Abstract
If you don’t already know the name, we guarantee you will know some of his work - or the whole musical genres it spawned. Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack work for films like ‘Top Gun’, ‘Flashdance’ and ‘Electric Dreams’ won him three Oscars, four Golden Globes, and a bunch of Grammys. But it’s his 1970s dance music production that has had the greatest, lasting impact in music. Often cited as the father of disco, he brought in synthesisers, pioneering electronic dance music (EDM) and a path that heavily influenced genres like house, techno and beyond.
When FPT Industrial decided it needed a start-up sound for its latest powertrain, it called on music legend Giorgio Moroder. The work was debuted at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. We talked to him about this unusual collaboration, as well as his influential work in electronic music.
