVEN (LP) - VIRGIN |
| 74 IS THE NEW 24 (LIFELIKE & KRIS MENACE REMIX) GIORGIO MORODER - Déjà VU (2LP) - RCA |
| 74 IS THE NEW 24 GIORGIO MORODER - Déjà VU (2LP) - RCA |
| CARRY ON GIORGIO MORODER featuring DONNA SUMMER - 12" - VIRGIN |
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2:41 PM, April 23rd, 2021