Giorgio Moroder: E=MC Full Album + Bonus: The Making Of (1979)

By 1979 Giorgio Moroder was one of the most successful record producers of his time. Donna Summer released an unprecedented 4 consecutive double-albums, 3 of them - Live And More, Bad Girls, and the compilation album On The Radio - released within a little more than a year, all hitting #1 in the US, and equally securing her 4 #1 hit singles. The Bad Girls 2LP had only just hit the stores before Moroder was back in the studio for another groundbreaking album, E=MC², heralded as the first electronic live-to-digital album. Recorded at Rusk Sound Studios in June 1979, it was an extortionate cost at 15,000 USD per day because of the new technology involved by Soundstream, Inc. Moroder and Harold Faltermeyer sync'ed numerous computers and synthesizers over the course of one week to record what Moroder named “the first live-to-digital recording“ with the help of the ever-faithful Keith Forsey on drums as the only analogue instrument. Moroder sang the entire album in his head voice being fed throug