'E=MC2' (French album cover artwork) by Giorgio Moroder (1979). Produced by Giorgio Moroder and Harold Faltermeyer.

E-MC2

Here, Moroder may be thinking of 'E=MC2' his 1979 'first electronic live to digital album' - using the new digital recording technology, a process which signalled the end of analogue music reproduction.

With his 'E=MC2' album, Moroder pioneered the use of a new computerised medium which could match the futuristic nature of his electronically generated music. Ironically, being released on analogue vinyl, the benefits of the digital recording process were largely negated...! 

The album sleeve notes (possibly written by one of the Munich Machine robots) enthusiastically state:

"E=MC2. Music programmed as burst of energy. Energy coded numerically to micro-computers. Recorded by digital process and edited by computer. Energy is once again reproduced as music. Without distortion and noise. Approaching pure sound. 

"E=MC2 is a revolutionary human + computer collaboration. Live performance involves 25 computerized synthesizers. 4 computerized pianos. 3 micro-composers. Drums and electronic percussion. Vocals. Instruments are synch-locked to digital reference tone or external clock which acts as electronic conductor's baton. Ultimately, digital technology and human creativity merge in live concert. 

"E=MC2 is finally a complicated way of comprehending energy... simply. Understanding ultra-scientific language of digital process is... unnecessary. The future can best be understood with the ear and felt with the body. After all is said: we speak of music."

The above Americanised spellings and haltingly phrased English suggest wordsmith Pete Bellotte's role in Moroder's world was diminishing. Indeed, out of the six tracks on the album Bellotte wrote the words for just the title track. 

Some subsequent CD releases of E=MC2 have also included the fifteen-minute Moroder composition 'Evolution'. This track never appeared on the original release, and is not a digital recording. It originally appeared as side two of Moroder's 1978 'Battlestar Galactica' album.
 

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