GIORGIO MORODER E=MC 2 MEGA-RARE TEST PRESSING LP 1ST
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GIORGIO MORODER ‘E = MC 2’ TEST PRESSING LP FIRST ELECTRONIC LIVE-TO-DIGITAL ALBUM
This is an incredibly rare, test pressing in simple, type-written, record company sleeve, of the disco legend's 1980 album for Casablanca. Billed as the first electronic live-to-digital album. Six tracks in all.
Record condition: Perfect, probably unplayed by the looks of it (before I play-tested it) and certainly in Near Mint condition. Plays flawlessly.
Sleeve is a simple, white card sleeve with type-written details of the album sellotaped to front.
While Moroder's work with Donna Summer and others had favored strings and lavish orchestration, synthesizers and electronic beats defined this LP. Moroder was hardly the only producer who was using synthesizers in the late '70s, but while other disco/dance-pop albums of 1979 combined them with horns, strings, and Latin percussion, they are the very foundation of E=MC2. "In My Wildest Dreams," "I Wanna Rock You," and "What a Night" are average disco tunes -- it's the computerized digital production that made them so fresh-sounding and risk-taking for their time.
To fully appreciate how forward-thinking this album was, you have to remember that in 1979 R&B and dance-pop hadn't gone completely high-tech and were still relying on a lot of studio musicians. This is the electronic dance music that preceded the rise of techno, house, and industrial noise, and it came at a time when hip-hop was in its infancy and the rave subculture had yet to be invented. Even though the songs themselves are average, Moroder and Faltermeyer's futuristic production makes E=MC2 a historically interesting LP that anyone who has enjoyed electronic dance rhythms needs to check out.
TRACKS
1. Baby Blue
2. What a Night
3. If You Weren't Afraid
4. I Wanna Rock You
5. In My Wildest Dreams
6. E Equals MC2
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