In honor of wild Friday nights... on a more typical not-so-wild Friday night, I am celebrating with a classic 70's and 80's musical genius, Giorgio
Moroder. Giorgio produced some of the biggest hits of the day, including I Feel Love by Donna Summer and the theme song, Chase, from Midnight Express. He also created the score to Top Gun. Who can forget Berlin's Take My Breath Away? In many ways he pioneered electronic music, and I love seeing and hearing his
synthesized sound feel so fresh.
The video for 1977's From Here to Eternity in amazing in itself. I know it is a bit repetitive, but how can you not love a video with a twirling disco maven who dances under her own tossed glitter? Party time!
If you commit you'll also get to enjoy
snippets of
Moroder making his own slow strobe affect, a young
Willi Ninja (I think) and a crazy half nude Amazon woman twisting around into a zoom effect. To have lived in 1977...
If I could decorate the ultimate party of my dreams, I would hire Nicholas Anderson and Julie Ho's Confetti System to do it. These guys have done great work with some big players: Opening Ceremony, The American Ballet, Urban Outfitters, Bergdorf Goodman. I actually came across their work for one of my favorite bands, Beach House, at their Webster Hall show last spring. 
The show felt like a fantastical undersea geology themed carnival that washed up on shore in some cloudy New England town. I don't know if that analogy makes any sense, but it was so beautiful and yet simple, humble and somehow glamorous all at once. Just wonderful. I look forward to seeing more of their work in the future... and someday maybe I'll get my dream party.
