Apotheosis – O Fortuna

Recently my colleague Michelle got me thinking about oldschool techno, of which it turns out we’re both a fan.
So I decided to look up one of the first underground tracks that I’d ever heard, thanks to Z95.3’s Saturday night radio show, “Club 95”, way back in 1992: Apotheosis’ O’Fortuna. From a user on discogs, here’s the story behind the track:
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richardfloor – 24-Nov-04 01:05 AM
The famous of O’Fortuna track by Apotheosis..maybe one of my favorites of all times and lot of people love it also.. It’s so popular all over the world…..We all know it was banned …deleted out of the market because of the illegal use sample of the classical gospel music carmina burana originally writen and produced by CARL ORFF.. This o fortuna track is just a piece of art … back in 1991 when I first heard it, i was so impress of how smart techno house music can be ..This track is just amazing and is also a collectors item since is totally out of print and hard to find this days!!
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It’s a great track, and I have fond memories of wearing out a crap 60-min Memorex tape I recorded it onto with the family ghetto blaster.
And, lo and behold, the CD single is on eBay. And there’s an item in excellent condition with no bids on it and with a starting price of $9.99! What’s up with that? It had five days left on it, so I was kind of iffy about whether I wanted to alert people that it was out there by bidding on it (that’s a lot of time during which you can get outbid!), but I figured: “what the hell” and plunked in $20 as my max-bid. For those of you who haven’t eBay’ed before, that means, eBay will auto-bid for me in $1.00 increments up to $20. For example, if someone else bids $15, eBay will automatically bid $16 on my behalf. If they had entered $25, however, I would be “outbid”, and would have to place another bid, higher than $25, in order to win the item.
So, that was last night. Today, I got an email notice: “You have been outbid.”
You’d better believe it. I checked the listing immediately after receiving the outbid notice… it’s now at $36!!! Gah. Curious to see where bidding will end up.