The most known Eurodisco-sound is the sound of the German Eurodisco:Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer, Mats Bjorklund, Frank Farian, Amii Stewart.
They made name with Donna Summer, Roberta Kelly, Sparks, The Three Degrees, Blondie and others.
The sound of Giorgio Moroder is easily recognised by the special synthesiser sound. Many of that sounds where copied in several dance-songs later in the eighties and even now in the nineties.
One of the first singles Giorgio made was 'Son of my father'.
In the disco-era Giorgio had his own recordlabel:Oasis, which was distributed in the U.S. by the famous Casablanca label.
Pete Bellotte, born August 1946, was home producer of the European Ariola label in Germany and came in contact with Giorgio Moroder for the 'Sone of my father' single, and made them from that moment on a team.
Pete had a studio in his house near Munich where he made the music for Trax, together with Keith Forsey, a drummer born January 1948 in London.
He played on albums from Silver Convention, Boney M, Roberta Kelly, Donna Summer and others.
Frank Farian made records with Boney M, Eruption, Gilla.
Another beautiful Eurodisco-sound is the French
sound:Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Alec R. Costandinos, Don Ray,
Love & Kisses, Voyage, La Belle Epoque, Sheila B Devotion,
Cerrone.
Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo are well known as producers and writers of songs from The Village People, The Ritchie Family and Patrick Juvet.
Alec R. Costandinos made music which was also called art-disco. Music which was recorded on an album and the numbers on the album were album-side long. One album had only one or two numbers on it. He worked together with Don Ray. On the albums there are two singers from London heard: Madeline Bell, (also worked on albums from Giorgio Moroder) and Vicki Brown. Don Ray also worked with Cerrone, the man from the hit Supernature.
Voyage is a group which mixed native sounds with disco. Many samples from the albums were used in other recordings later in the eighties.
The Italian sound has names such as Jacques Fred Petrus, Celso Valli, Claudio Simonetti, Giancarlo Meo, Mauro Malavasi,Quelli Del Castello.
Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi made records with Revanche, Macho and The Peter Jacques band. Songs as I'm a man, Walking on music, You get high in N.Y. City and several more got high on international disco-charts.
Celso Valli who wrote and Quelli Del Castello who produced did the music for Tantra, Azoto, The Passengers.
Easy Going had a huge disco-hit with 'Fear' and Vivien Vee had a disco hit with 'Give me a break' in 1980. These songs came from Giancarlo Meo and Claudio Simonetti.
The other Eurodisco-sounds came from Holland (Risque, American Gypsy),Belgium (Patrick Hernandez, The Chocolat's , Two Man Sound, Emly Starr Explosion, Telex), Sweden (Abba), Spain (Santa Esmeralda, Leroy Gomez).
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