{"id":402,"date":"2007-05-03T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/i-feel-old\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T20:00:26","slug":"i-feel-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/i-feel-old","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just noticed that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of both Donna Summer\/Giorgio Morodoer’s seminal electronic hit “I Feel Love” and Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking electronic album Trans-Europe Express<\/em>. It’s interesting in itself that these were released in the same year, but mostly I’m blown away that it was that long ago.<\/p>\n

I discovered both of these works somewhat after the fact, but they would rank high on the list of recorded works that had the greatest influence on my aesthetic. I did a cover of “I Feel Love” 10 or so years ago; maybe I should dust off the files and remix it for this anniversary year.<\/p>\n

Here’s a rather laughable video of “I Feel Love” with a number of stage musicians that have nothing whatsoever to do with the original music: <\/object><\/p>\n

No, those synth and drum parts were not played by human hands; and no, there’s no guitar anywhere in the song. At least it’s a decent recording of the music, and of the album version rather than the rudely truncated radio version.<\/p>\n

Here’s one of the title track from Trans Europe Express<\/em> with some cool maybe-at-the-time-futuristic-looking trains and stuff: <\/object><\/p>\n

The music is an odd version; it sounds like they kind of jammed together pieces from several tracks. I think some of the trains are models, come to think of it. That is the band themselves in the shots; presumably they’re on the actual TEE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just noticed that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of both Donna Summer\/Giorgio Morodoer’s seminal electronic hit “I Feel Love” and Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking electronic album Trans-Europe Express. It’s interesting in itself that these were released in the same year, but mostly I’m blown away that it was that long ago. I… Continue reading I Feel Old<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-nebula","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}