“I Feel Love” by Donna Summer

Donna Summer cut "I Feel Love" for her fifth album, I Remember Yesterday, in 1977, a record where every track was meant to conjure a different musical decade. Producers and co-writers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte drew the future, and they built it on a Moog synthesizer: cold, pulsing and utterly hypnotic.

It started life hiding on the flip of "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" until the sides were swapped two months later, then went to number one in the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria and number six on the Hot 100. David Bowie, Brian Eno, the Human League, Blondie and Kylie Minogue all took notes, the Financial Times credits it with laying the groundwork for electronic dance music, and in 2011 the Library of Congress put it in the National Recording Registry.

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