Sunday 12 August 2018

The Comedy of Errors: Traumatic Stress - No Fortuna! (1 May 1992)



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This was a further example of dance records on Peel’s playlists of early summer 1992 quoting from or basing themselves around choral classical music - see also A House and Prudens Futuri.
Opening out of some major tape manipulation which may or may not be parts of Carl Orff’s O Fortuna being run backwards, the grandiose spell is briefly broken around 1:04 by the presence of that deadly squelching underwater saxophone sound that so much Euro dance music of the early 90s packed into its grooves. I blame Yello for this.  Happily, this doesn’t stay long and the piece drives on relentlessly, perfectly managing to showcase what YouTube user Shadegat3 referred to as “Pure energy that lasted beyond the party”.

Video courtesy of TraumaticStress.

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