With one foot in the future and the other one firmly rooted in the past C, L and P Moroder venture out into the world to spread music with groove and other pleasures. Under the watchful eyes of their uncle Giorgio they follow a long-standing family tradition of combining futuristic music with traditional craftsmanship.
The story unfolds in Ortisei, a town of 4,500 inhabitants in the Italian region of Southern Tyrol. Here in the shadows of the Dolomiti Mountains, amidst beautifully tend half-timbered houses, succulent dark green meadows and adjacent pine forests lies the ancestral seat of the Moroders dynasty. Born to parents with progressive dispositions, the three boys spent all their childhood here, sheltered away from the hustle and bustle of modern society, scaling mountains, tending sheep and engaging in the traditional sport of ‘Roll-Igel’ (which basically entails rolling down a hill wrapped in a rug). But as they grew older, a crevice of doubt began to yawn in the solid veneer of their jaunty milieu. Their minds began to misgive that something appeared fallacious: The perennial blue sky that was never clouded! The grass, so green as if of synthetic nature! And is it a plug instead of a teat protruding from that cow’s udder? Even the cordiality of people surrounding them suddenly inferred doubt, elicited by the observance of a certain programmed repetition in the moving corners of their crimson, grinning mouths.
Like round pegs in square holes the three deviant boys truculently began to shun away from this world and immersed themselves completely in Italo, Disco and House & Techno sounds or, strange ‘boom boom bob’ as locals would later refer to it in a tone of faint derision. However, it is still shrouded in mystery on how exactly they managed to get their hands on those incredibly rare records in such an isolated place. Rumor has it there had been strings of break-ins in vinyl manufacturing plants all over Italy but those suspicious facts never substantiated.
After a number of failed attempts to get a club night started in one of the local bars and an antisocial-behaviour-order looming over their heads due to charges of indecent attire and noise pollution they were eventually faced with a difficult decision: Should they go away from Ortisei individually and leave certainty for uncertainty or accept their fate and bow to the dictatorship of conformity concertedly? Apprehensive of their future they looked at those who had bequeathed their homeland before them, soon to return after imprinted by the brutality of life outside Italy, with faces looking broken and discolored and sad eyes downcast and uncomfortably floating in deep caves never to look up again.
Torn between the loneliness of opportunity or a security in obscurity, it was finally the joint trips to the disco cities of Munich, Innsbruck, Bolzano and Milan which led to the decision to share the love of music with groove with people without Lederhosen or Dirndl.
This led C and P Moroder’s path to the East-German disco stronghold Dresden, where they quickly established a monthly club night called COSMIC DANCER and lured entertainers from all over the world to Saxony, amongst them Tim Sweeney, Kaos, Runaway, Todd Terje or Danny Wang. With their radio show COSMIC LISTENER the primarily give a forum to Dresden’s local heroes but from time to time even international guests like Maximilian Skiba, Traxx, James T. Cotton or St. Göran stop by. L Moroder on the other hand wound up in London, where he learned the craft of sign painting and picture carving and now takes care of the creative direction of his brothers activities.
