Production of "I feel love" by Summer/Moroder

As far as the graphic is concerned, I have to figure out if I can post graphics here...

Tilman

(to post an image: if you've uploaded the file, type the url and put an i before http in your post)

Upload it to www.photobucket.com

This will give you a link

Come back here and type and "i" (w/o quotes of course) before pasting the link here, no spaces

http://www.thing.de/tilman/i%20feel%20love.jpg

Explains everything, doesnt it?

This is his email reply:

"Dear Mr. Tilman
this is the only way i can help you

saluti
Giorgio Moroder"

T.

DJ'ing this track out and mixing in one headphone has proven this to be the case also

The man is God.

This is what I meant by

DJ'ing this track out and mixing in one headphone has proven this to be the case also

You have to make sure you've got the left earphone on to mix it properly

i feel love is one of my all time favourite records ever. i blame my sister. she played it rather a lot when it came out.

xpost

or mix on the snare!

Drum machine? He produced the "drums" using noise-wave on a synth, didn't he? At least they sound that way. :)

You mean, "I Feel Love" was not disco?

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), June 15th, 2005.

You mean, "I Feel Love" was not disco

I Feel Love has neither drum machines, nor vocoders.

-- PappaWheelie (pappawheeli...), June 15th, 2005.

Drum machines, kind of, yes. And certainly lots of synths.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), June 15th, 2005.

So anyway, any more information on the use of tape loops in the production of "I feel love"? Or any source for this info?

I am asking all this, because I am writing a book on loops, by the way, and "I feel love" will be subject of the final chapter, on which I am currently working...

In a break with protocol, the producer composed the backing track in advance of the melody, developing a bass line that, due to the technilogical limits of the Moog, comprised a short sequence of notes. "It was very difficult to work because the oscillators didn't have quartz to keep the frequency steady, and so it was always out of tune." Moroder introduced a degree of variety by altering the key at regular intervals, although finding a synthesized sound that resembled a drum was only partially achievable. "We managed to create a snare and a hi-hat, but we couldn't find a punchy enough bass drum. Eventually we just did an overdub."

...and then it moves on to talk about the left/right thing.

Tape loops were one of two sampling methods used in Hip-Hop before samplers became readily available (the other being turntables, obv).

Steve Ett was known to do it (Beastie Boys' Rhyming & Stealing, Public Enemy's Public Enemy Number 1, etc.).

I'm I misunderstanding?

I hope that graphic makes it into every Encyclopedia of Symbology and at least one radio telescope transmission into space.

I'm with that. I'm amazed/amused at how that took off online after I posted it -- already reblogged by Matt Fraction and Wil Wheaton!