Giorgio Moroder - Deja Vu (Megamix)

Via Stereogum:

Next month, the Italo-disco genius Giorgio Moroder will release Déjà Vu, his first album in many years, and he’s found an innovative way to tell us how the album will sound. In a new five-minute video, we hear short clips of every track on the album, set to an effects-heavy video of a couple dancing. It’s not an earthshaking music video or anything, but it’s enough to keep your attention while you absorb the music. And that music sounds good, like top-shelf cheesed-out dance-pop.

Giorgio Moroder & Sia - Deja Vu

Last week we got the audio, here's the production clip. This is the title track from Giorgio Moroder's first album in 30 years, due on June 16th.

Giorgio & Britney Spears- Tom's Diner

Via TIME:

Suzanne Vega’s 1980s classic “Tom’s Diner” — named after the real-life restaurant used in Seinfeld—had a pop-culture resurgence last year when Fall Out Boy sampled it in their song “Centuries.” Now, it’s having another moment thanks to Britney Spears and Giorgio Moroder, the dance-music pioneer who’s recruited pop stars like Sia, Kylie Minogue and Charli XCX for his new album Déjà Vu. Spears’ contributions sound downright robotic thanks to copious auto-tune, but before you wonder why any singer would need digital processing to sing the track’s simple and iconic doo-doo-doo hook, consider this: all that studio magic does, in a way, amplify the themes of voyeurism and alienation that reportedly inspired Vega’s original track.

Giorgio Moroder Featuring Sia - Deja Vu

Stereogum raves:

Italo-disco god Giorgio Moroder is coming back later this year with Déjà Vu, his first new album in forever. It’ll feature things like the Kylie Minogue-collab single “Right Here, Right Now” and Britney Spears covering Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.” The album’s title track hit the internet today, and it’s got Sia tapping into some inner disco queen that I didn’t even know was there. It’s a big, bold, surging song with some truly sweet strings and handclaps on the chorus. Moroder hasn’t changed his late-’70s sound at all, but the rest of the world has come around to it, and that’s a beautiful thing.

Giorgio Moroder Releases New Video With Kylie Minogue: Right Here, Right Now

Two weeks ago we got the audio clip, today comes the production video. Lovely pop disco right out of the late 80s.

Giorgio Moroder Releases New Single With Kylie Minogue: Right Here, Right Now

From their labels:

RCA Records and Sony Music International today announces that the founder of disco and electronic music trailblazer, Giorgio Moroder releases his brand new single “Right Here, Right Now” featuring Kylie Minogue today, January 20th on RCA Records in the United States. (The single will have various release dates worldwide including January 30th in the UK.) The single will be featured on Giorgio Moroder’s upcoming album (title still to be announced) – his first solo album in over 30 years, scheduled for a Spring release -which will also feature a superstar line up of other collaborators including Britney Spears, Sia, Charli XCX, Mikky Ekko, Foxes, Matthew Koma and many more. Over the course of his career, Mr. Moroder has worked with some of the most famous names in music including Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Donna Summer, Cher, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Freddie Mercury, Blondie, and David Bowie.

Available today on iTunes and Google Play.

Giorgio Moroder - 74 Is The New 24

Three-time Academy Award winner and disco legend Giorgio Moroder, 74, today released the first single from his first studio album in 30 years. Via Billboard:

Moroder’s long-awaited forthcoming album will feature collaborations with Britney Spears, Sia, Charli XCX, Kylie Minogue, Mikky Ekko, Foxes, Matthew Koma and others. He has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music International for the release of the set, which will arrive on RCA Records in the United States. "Sony/RCA constitutes one of the most groundbreaking histories in the world,” Moroder said in a statement. “As my new label, I believe my record will live up to their history, but more importantly, pave the way for the future! Sony from here to eternity." To celebrate the announcement of his new album, 74-year-old Moroder released the first music video from the set, appropriately titled “74 Is the New 24."

Moroder: "Dance music doesn’t care where you live. It doesn’t care who your friends are. It doesn’t care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you are 74 or if you are 24 because... 74 is the new 24!" The single is available today on iTunes and is streaming on Spotify. To me, it seems to be just a shorter version of Giorgio's Theme, which was streamed earlier this year and will also be on the new album.

UPDATE: The above-linked Billboard story has been top-linked by closeted homosexual Matt Drudge.

Giorgio Moroder Remixes Gaga/Bennett

Giorgio Moroder - Giorgio's Theme

Via Stereogum:

Every summer, the people at Adult Swim do god’s work by giving us a fuckload of well-curated new tracks for free. This year’s Adult Swim Singles Series is set to feature new tracks from heavy hitters like Future, Deafheaven, and Run The Jewels. And for its first track of the summer, they’ve brought in the resurgent italo-disco genius Giorgio Moroder, a man who has had a more profound effect on popular music than almost anyone currently living. Moroder’s contribution is an eight-minute instrumental called “Giorgio’s Theme,” and it locks beautifully into the sort of percolating synth-groove that he more or less invented.

Seven and half minutes of disco bliss.

Coldplay - Midnight (Moroder Remix)

It's so great to hear the classic Moroder sound. This clip might get yanked as it's from a Coldplay fan channel. The remix went on sale today at iTunes.

Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

This Giorgio Moroder/Chris Cox remix came out in October, but now there's a video. A strange video.

New Giorgio Moroder Remix

Legendary uber-producer Giorgio Moroder has remixed the 2012 debut single from Los Angeles-based indie popsters Haim. The track garnered modest sales and chart action, but Haim's latest single, The Wire, has just gone double-platinum overseas. Hence this reboot.

Swag Tuesday II

Courtesy of Fly Life, today's second Swag Tuesday prize is Love To Love You Donna, the new Donna Summer remix tribute album from Verve Records, which is available today at iTunes and at physical retailers nationwide.

LOVE TO LOVE YOU DONNA, is a brand new remix record celebrating the life and voice of five-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Donna Summer. A dozen highly sought after DJs and remixers have contributed a diverse and creative spin to some of the most beloved tracks in dance and pop music history. The first single is "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)," remixed by Chromeo & Oliver. It will be followed by legendary producer Giorgio Moroder's entirely re-imagined version of "Love to Love You Baby," the classic song he recorded with Donna, released in November of 1975. Love to Love You Donna was produced by Dahlia-Ambach Caplin, the architect of the five-volume Verve Remixed series, and Randall Poster, the legendary producer and music supervisor.

Other famed remixers that contributed to Love To Love You Donna include Frankie Knuckles (listen here), Holy Ghost!, Hot Chip, and Jacques Green. For today's giveaway we have three copies on CD and two on limited-edition vinyl. Enter to win by commenting on this post and please remember to leave an email address in the text of your comment. Entries close at midnight on Thursday, west coast time.

VIDEO: Remixer Afrojack spins his take on I Feel Love. Not one of those kids waving their hands so happily is as old as the original track. It's a good thing.

Another New Donna Summer Remix

Over the weekend the legendary Giorgio Moroder debuted his remix of his own 1975 production, Love To Love You Baby, at the Way Out West festival in Sweden. I presume this will be included on the upcoming Donna Summer remix package from Verve Records. The audio isn't great (lots of crowd noise too) but Moroder has posted the same recording to his Soundcloud page, so we'll have to wait for a better listen.

BROOKLYN: Dance Music Legend Giorgio Moroder Plays First-Ever DJ Set

Three-time Oscar winner and three-time Grammy winner Giorgio Moroder, 73, the man whom many would credit as inventing* electronic dance music, played his first-ever DJ set last night at Brooklyn's Deep Space club.  Moroder has been back in the news recently for his contributions to Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories.  Just a few minutes into the mix, Moroder drops his 1977 classic, Lost Angeles, followed by the title track from the same album, From Here To Eternity.  Later you'll hear some of Moroder's Donna Summer classics and his 1979 smash with Sparks, Beat The Clock. Bliss. And it's killing me that I didn't know about last night. Moroder gets on the microphone at the end of the set and tells a bit of his life story.


*Along with Kraftwerk, in my opinion.

Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Consequence Of Sound reports:

Italian supercomposer Giorgio Moroder’s having quite a ball lately. In addition to being immortalized by Daft Punk on their latest album — in what’s arguably the best track off Random Access Memories — he’s back with his own new music. No, he’s not churning something out for director Brian De Palma; this time, he’s working alongside Google.

“Racer” is the title track to a new game on Google Chrome that’s either about racing or minimalistic ’70s artwork. (Really, we can’t tell.) According to the game’s website, users can line up their phones and/or tablets to create a race track across up to five screens. Sounds groovy, right? You have no idea.

Information about the game is here.

(Via Towleroad)