RafaelFajardo

There’s not a guitar, bass or drum in sight on ‘I Feel Love.’ Just synthesizers and sequencers keyed to a Summer vocal whose higher register could barely articulate the spare lyrics; it’s the first time in dance history that backing track and singer worked in such perfect tandem. At the time only Kraftwerk and Neu! made music like this, and like Kraftwerk, ‘I Feel Love’ is often praised, incorrectly, for sounding cold and machine-like. Listen again to the point at which the percussion fades and all that’s left is the sequencer. The possibilities of recorded music have rarely sounded this numinous.