Giorgio Moroder News

Donna Summer's title as the "Queen of Disco" wasn't mere hype -- she was one of the very few disco performers to enjoy a measure of career longevity, and her consistent chart success was rivaled in the disco world only by the Bee Gees.

Usually we'd give this one to an act more overtly connected with dance music and DJ culture, but we like this promising synth-disco band too much to worry about genre distinctions.

Polish your whistle and lil' silver spoon and get ready to sweat! Gossip has delivered unto us a slab that treats dance music with intelligence and sexy savvy.

You say that you love women, you say that you love men ... but do you love your robot children? - "Robot Children" by Catholic SUPER EGO Thanks to the mid-decade rediscovery, by young people at least, of '70s gay bathhouse disco and the Hi-NRG club scene it spawned, the Bay is back on international electronic music nerds' radar.

Felix 'Da Housecat' Stallings, Chicago's most consistently entertaining DJ-producer, leaves behind the damp retro-funk squib of his last album and returns with 12 glittering examples of electronic club-pop. Part pumped-up Giorgio Moroder disco and part glacial synthesizers, it recalls Stallings' 2001 classic 'Kittenz And The Glitz' but revels in ...

Glass Candy sound like their on a space shuttle mission somewhere to the deep, dark recesses of the Galaxy Disco co-piloted by Lydia Lunch and Giorgio Moroder.

Inspired by a Russian nightclub where partygoersa faces were tested before getting inside, Bolshevik Disco offers a fantastic vision of nightclubbing in the spirit of Giorgio Moroder and Eno-era David Bowie.

There are so many artists coming to Houston this summer and fall who should pick up on the "classic album" trend Rocks Off could hardly stop at just five.

Like many electronic acts at the moment, Baltimore's Ear PWR is clearly drawing inspiration from analog synth-pop bands of the '80s as well as the bizarre disco/ambient/experimental pop hybrid made famous by Giorgio Moroder .

Phenomenal Hand Clap Band was one of my picks to click at this year's SXSW and the 8-piece more than delivered on their prog-disco-funk-psychedelic-electro workout during one of the showcases I took in.

Like many electronic acts at the moment, Baltimore 's Ear PWR is clearly drawing inspiration from analog synth-pop bands of the '80s as well as the bizarre disco/ambient/experimental pop hybrid made famous by Giorgio Moroder .