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E=MC˛

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Hearing this album again, was such a blast from the past. For those of you not familiar with this album or time period, there was a dispute back then, on exactly who recorded the first "digital album". Moroder's E=MC2 was marketed by Casablanca Records (now known as Polygram) as the First Electronic Live to Digital Recording. Ry Cooder also claims to have released the first digital recording. Ditto for Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" release. The music here is dated, but for those of us who bought it when it was current, it's great to revisit these old tracks. It contains the original album, plus two additional cuts (which aren't all that great). I always thought that Moroder had female singers on this LP, and was surprised to learn that all the falsetto vocals on this album, were done by him (Either naturally, or electronically aided). Again, a guilty pleasure to hear this material again, on an album that has been near impossible to find on CD previously. It was originally released on Moroder's "Oasis" label, and distributed by Casablanca in the US. It has finally been re-released by a German label "Repertoire". Definitely recommended for Giorgio fans. He truly is the Godfather of electronic music. Every time you listen to electronic dance, techno, trance and ambient music - remember Giorgio started it all in the mid 70's, along with other bands such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.

This is just as good today as it was when i first heard it.
The only bad thing is the length of the release. With the 2 bonus tracks and "Evolution" clocking in at over 15 minutes the disc is only 50 minutes total. Do not let this keep you from buying it. You won't be disappointed.......Now if someone at the record label would listen there are still more Moroder classics to be re-released, such as Knights in White Satin and the Munich Machine albums.
WE ARE WAITING.......anyone listening ??

Hello....so you are all used to the Digital Age...imagine way back in 1979...the height of Disco....an LP is released by the greatest Disco maestro..Giorgio Moroder. Little did we know that this was a true groundbreaker in technology. This is the first truly digital recording made for dancing. True, the vocals are rather annoying, but the joy of pure electronics and dancing make this a minor point. Being a former DJ back in the good old days, I remember getting a test pressing of this LP and playing the hell out of it...it looks like I was right in proclaiming this recording as a first but not the last in the process of making dance music and technology one!! Take a tip from me..if you like trance, electronica, techno...do yourself a favor and GET THIS!!!

Lusted for this ever since vinyl disco hits have started to be released on CD. I can be transported to another place and time listening to music from my younger days; this CD actually got me a bit teary-eyed. It was like running into an old friend after being out of touch for many years.

Especially welcome is the inclusion of "Evolution," which was a surprisingly popular underground favorite in the old days when I was DJing in New Orleans. (It was much darker than anything else being played at the time.) I remember playing one copy 4 beats behind the other one to create a beatiful echoing reply to the soaring solo guitar in various places. If I remember right, "Evolution" was actually the B side of the Battlestar Galactica LP, which I played once and shelved until a DJ friend pointed out the hidden gem on the other side.

Sound is pristine and detailed. Listen and marvel at what Giorgio and his team achieved with electronics which pale in comparison to today's over-sophisticated, over-programmed formulaic dance music. Here is music with warmth and humor beneath the synths, real (!) instruments and 4-on-the-floor bass drum beat.

A coupla of clinker songs are included, but buy this for the strong cuts.

On the first day of the first month of the first year of the new 1980's decade,Eurodisco pioneer presents what is (to my knowledge) the first completely live in the studio digital recording;later known as DDD on some late 80's CD's.But this was back when vinyl and various tapes were the only game in town so Moroder really mixes this album hot!The first five songs are basically one long Eurodisco style suite-utilizing the same general techniques you'll find on Kraftwerk and Donna Summer albums of this period (Computer World sounds GREAT alongside this) but Moroder,fresh off of work with Summer chooses a far livelier,more melodic approch with piles of female vocals and vocorder.The style couldn't be more Munich.The final title cut is actually a very interesting song-somewhat polyrhythm for such a disco based recording.Of course the two major selling points of 'E=MC2' is how unlike so much commercial disco this never sounds like product;of a certain time now and then but also far ahead of it's time-those listening to music of the early 21'st century will note how remarkably ahead of it's time this is (the same can be said for Kraftwerk).But the most interesting part of this is the bonus cuts;"Love In You,Love In Me" actually sounds like a pure digitized pop single (not disimilar to "Funkytown" in many ways) and the other "Evolution" is just stunning-a 15 minute hypnotic electronic metranome featuring an array of synthesizers (one of which has got to be the Clavitar) and has the funkiest disco rhythm of anything else here.I don't know if Giorgio Moroder was the very first person to give electronic dance music any kind of human personality.But even if not personality is certainly something this album has in abundance.

I don't know why it took so long time to create this CD. Moroder is the father of electric disco, but we can find a very few albums connected to him, mainly the solo albums, Munich Machine and so on. May be now...

Great music! I got hooked when I was playing grand theft auto and was looking all over for the man behind the music. Love the CD.

I have been searching for this CD for a very long time. I found it listed in other dealers inventory lists but when I went to order it all of them said that it was not in stock and It would be sent to me at a later date. Within 30 days I would receive an e-mail informing me that my order was being cancelled for one reason or another but Amazon actually had it and now I have it. Thank You Amazon.

This is a very simple review. Call it a warning. This album by GM is cheesy, period. The squeaky vocals and the weak synth lines are far inferior to GM's other album, "From Here to Eternity." On that cd, the tracks are very trancy, features electro vocals and nice chord changes. The beat is stronger and harder. Especially good, besides the title track, is track #6: "First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love." Excellent techno riff that lacks the cheesey vocals, dated Expose sound effects and stabs. It just rolls and rolls and rolls. Nice driving cd. However, E=MC2 is a cd to pass on. I was very disappointed. One more note, this album sounds old and dated. "Eternity" could still work a dancefloor now. No one would think it's almost 30 years old.