Giorgio Moroder – Midnight express / Outkast – Return of the G
Here we go, another day another break! After traveling all around the globe, digging like a rabbit, I just want to go back home and rest for a while. Yes, this break comes from Italy, a land of great composers like Ennio Morricone (he received the Honorary Academy Award this year and I will give you a taste of his music in the future) and Giorgio Moroder. Only the last two exponents of an incredible Italian tradition.
The today’s sample is (Theme from) Midnight Express, a theme included in Midnight Express: Music from the original motion pictures soundtrack. The movie obviously got the same name of the song and was directed by Alan Parker in the 1978. The movie is based on a true story and is about the bad experience of an American’s imprisonment in Turkey for smuggling hashish. I owned a vhs of this movie and so I can say it’s a nice one, expertly directed. But I am definitely not a movie expert so let’s go back to the music.
Midnight express was sampled by Outkast in Return of the G, from the album Aquemini. Outkast are now a Pop phenomenon, an MTV’s product, but believe me, I used to be in love with them till Aquemini. Now they are truly garbage but in the ’90 they were the kings of the south, and we were all impressed by their innovative style. They dropped some of the most fresh hits I have ever heard.
LISTEN TO GIORGIO MORODER MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
LISTEN TO OUTKAST RETURN OF THE “G“
January 19, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Lo sapete che la stessa canzone e’ stata campionata dai Mobb Deep per Get Away, vero?
E’ nell’album Infamy, per altro abbastanza scarso…
January 20, 2007 at 2:29 am
gran selezione Marti!
Get Away peraltro gran pezzo…
Gia’ avevo in programma un mix di Moroder-Outkast-Mobb Deep… stay tuned!
June 5, 2007 at 11:55 am
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July 18, 2007 at 10:33 am
[...] is actually the second time because I have already talked about Giorgio Moroder in a previous post (click here). Italy has a great music tradition in Opera and in Classical music, nobody can deny that, but what [...]
July 31, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Peccato… il Link non funziona piu. Lo potete per caso sistemare?
Grazie
August 1, 2007 at 11:47 am
Ciao Cassio, eccoti il link di Moroder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1dldepngi14
Magari in futuro posteremo altre cose simili a Beretta 70.
Dato che sei Brasiliano, potresti consigliarmi qualcosa di funk/soul del tuo paese…so che ci sono cose veramente belle (le ho anche sentite quando due anni fa son stato in vacanza, in particolare a Salvador de Bahia) però ho bisogno di qualcuno che mi dia dei nomi da cui iniziare.
Obrigado
October 15, 2008 at 11:15 pm
[...] Outkast – Return Of The G’s instrumental [White Label]. Based on the Moroder track… [...]
November 26, 2008 at 4:51 pm
GIORGIO MORODER MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
nice song, i loved it
keep up your good work
April 9, 2009 at 6:22 am
[...] congas solo, then Levan throws in some more “pop-ish” tunes like Shalamar, Cher and a Moroder track under the name of Munich [...]