{"id":36963,"date":"2012-05-19T03:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theres-not-a-guitar-bass-or-drum-in-sight-on-i\/"},"modified":"2012-05-19T03:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T03:17:35","slug":"theres-not-a-guitar-bass-or-drum-in-sight-on-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theres-not-a-guitar-bass-or-drum-in-sight-on-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There\u2019s not a guitar, bass or drum in sight on \u2018I Feel Love.\u2019 Just synthesizers and sequencers keyed to a Summer vocal whose higher register could barely articulate the spare lyrics; it\u2019s 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, \u2018I Feel Love\u2019 is often praised, incorrectly, for sounding cold and machine-like. Listen again to the point at which the percussion fades and all that\u2019s left is the sequencer. The possibilities of recorded music have rarely sounded this numinous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/feature.aspx?1611\">Alfred Soto<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/marathonpacks.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">marathonpacks<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s not a guitar, bass or drum in sight on \u2018I Feel Love.\u2019 Just synthesizers and sequencers keyed to a Summer vocal whose higher register could barely articulate the spare lyrics; it\u2019s the first time in dance history that backing track and singer worked in such perfect tandem. At the time only Kraftwerk and Neu! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539,1811,1812],"class_list":["post-36963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-i-feel-love","tag-so-lets-dance-the-last-dance","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}