Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. He produced some Donna Summer’s disco hits, including “I Feel Love” and also worked with The Three Degrees, Sparks, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Debbie Harry and France Joli, Phil Oakey (The Human League), Harold Faltermeyer.
He created a lot of soundtracks for popular movies like Midnight Express, Top Gun, (remember the Berlin classic, “Take My Breath Away”), American Gigolo, Flashdance, The NeverEnding Story, Thief of Hearts, Electric Dreams and Scarface.
- “The Chase” (OST of Midnight Express)
- Full Intention - It’s set to groove
- “What a Night”
- Full Intention - The Green EP (Just a groove) - via discomusic.com
- “Tears” (as Children of the Mission)
- DJ Shadow - Organ Donor
- “E=MC2″
- J Dilla - E=MC2 (Ft. Common)
- Scarface (Push it to the Limit) - (OST of Scarface)
- Rick Ross - Push It (via allhiphop)
E=mc²!!
Giorgio did it again! And Dilla took it to that other level! It is what it is. Ill!
Can’t forget the best Giorgio sample ever…Outkast sampled the OST of Midnight Express (Theme) for “Return of the G.”