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June 19, 2009

Giorgio Moroder: Creating Musical Magic From Thin Air and Solid State Electronics

Filed under: Audio and Video — Laura Moncur @ 5:00 am

Check out this awesome video of Giorgio Moroder showing off his electronic music gadgets, including a vocoder, the predecessor of the auto-tune.

Dance Music God, Giorgio Moroder, is known to you. You’ve heard his music no matter who you are. It might just be that your favorite artist sampled his work for their song, or maybe you heard a movie score written by him. For me, “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer was the first song that remember hearing by Giorgio Moroder. You can find out more about him here:

I love to look at the toys that Giorgio Moroder used to make his music. By today’s standards, they are brutish and rudimentary, but he used them to make awesome dance beats!

Via: Discopop Directory – “If there’s a limit to computerised electronic music, he hasn’t found it yet.”

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