listen to Giorgio Moroder's DJ set & a Daft Punk Japanese bonus track
Red Bull Music Academy, who hosts DFA's 12th Anniversary party this weekend, hosted Giorgio Moroder 's 1st-ever live DJ set at Output in Brooklyn the other night.
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Red Bull Music Academy, who hosts DFA's 12th Anniversary party this weekend, hosted Giorgio Moroder 's 1st-ever live DJ set at Output in Brooklyn the other night.
Read MoreAt just over 45 minutes, 2005's "Human After All" was Daft Punk's shortest album.
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Believe it or not, but last night disco legend Giorgio Moroder performed his first-ever DJ set.
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"No words for how unbelievable @GIORGIOMORODER_ was tonight. Thank you @RBMA & @OutputClubBK!"
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Could there have been a more perfect moment for an epic documentary on Giorgio Moroder?
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One of the best tracks on Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories is "Giorgio By Moroder," which has a long spoken reminisce from the Italo-disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder and which pays tribute to the endlessly tick-tocking dance beats that he created in the '70s.
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Italian supercomposer Giorgio Moroder' s having quite a ball lately.
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A masterful years-in-the-making publicity campaign set to music, a showcase of hellaciously expensive decades-old studio craftsmanship, a stunt-casted absurdist music event on the level of the Coachella Tupac hologram, a fascinating example of what happens when pop-star robots go to disco fantasy camp, a reminder that it's bee too long since you played Off The Wall front-to-back, an example of a hype-wave so deafening that you can almost forget there's an album behind it.
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"As most of you probably already know, Daft Punk 's album was officially released for streaming purposes on iTunes. However, the official album in its physical (or more than likely downloadable) form won't be here until May 21 and there's hype to be built. That's why Daft Punk is gracing the cover of Dazed and Confused and posing with Giorgio Moroder in these stunning black and white photos.
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I woke up to the best news I could ever wake up to, besides of course Seth Troxler proposing to me, Daft Punk's album had been leaked.
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You can stream Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories , on iTunes by clicking here , and then allowing your browser to open up the iTunes application.
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After collaborators Todd Edwards , Giorgio Moroder , Pharrell Williams and Chilly Gonzalez revealed their experiences, it is now time for the most important one of them all.
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With Random Access Memories they have created an album that could only have been made wholly in the studio with real instruments and musicians (including an orchestra and children's choir).
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EIGHT years on from their last album French robots DAFT PUNK are back with Random Access Memories.
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"The robots' music is the power to separate itself from all else that exists. They're not bound by time and space."
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The album opener is a smooth and funky journey that uses sweeping builds that roll into subtle drops which are perfect for lazing around on a summers day.
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Disco legend Giorgio Moroder has claimed that "everybody" wants to work with him following his recent collaboration with Daft Punk. The Italian synth pioneer features on the track 'Giorgio By Moroder' on the French duo's forthcoming new album 'Random Access Memories' and, in an interview with Billboard , he discussed the publicity he had received since it was revealed he would feature on the LP.
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Well, it's a story that's decades old being replayed over and over: artist doesn't want to sign her or his tracks over to a big label, label makes its own version and passes it off as original.
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Daft Punk have shared the full tracklisting for 'Random Access Memories' - check it out below.
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We went a whole 48 hours without having to talk about Daft Punk , but now comes the latest tease in the form of a Vine video (!) revealing the tracklist for the duo's new album, Random Access Memories.
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Pharrell Williams and The Strokes' Julian Casablancas are both set to feature on Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories , report the NME.
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The new Daft Punk album is rumoured to feature guest appearances from The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas and Pharrell Williams.
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Throughout the week, a whole lot of material gets posted here on XLR8R.
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A grab bag of videos capturing a production tutorial from Kate Simko, Kyle Hall and Thefft in the midst of their beatmaking process, and an interview with disco legend Giorgio Moroder popped up on our radar this week along with a few fresh looks at intriguing gear developments from Novation, Roland, and others.
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One of the producers who worked with Daft Punk on their new album Random Access Memories is the iconic Giorgio Moroder.
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Italian disco producer and recent Daft Punk collaborator Giorgio Moroder must have multiple vaults of material just screeching to be heard.
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(Following up our recent thoughts on Blade Runner and its mooted sequel, here are some thoughts about that soundtrack's contemporaries, in particular Midnight Express.)
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I sometimes feel like words are redundant when it comes to describing the magic that Aeroplane lets loose on his remixes.
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What better soundtrack for your start into the week than a 7 minutes 38 seconds journey to synth heaven?
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FACT points to more new uploads from the now tech-savvy disco legend Giorgio Moroder , who recently made a SoundCloud account and posted a large selection of old rarities and extended edits of his music.
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A few days ago, we reported that disco/dance impresario Giorgio Moroder had dropped enough rare tracks to fill two Soundcloud accounts, featuring alternate versions of songs he produced for Donna Summer, Battlestar Galactica , and much, much more.
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So read on to see who won, plus check out Giorgio Moroder's SoundCloud page and some awesome news from Chase & Status. -
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You know how every other contemporary disco-related review, or press release, contains a reference to Giorgio Moroder ?
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We're pretty excited about this week's edition of Press Play, as its got all kinds of streams, downloads, and videos from remarkably talented artists across the spectrum of electronic music.
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We're always excited to bring you the winners of our monthly Play remix contests, and today we've got a handful of victorious contestants from August's competition to tell you about.
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Featuring twelve tracks, including Wilco 's sunny "Heavy Metal Drummer" cut from their celebrated 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , the soundtrack features a seminal electro song from the pioneer of disco Giorgio Moroder (" Baby Blue"), plus songs by ambient electro-folk post-rocker The One Am Radio (and a cut under his real name Hrishikesh Hirway ), lush bliss-pop band Houses , R&B comeback story Charles Bradley , Wolfbird, Brooklyn-based synthpop trio Class Actress, L.A. soul revivalist Nick Waterhouse , White Dress frontwoman Arum Rae and more.
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Some mornings I wake up because thud thud double thud – it's the 2 Glitter Band drummers whacking tribal-shimmers out of their kits...
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New York-based synth-pop revivalist Morgan Z is releasing Elemental Themes , his first album as Chrome Canyon, on October 7 via Stones Throw.
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Having made a name for himself in the west coast's beacon of dance music, San Francisco, Doc Martin has become a legendary figure in house since taking up his craft in the mid-'80s.
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In 1984, Giorgio Moroder released his newly restored version of director Fritz Lang's silent 1927 sci-fi blockbuster Metropolis.
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