Giorgio by Moroder Lyrics
When I was fifteen, sixteen, when I really started to play guitar
I definitely wanted to become a musician
It was almost impossible because—it was—the dream was so big
That I didn't see any chance because
I was living in a little town; was studying
And when I finally broke away from school and became a musician
I thought, "Well, now I may have a little bit of a chance"
Because all I really wanted to do is music
And not only play music, but compose music
At that time, in Germany, in '69, '70, they had already discotheques
So, I would take my car, would go to a discotheque
Sing maybe thirty minutes
I think I had about seven, eight songs
I would partially sleep in the car
Because I didn't want to drive home and that helped me for about
Almost two years to survive in the beginning
I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the '50s
The sounds of the '60s, of the '70s
And then have a sound of the future
And I said, "Wait a second, I know the synthesizer
Why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?"
And I didn't have any idea what to do
But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track
Which then was synced to the Moog Modular
I knew that could be a sound of the future
But I didn't realize how much the impact would be
My name is Giovanni Giorgio
But everybody calls me Giorgio
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Daft Punk uses a monologue by famed Italian producer and dance music pioneer Giorgio Moroder timed with precision over a new beat to describe their process and the essence, evolution and condition of dance music.
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One day I got a call here in town, they wanted to meet for lunch and I said: “Okay I come, but under the condition I can take my son with me”. So I said [to my son]: “Okay, you come and have lunch with them but don’t tell anybody how they look”. No helmets. They asked me if I wanted to work on their album and I said yes.
At that time I was living in Paris and Thomas called me to come to the studio and work on a song. So happy, I thought “Okay, I work with Daft Punk, I [can] start to play piano, sing and we compose a song” and they said: “No, let us do the music, you just talk and tell the story of your life”.They had three microphones, and I asked the engineer why, he said: “The microphone on the left is from the ‘50s, so when you talk about your life in Italy, they’re recording with that mic”. Then they had a microphone from the '70s, “That’s when you tell the story about the '70s”; and then they had a new one, which I didn’t know, “That’s if you talk about the future!”.
So I said: “This is great but… who would ever know the difference?”
– Giorgio Moroder, Score: The Podcast
- 3.Giorgio by Moroder
- 4.Within
- 7.Touch
- 8.Get Lucky
- 9.Beyond
- 10.Motherboard
- 12.Doin’ It Right
- 13.Contact
- 14.Horizon