Giorgio Moroder - Italo Disco?

If you can find the right song, I say go for it. You've pretty much stated the case.

"The Chase".

These records are more than just Italo-Disco to me, but they can certainly fit in on an Italo-Disco comp just as well.

Have finished four CDs so far, and it seems there will be two more until I am in late 1987 and Italo Disco (at least at its artistic height) is more or less dead save for instrumental acts such as K.O.T.O and Laserdance.

And I agree that Italo disco may not only be from Italy. So far I have included tracks by acts such as Sparks, Flirts and Fancy, and it seems that there will be contributions from Scandinavian acts such as Laban and Paul Rein in #5 (possibly Avalanche too, if I manage to find "Wheel Of Fortune" on DC).

May post the tracklisting of the CDs when I am finished.

CD 1:
1. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
2. One For You, One For Me – La Bionda
3. Number One Song In Heaven – Sparks
4. The Chase – Giorgio Moroder
5. Sunset People – Donna Summer
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover – La Bionda
7. Masterpiece – Gazebo
8. You Are Danger – Gary Low
9. The Garden – Lectric Workers
10. Passion – The Flirts
11. Take a Chance – Mr. Flagio
12. Penguins Invasion – Scotch
13. Lunatic – Gazebo
14. Jukebox – The Flirts

CD 2:
1. Pulstar – Hipnosis
2. I Want You – Gary Low
3. Chinese Revenge – K.O.T.O
4. Another Life – Kano
5. Do It Again/Billie Jean – Clubhouse
6. Somebody – Video
7. I Like Chopin – Gazebo
8. Droid – Mito
9. Dolce Vita – Ryan Paris
10. Happy Children – P.Lion
11. Vamos a La Playa – Righeira
12. Happy Station – Fun Fun
13. Voices In The Dark – Mike Cannon
14. Hypnotic Tango – My Mine
15. The Night – Valerie Dore

CD 3:
1. Polaris – Cyber People
2. Japanese War Game – K.O.T.O.
3. Self Control – Raf
4. Happy Song – Baby’s Gang
5. Slice Me Nice – Fancy
6. Colour My Love – Fun Fun
7. Tonight – Ken Laszlo
8. Get Closer – Valerie Dore
9. Chinese Eyes – Fancy
10. People From Ibiza – Sandy Marton
11. Disco Band – Scotch
12. Tora Tora Tora – Numero Uno
13. How Old Are You – Miko Mission
14. Lady Fantasy – Max Him
15. Hey Hey Guy – Ken Laszlo
16. Don’t Cry Tonight – Savage

CD 4:
1. Talking To The Night – Brian Ice
2. Challenger – Baby’s Gang
3. Comanchero – Raggio Di Luna
4. Take Me Up – Scotch
5. L.A.D.Y. O – Fancy
6. Future Brain – Den Harrow
7. Around My Dream – Silver Pozolli
8. Void Vision – Cyber People
9. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
10. Power Run – Laserdance
11. The World Is You – Miko Mission
12. Japanese Girl – Max Him
13. Baby Talk – Alisha
14. Bad Boy – Den Harrow
15. Delirio Mind – Scotch
16. The Visitors – K.O.T.O

CD 5:
1. Woody Boogie – Baltimora
2. Chance To Desire – Radiorama
3. Don’t Wake Me Up – J.D. Jaber
4. From You To Me – Silver Pozolli
5. Don’t Cry – Ken Laszlo
6. Caught By Surprise – Laban
7. Charleston – Den Harrow
8. Two For Love – Miko Mission
9. Baila Bolero – Fun Fun
10. Mirage – Scotch
11. Lady O – Paul Rein
12. Vampires – Radiorama
13. Bolero – Fancy
14. Looking For Love – Tom Hooker
15. USSR – Eddy Huntington

CD 6:
1. Easy Lady – Spagna
2. Jabdah – K.O.T.O
3. Catch The Fox – Den Harrow
4. Love In Siberia – Laban
5. I Love My Radio – Taffy
6. Money Runner – Scotch
7. Humanoid Invasion – Laserdance
8. Aliens – Radiorama
9. Chica Boom – Silver Pozolli
10. For Your Love – Albert One
11. Don’t Break My Heart – Den Harrow
12. Boys – Sabrina
13. Call Me – Spagna
14. Popcorn – M&H Band
15. Dragon’s Legend – K.O.T.O
16. Shotgun (Into The Night) – Laserdance

And I think Dan has the main point here. Italo disco was mainly popular here between late 1983 and 1987, with tracks such as "Do It Again/Billie Jean", "Dolce Vita" and "Vamos a La Playa". Those early tracks are interesting influences, but they were never hits, not even in the discos, plus some of them sound more like synthpop to me.

Also, interestingly, some of the biggest hits of all are on the last CD. 86-87 was then Italo really started crossing over from the discos and into the hitlists. By then, the genre was increasingly Americanized through a use of "hard" digital synth sounds and even guitars (Spagna is a very typical example of this), but still, "Boys" was probably the biggest Italo disco hit ever, and "Call Me" and "I Love My Radio" were also both huge hits.

As for the 70s, I checked out a couple of tracks recommended by various sites, and I decided there was too little synth on them for them to be considered Italo disco enough. Even "One For You, One For Me" is a borderline case, I would say.

http://www.cybernetic-broadcasting.net

Most of my Italo education comes from there.

http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk

and he said the pioneering electro dj's in the uk only had interest in or knew about very few italo tracks...Feels Good by Electra, Harry Thurman's Underwater, Dirty Talk etc. I asked him if he knew about those due to their being picked up in NY clubs and he said no, he had a connection in the UK who was filtering the tracks in the same way the DJs in NY and Chicago were.

The other thing to remember is the "hip" version of italo reflects which records were licensed and released in america to the clubs, such as the stuff on Emergency, 25 West etc, Fuzz Dance came out on Sire and Klein + MBO had an LP on Atlantic.

hearing this makes mee feel oh so much like a woman...to get up and dance to this mature voice and of course the beat......wooooooow

heres to silver pozolli...........woooooow

^^

woooooow

Giorgio Moroder, without any doubt, is actually very Italian indeed

When I watched that daft punk interview video I was surprised that he has a german accent and looks really german without the moustache. he even looks vaguely like werner herzog now.

http://vimeo.com/66655751

Lecture: Giorgio Moroder (New York, 2013)
from Red Bull Music Academy

One of the true greats of disco and electronic music at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York.

Although Italian by upbringing, Giorgio Moroder did most of his work in Munich and the influence of Düsseldorf’s Kraftwerk can be heard in his work for Donna Summer, which includes two of the ultimate disco anthems, “I Feel Love” and “Love to Love You Baby.” He was also a supreme composer of soundtracks, scoring an unlikely success with the theme from Midnight Express. His footprints are all over British synth pop as well, a connection made explicit with “Together in Electric Dreams,” a 1984 collab with Philip Oakey that remains Moroder’s biggest chart hit.

^I watched this Saturday afternoon. It's not super packed with insight and the host is sort of annoying, but it's fun to see him forget a few things he'd even recorded when played back to him for his opinion.

“Together in Electric Dreams,” a 1984 collab with Philip Oakey that remains Moroder’s biggest chart hit.

Wait, is this true? Bigger than "I Feel Love" or "Flashdance...What a Feeling" or "Take My Breath Away" or "Call Me"?

Or even "Danger Zone" ffs?

I think they mean it's the biggest released under his name

what a thread. ah ilx

wait so are we officially seeing the rock canonization of giorgio moroder? good for him, not like he needs the paycheck.

i was gonna say re geir's original comments that "love to love you baby" and "i feel love" are the same song, but here i am beimg geir baited in 2013.

so according to that video the scarface theme was inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_w5yNDRJKs

i've always considered him pretty italo disco

that's that shit i don't like

Woah, Geir the Italo Disco King!

When I watched that daft punk interview video I was surprised that he has a german accent and looks really german without the moustache. he even looks vaguely like werner herzog now.

He's from South Tyrol, like Gilbert of Gilbert & George, and, like Gilbert of Gilbert & George, his first language is Ladin rather than Italian or German, but, like Gilbert of Gilbert & George, it's likely he would have more of a German accent than an Italian accent.