'These hipster DJs know the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack inside and out,' Cox says. I was always really busy, but not necessarily with music.'īut that didn't mean people weren't listening to his old stuff, says Chris Cox, a successful producer, DJ and Moroder collaborator. I had a great life, sometimes playing golf. I did some artwork, computer-generated stuff. 'I had so many different hobbies and ideas,' Moroder says. Moroder released his last album of songs in 1985, and wrote his last film score in 1992.

Audiences and producers got tired of the synthesizer, and movie offers came less and less frequently. He also wrote and produced songs for movies, and won Oscars for 'What A Feeling' from Flashdance and 'Take My Breath Away' from Top Gun.īut then, just like disco, it all dried up. Moroder went on to compose the scores for Scarface, American Gigolo and Cat People. 'Which, I must say, before me it was almost impossible for a pop composer to get into that world.' 'Suddenly, I became a movie composer,' he says. Moroder's career took a new shape with his emergence into the film world. His score for Midnight Express won him his first Oscar in 1979 - beating out John Williams' old-school symphonic score for Superman. Moroder and his synthesizer survived the death of disco at the end of the 1970s by going to the movies. 'I thought, 'This is the instrument which I would love to use.' And then I found this guy in Germany who had one.

'I was listening to Walter Carlos, when he played the album Switched-On Bach,' Moroder says.

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