This record was a collaboration between Philip Oakey, the big-voiced lead singer of the techno-pop band the Human League, & Giorgio Moroder, the Italian-born father of disco who spent the '80s writing synth-based pop & film music. It is a testimony to Moroder's fame as a composer that he was able to earn equal billing with Oakey for a record he co-wrote & produced, but for which he supplied no more than "occasional synthesizers" as a musician. The music is not substantially different from