Line #29 Music/GiorgioMoroder


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2	[[caption-width-right:252:[-[[PornStache Ron Jeremy]] meets Series/MaxHeadroom-].]]
3	->''We'll always be together, together in Electric Dreams...''
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5	Giovanni [[MiddleNameBasis Giorgio]] Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, and the main responsible for giving {{Disco}} a more synthesized and electronic sound and helping pushing forward ElectronicMusic.
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7	He began his career in the mid-60's, releasing [[MiddleNameBasis under the name Giorgio]] ''very cheesy'' singles, most of them becoming unsuccessful (and, fortunately, largely forgotten). In TheSeventies, he started to become more successful, especially after Chicory Tip's hit "Son of My Father". He also founded Musicland Studios (in the late-60's), which held recording sessions by people like Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Queen}} and Music/EltonJohn.
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9	His big breakthrough, however, came through two ways: one, through the hiring of Music/DonnaSummer to Casablanca Records (and his own subsidiary, Oasis Records), by producing a lot of her music till the 80's. The other way was through an increased use of synthesizers and computer programming. He produced the majority of Donna's hits, including [[TheImmodestOrgasm "Love To Love You Baby"]] and the ground-breaking "I Feel Love". He also helped [[TropeMaker set the template]] for longer DJ sets (which became important from HouseMusic to {{Techno}} and many other forms of ElectronicMusic) with his album ''From Here to Eternity''.
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11	He also produced two albums for Music/{{Sparks}}, as well as scores and soundtracks for various movies and artists, including ''Film/MidnightExpress'' (which became the first all-electronic score to win an Academy Award), ''Film/AmericanGigolo'', ''Film/CatPeople'' (the song of the same name became one of Music/DavidBowie's more popular songs, albeit with a poppier version on Bowie's ''Let's Dance'' album), or ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''. He also helped restore (and wrote a new soundtrack for) ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. Another song which was produced by Giorgio (as well as part of the soundtrack) was the ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' theme (sung by Limahl).
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13	He also collaborated with Philip Oakey (the lead vocalist of Music/TheHumanLeague, who sings the above quote in ''Film/ElectricDreams''), Japan, Music/NinaHagen, [[{{Music/Queen}} Freddie Mercury]], Music/JanetJackson, Music/SigueSigueSputnik and Music/DaftPunk.
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15	[[JustForFun/IReadThatAs Do not confuse his last name with]] {{Mordor}}. Or Marauder.
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18	!! Tropes of Giorgio:
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20	* BadassBoast: "My name is Giovanni Giorgio... but everybody calls me, ''[[MiddleNameBasis Giorgio]]''."
21	** Say it with us now: ''74 is the new 24...''
22	* CoverVersion: "Knights In White Satin" (Music/TheMoodyBlues), which goes into EpicRocking territory (a long version split in three continuous parts that occupies the A-side of the album with the same name).
23	* {{Disco}}: He was one of the leading disco producers in the 1970s, in both its orchestral and electronic variants (in the latter of which he was a TropeCodifier).
24	* ElectronicMusic: He used synthesizers in his bubblegum pop days when he only went by Giorgio, but starting with "I Feel Love", he went all-out.
25	* EpicRocking: Many of the albums he produced in the Munich disco days had one side taken up with a single long song, e.g. Music/DonnaSummer's ''Love To Love You Baby'' (title track, 16:48), and ''A Love Trilogy'' ("Try Me, I Know We Can Make It", 17:57), Munich Machine's self-titled LP ("Get On The Funk Train", 15:45), and Moroder's own ''Battlestar Galactica'' ("Evolution", 15:18). Even where he didn't do this, one side would often effectively be a long medley with each track FadingIntoTheNextSong, such as the A-side of Giorgio's ''Knights In White Satin'' or Donna Summer's ''I Remember Yesterday'', or the B-side of Munich Machine's self-titled album.
26	* ForeignReScore: For the US release of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', the classical orchestra soundtrack of Music/KlausDoldinger was replaced in large parts by a synthesizer-based soundtrack by Moroder, much to the chagrin of director Creator/WolfgangPetersen.
27	* FunWithHomophones: The title track of ''Knights in White Satin'' is a cover of the song originally known as "Nights in White Satin"; the silent "K" is Moroder's addition.
28	* IntercourseWithYou: "I Wanna Funk With You Tonite" is hardly subtle, especially considering the moaning in the background.
29	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: His theme for ''Film/{{TheNeverEndingStory}}'' fades in at the beginning and out at the end. It doesn't have a proper start or end because it's just part of... a never-ending story.
30	* LoveTheme: As a Hollywood composer, he's written quite a number of these, most famously the enormous hit "Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from ''Film/TopGun'')". His "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Love Theme from]] ''Film/{{Flashdance}}''" is also well regarded.
31	* {{Medley}}: He did this a few times, including the B side of the first Munich Machine album (basically an instrumental medley of other Moroder hits they'd played on), the A side of ''Battlestar Galactica'' (disco-fied versions of incidental music from the TV series) and the whole of ''Forever Dancing'' (a mixture of remakes of his own greatest hits and other disco classics). The single release of "From Here To Eternity" was actually a medley of "From Here To Eternity" and "Utopia - Me Giorgio".
32	* NewSoundAlbum: His early albums were schlager and bubblegum, but ''Knights in White Satin'' was his first disco album (under his own name, that is; he'd already written and produced disco albums for Music/DonnaSummer and Roberta Kelly) and "From Here To Eternity" was the biggest change, going all-electronic for the first time.
33	* PopStarComposer: He's done a lot of work in this vein. Among his more notable efforts, he composed the soundtrack for ''Film/MidnightExpress'' (the first electronic score to win an Oscar), ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'' (winning his second Oscar for the title song), ''[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Scarface]]'', ''Film/TopGun'' ("Take My Breath Away" was another Oscar winner) and the 1984 restoration of ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' as well as significant contributions to soundtracks such as ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', ''Film/SupermanIII'' and ''Film/ElectricDreams''.
34	* PornStache: Along with a pair of CoolShades, his mustache became one of his signature elements. The Novation Morodernova, a special version of the Mininova virtual-analog synthesizer pre-loaded with all kinds of typical Moroder sounds, is covered in outlines of shades and staches. And after Music/DaftPunk [[CareerResurrection brought him back into the limelight]], he even regrew his trademark stache.
35	* RecordProducer: Legendary Electronic, Pop and Disco producer. Music/DonnaSummer and Music/{{Sparks}} are among his most significant production credits.
36	** In an interesting twist, he had his own album ''[=E=MC2=]'' mostly produced by his then-protégé Harold Faltermeyer ("with a little help from Giorgio").
37	* SelfReferentialTrackPlacement: On the ''Knights In White Satin'' album, the song "In The Middle of the Night" appears between the two halves of the title track.
38	* SpokenWordInMusic:
39	** He lists the credits of the album ''[=E=MC2=]'' at the end of the song with the same name, concluding with a [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein "Thank you, Albert"]].
40	** He does this in the Music/DaftPunk track "Giorgio By Moroder".

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