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O Fortuna [Vinyl]

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This is the definitive dance tune from the 90's. Every Saturday night inside Carmen's at Miranda the DJ would play this hit and each time it would play I'd saunter up to him asking what the name of it was. Due to my drunken demeanour I'd forget and have to repeat the process week after week until he wrote it on a coaster for me. As hard as I tried to track it down I couldn't owing to it's blacklisting due to copyright arguments. "Excalibur" provided a fine mix but it just wasn't Apotheosis excellence. I finally was able to download it by visiting limewire.

This is pretty much the quintessential techno song of the early nineties from the club world. Good luck finding the single - it was pulled from commercial release when these guys were sued for sampling the opera score it came from! If you can find a copy, grab it!

Occasionally, you can find this on the old Rave Til Dawn compilation... but there are two, one re-released without it.

Pity this is hard to find. Carl Orf's Carmina Burana is wonderful. This is my favorite sample of his work to date. If you can find it, acquire it!

Very exellent "spin" off classical/opera music-a must have for techno lovers

I seriously love this song. I have a CD of Techno music that had this on it, and now have it on my comp and iTouch. (OMG I said iTouch!!! oh noes!! lol) AS much as I love it, I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would pay more than the price of a full CD of music for it. There are better places to get it than someone being greedy enough to charge $50, $150, or $[...] bucks for it.

Just sayin'

But other than the outrageous price being asked, this is a FANTASTIC song. It's powerful, compelling, and very dramatic, and does justice to the original opera piece. LOVE THIS SONG.

The reason that this particular Apotheosis tune is not widely available is due to a lawsuit brought against the group by the estate of the Carmina Burana composer Carl Orff. Aside from the financial restitution that the group had to make to the estate, the song was immediately discontinued and copies were pulled from store shelves. Thank goodness for the black market and certain DJ's who insisted on preserving this quintessential 1990's rave number!