The Story of Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder's "I feel love"

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http://pitchfork.com/features/article/s ... feel-love/

Fand's interessant zu lesen, obwohl von Simon Reynolds.

While Moroder and Bellotte concentrated on building the tune’s classic locomotive bassline, they didn’t notice that Wedel had asked engineer Jürgen Koppers to lay down “a reference pulse” or as Moroder now calls it, the Click. “We’ve laid the first track down, and Robbie says, ‘Would you like to synch the next track to this?’ And we don’t know what he means,” recalls Bellotte. “So Robbie explained that because of the signal he’d put on track 16 of the tape, each part of the tune created on the Moog will link up to exactly the same tempo. And the timing was exactly spot on. Robbie had worked out this methodology himself—it wasn’t something the machine’s inventor, Bob Moog, knew about. It was through Robbie that we managed to get the track—he’s the reason why, when you hear ‘I Feel Love’ today, those sounds in there are so solid and fantastic.”

Session musicians drilled by hard taskmaster producers and seasoned bands led by disciplinarians like James Brown had often aspired to this level of unerring superhuman tightness; sometimes they’d got real close. But with the help of a machine and a German engineer, Moroder and Bellotte established a new paradigm for pop: a sound of such metronomic relentlessness it really did feel like it came from the future.