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View all search resultsAt your Leisure: Disco Inferno - Giorgio Moroder returns to Indonesia
Photos via Dragonfly/ismaya LIveFamed producer and electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder recently returned to Indonesia after last yearâs successful show at Social House to play another rousing DJ set, this time at the Dragonfly club inside the Graha BIP building
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Photos via Dragonfly/ismaya LIve
Famed producer and electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder recently returned to Indonesia after last year's successful show at Social House to play another rousing DJ set, this time at the Dragonfly club inside the Graha BIP building.
Local organizers Ismaya Live were once again responsible for the concert.
Combining his classic material with more-modern EDM (electronic dance music), Giorgio gave a set permeated by his legendary touch'and which received a rapturous reception by the crowd.
The club's intimate setting was something that the producer/musician/innovator said he appreciated as much as the massive scale of his festival gigs.
'I like festivals but I like clubs too'as long as the audience goes with it.'
A trailblazer who was arguably one of the first musicians to inject electronic and disco flourishes into pop music, Moroder has a resume that most musicians would kill for.
The surprisingly spirited 75-year-old has worked with pop-culture icons such as Cher, The Who's Roger Daltrey, Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Queen's Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, Chaka Khan, Cheap Trick and Pat Benatar.
To put things in perspective, witness some of his collaborative biggest hit singles: Donna Summer's 'Hot Stuff' and 'I Feel Love,' Kenny Loggins' 'Danger Zone,' David Bowie's 'Putting Out the Fire' and Blondie's 'Call Me.'
Meanwhile, many of his albums, including From Here to Eternity (1977) and E=MC2 (1979) have been lauded as some of electronic music's most influential records.
The Italian producer's career, which began in the mid-1960s, is far from simply celebrating past glories.
More recently, he has worked with Daft Punk, a band whose sound was clearly influenced by Moroder, on their 2013 Grammy-winning record Random Access Memories, as well as with indie trio Haim, just to name a few.
He still sets his eyes on working with some of the biggest names in modern music. 'I'd like to work with all the big names'Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, all those girls. Maybe I will, I don't know yet,' he says, laughing.
Moroder even has time to release his own records, the latest being last year's Deja Vu, which featured collaborations with Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, and Charlie XCX.
Throughout his career, Moroder has won 3 Academy Awards for best motion picture score or song, 4 Golden Globes and 4 Grammys and earned more than 100 gold and platinum records.
Some of his most famous works were for the movies Midnight Express, Top Gun, Superman III, Scarface, and Rambo III.
He says that scoring a film is unique. 'If you do a song for a movie, first it has to fit the movie, then you have to find the right single with the right image for the movie. Cat People, the 1982 erotic thriller, offered a good illustration. 'It was very difficult, very black. I needed a guy with an image like David Bowie. Or, for example, Blondie's 'Call Me' (for 1980's American Gigolo), it was up tempo and fit the scene of the actors driving. The song worked well with the movie, the actors and the acting.'
Alas, Moroder hasn't had a chance to listen to any Indonesian music, something that he said he planned to rectify the day after his Dragonfly gig.
He said that he has 'plenty of time' to absorb some local sounds that might be incorporated into his music, as he did on 'Forever Friends', the song he wrote for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, which was infused with Chinese instruments.
Despite his production credits'and the star treatment given to him by fan at Dragonfly'Moroder is not a paparazzi-hounded celebrity, a freedom he appreciates.
'I'm happy that people don't recognize me on the streets. Tonight [at Dragonfly], maybe),' he says, adding that he is happy to keep the focus on the music.
'As long as I work,' Moroder says, smiling.
