Back to the Future
If you cast your mind all the way back to last week... to a distant time when Australia still held The Ashes (!)... you may recall me posting a fantastic track by Sebastien Tellier. Well the cover of that record sent me straight into the depths of my vinyl until I emerged clutching this fantastic album by Giorgio Moroder - who is clearly a style icon for Monsieur Tellier. And why not. Surely this is the coolest man alive? I covet that 'tasch above all others. (Mind you, thinking about it I don't covet any others...)
He looks even more badass on the back:
Although Moroder is most famous for his Donna Summer productions (principally 'I Feel Love' of course), along with 'Midnight Express' theme 'The Chase', and iconic '80s classic 'Together in Electric Dreams' (one of my all time favourite records!), this 1978 album 'From Here to Eternity' stands tall next to all these.
Listening to this, and hearing the likes of Derrick May dropping 'I Feel Love' into his techno sets, it's amazing that Moroder isn't given more credit as an influence on house and techno. Like other more far out disco productions of the time like Black Devil's 'Disco Club', this is futuristic electronic dance music that hasn't dated in the slightest. To be honest it still sounds more futuristic than almost anything produced today...
When robots dance, they'll dance to Moroder.
This must surely also have been the first 'DJ Mix'? The 5 tracks on side 1 are seamlessly segued into a euphoria enducing whole.
'Lost Angeles' and 'Utopia' are paricularly great tracks.. but side 1 as a whole is glorious - and is presented to you here in its magnificent ripped-from-vinyl-15-minute-entirety.
GIORGIO MORODER - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (SIDE 1) [18MB]
1: From Here to Eternity
2. Faster Than The Speed Of Love
3. Lost Angeles
4. Utopia Me Giorgio
5. From Here To Eternity (Reprise)
He looks even more badass on the back:
Although Moroder is most famous for his Donna Summer productions (principally 'I Feel Love' of course), along with 'Midnight Express' theme 'The Chase', and iconic '80s classic 'Together in Electric Dreams' (one of my all time favourite records!), this 1978 album 'From Here to Eternity' stands tall next to all these.
Listening to this, and hearing the likes of Derrick May dropping 'I Feel Love' into his techno sets, it's amazing that Moroder isn't given more credit as an influence on house and techno. Like other more far out disco productions of the time like Black Devil's 'Disco Club', this is futuristic electronic dance music that hasn't dated in the slightest. To be honest it still sounds more futuristic than almost anything produced today...
When robots dance, they'll dance to Moroder.
This must surely also have been the first 'DJ Mix'? The 5 tracks on side 1 are seamlessly segued into a euphoria enducing whole.
'Lost Angeles' and 'Utopia' are paricularly great tracks.. but side 1 as a whole is glorious - and is presented to you here in its magnificent ripped-from-vinyl-15-minute-entirety.
GIORGIO MORODER - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (SIDE 1) [18MB]
1: From Here to Eternity
2. Faster Than The Speed Of Love
3. Lost Angeles
4. Utopia Me Giorgio
5. From Here To Eternity (Reprise)
posted by headphonesex @ 11:23 PM
