Tom Moulton on the first mixtape, remixing and the industry | Red Bull Music Academy INTERVIEW Documentary Music Producer / Remixer

LEGENDARY MUSIC PRODUCERS

Tom Moulton
 on the first mixtape, remixing and the industry 

INTERVIEW / DOCUMENTARY / LECTURE

Legends of the Music Industry Series

Tom Moulton is the producer famed for his mixes of Gloria Gaynor’s “Never Can Say Goodbye,” MFSB’s “Love Is the Message” and hundreds of other disco and soul songs, beginning with B.T. Express’s 1974 hit “Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied).” He’s credited with a remarkable series of innovations, which he says all happened by accident, including the 12" single and the continuous disco mix.

In his 2013 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Moulton remembered his teenage years ordering singles for record stores and recounted how he got from there to the gay nightlife of Fire Island.
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Dubbed “the father of the disco mix,” Tom Moulton has contributed more to the evolution of dance music culture than most other producers. Born in New York in 1940, Moulton worked as a model and behind the scenes in the music industry before turning his hand to studio work. In the late 1960s, he created an “overlapping music tape” for Fire Island bar and restaurant the Sandpiper, and his innovative approach to producing and mixing disco songs first became apparent in 1975, when he turned the first side of Gloria Gaynor’s Never Can Say Goodbye album into a nonstop, 19-minute suite.

TOPICS:
0:38 – Formative Years19:26 – The first mixtape27:24 – Remixing42:38 – Philadelphia1:10:51 – Outside the industry MUSIC: 06:05 – Patsy Cline - “I Fall To Pieces” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk...
30:00 – B.T. Express – “Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FViY...
49:13 – MFSB – “Love Is The Message” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3Q7...
1:32:35 – Robert Upchurch – “The Devil Made Me Do It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhm_s...

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GIORGIO MORODER "Electro Disco-The Mix Tape" (Greatest Hits Non-Stop Mix) Various Artists Promo Mix 70s 80s synth classics "Hard-To-Find" RARE!

GIORGIO MORODER

"Electro Disco-The Mix Tape"

(Greatest Hits Non-Stop Mix)

electro disco classics

Tracklisting

1. Donna Summer; Spring Affair (Casablanca, 1976)
2. Giorgio Moroder; Chase (Casablanca, 1978)
3. Suzi Lane; Ooh La La (Elektra, 1979)
4. The Three Degrees; The Runner (Ariola, 1978)
5. Roberta Kelly; Trouble Maker (Chrissy Murderbot Re-Edit) (Oasis, 1976)
6. Donna Summer; Our Love (Casablanca, 1980)
7. Munich Machine; Whiter Shade of Pale (Casablanca, 1978
8. Giorgio; I Wanna Rock You (Casablanca, 1979)
9. Giorgio; Utopia Me Giorgio (Casablanca, 1977)
10. Donna Summer; I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Mega-Edit) (Casablanca, 1982)
11. Giorgio Moroder; Valley of the Dolls (Casablanca, 1980)
12. Donna Summer; Sunset People (Casablanca, 1980)
13. Amy Holland; She's On Fire (MCA Records, 1983)
14. Melissa Manchester; Thief of Hearts (Casablanca, 1984)
15. Madleen Kane; You Can (Chalet, 1981)
16. Limahl; The Neverending Story (EMI, 1984)
17. Giorgio; E=MC² (Casablanca, 1979)
18. Sparks; When I'm With You (Ariola, 1980)

Giorgio Moroder was a key figure in the mid-to-late-1970s Eurodisco scene, and one of real pioneers of using synthesizers in dance music.The early part of his career took place in Munich, where he made his name by discovering Donna Summer (and writing/producing the bulk of her catalogue). In the late 1970s he moved to L.A., and ended up doing a ridiculous amount of film-work. Seriously, if we're talking 80s pop trash and cheesy film soundtracks, Giorgio's name is bound to come up: he scored American Gigolo, Scarface, Midnight Express, Top Gun, Flashdance, The Neverending Story, and some fly-by-night B-movie fare like the horrible colorized recut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the Mr. T vehicle D.C. Cab. He wrote/produced "Call Me" by Blondie, "Take My Breath Away" for Berlin, "(Highway to the) Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins, almost anything you can think of by Donna Summer, and that's really just scratching the surface of the tunes he's made that everyone knows (and let's not forget, he has a HUGE catalogue of crazy underground synth disco gems on top of that).

"Excellent Chrissy Murderbot Retro Electro Disco DJ Mix"

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