Wax Poetics Issue #62

Wax Poetics Issue 62 features electronic producer/composer Giorgio Moroder on the cover, with instrumental duo Ratatat on the flip. 

Contents

Giorgio Moroder
Ratatat
The Ladies of Chic
Steve Arrington
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The Photography of Les McCann
Van Hunt
Divine Styler
Nu Shooz
Jamaiel Shabaka
Ibeyi
Seven Davis Jr.
Bixiga 70
Nick Hakim
45 Francki of IAM
Shusei Nagaoka

Features

Iconic computer composer Giorgio Moroder got his start writing and producing pop music in Germany. But a chance encounter with American session singer Donna Summer would change the course of his career. A string of hits together would make Summer an R&B and disco superstar and Moroder a wanted musical asset in the States, and their proto-techno, all-synthesizer dance track “I Feel Love” set the tone for the future of music. As Moroder embraced the Moog synthesizer and continued to revolutionize dance music, he transferred this electronic sentiment to multiple soundtracks, including the now-classics