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ATTENTION: it seems to
be a april-fool and this item was never released!
This is a unreleased album. Recorded late in 1975 (shortly after
Summer's first international hit 'Love To Love You Baby')
in Musicland Studios, Munich in a matter of weeks, the album drew
heavily on Moroder's fascination with synthesizers and Summer's
growing reputation for risque lyrics. The intended album sleeve,
featuring a barely clad Summer skipping gaily between the printed
circuitry of a monstrous machine, proudly stated that 'only the
human voice and electronic musical instruments were used in this
recording'. Moroder's record label in the US, Casablanca Records,
decided that the songs were too 'downbeat' and not 'commercially
suitable'. This view was prompted, no doubt, by the poor critical
response to Moroder's own synthesized 'Einzelganger' album for Casablanca
a few months previously. Such rejection for Summer was not unusual
- her 1974 pre-disco album 'Lady Of the Night' was not released
in the US and, nearly ten years after that, her 'Rainbow' double
album was also abandoned. (This now seems ironic given the huge
success of Summer's 'I Feel Love' one year later, but even this
massively successful song was nearly omitted from Summer's 1977
'I Remember Yesterday' album by Casablanca.Needless to say, on this
occasion Moroder's view prevailed and 'I Feel Love' went on to become
both a commercial and critical hit.) Upon cancellation of the intended
album Moroder set to work on a direct sequel to 'Love To Love You
Baby' and within a few weeks he, Bellotte and Summer had written
'A Love Trilogy' which was much more to the liking of Casablanca,
particularly with its soft-disco cover of Manilow's 'Could It Be
Magic'. Surprisingly, nobody at Casablanca noticed that one of the
other tracks from this replacement album was entitled 'Wasted' -
a thinly-veiled reference to both the rejected 'the Love Machine'
and the hedonistic drug culture now in control at Casablanca. Although
'The Love Machine' was never officially released, some advance pre-pressings
were accidentally distributed - mainly to radio stations in Europe.
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