The Comedy of Errors: Skyflyer - Humanoid (22 May 1992)

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I only caught the last 90 minutes of Peel’s show for 22/5/92, but on that particular evening, it felt to me like all his dance music choices really hit the bullseye. Between Ultramarine, Trinity and Orson Karte, all bases were being touched from the chilled to the even more chilled as it turns out.  But this 138bpm banger from German duo, Arndt Pecher and Rolf Maier-Bode trumps them all. The bass in this sounds unstoppable - like a juggernaut ripping through the earth, and compared to the other tracks on Skyflyer’s Humanoid E.P., it could be played as a new track today and would still turn heads.  A decade after this, Peel’s dance track of the moment was Identify the Beat by Marc Smith and Safe and Sound.  He would talk about going to the Sonar Festival in Barcelona and playing it at “artery shredding volume”.  Humanoid belongs in that company, though whether the patrons of the John Peel Roadshow would have appreciated it is a moot point.

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