Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer on King of Snake

[Camiel]

Maybe this?

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That track, and more obviously 'I Feel Love', had a 4/4 kick drum, from a tape loop of a real drummer. The rhythm was much simpler than funk or disco, so white people (and even German/Italians with moustaches) could dance to it. Four-to-the-floor was born

Then again:

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In 1979, Giorgio [color=#00718d]said[/color] " It's nearly impossible to compose with a synthesizer. By its nature, improvisations are much easier, so I went into the studio and recorded "I Feel Love" as it was composed. All I used was an electronic bass line and an electronic drum. That's the big difference between normal and electronic recording.

[Jason Roth]

Oops. I thought I heard that the bass drum was real in a documentary I saw, but I guess not.

Damn documentaries are always messing me up.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Actualllllllyyyyyyy...

while a drum computer may not have existed per se, Krafwerk had already invented a "synthesised drum kit" by this stage, i think. (Cos I remember seeing it on Tomorrow's World and thinking "wow!")

[Camiel]

I just found out that the programmable Roland CR78 did exist in 1978. But I don't think that it has been used on 'I feel love'.

[lloyd]

"The way I demo'd back then wasn't much different to the way I work now. In 1974 the first cheap little drum machines came out, so I would use one of those, and I also had a real drum loop with several different tempos. I would put up a tape from a 24-track and I would have a mic for the vocal, as well as some sort of keyboard -- a Fender Rhodes, maybe. Having established the tempo of the song, I would just record the rhythm, along with a guide vocal, and then go from there."

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar9...s/giorgio.html