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The technique was great, and they sampled her voice in the chorus, whilst mixing and scratching their DJ decks over the top of her voice. I was excited to hear how they would perform MMX The Social Song, as the chorus is sung on the recording by online competition winner Fox Lima. The acoustics of the venue were spot on, and the sound reverberated off of every surface. Seeing The Enigma perform live was an awesome experience, and hearing the albums that I’ve listened to over and over again come to life was incredible. The almost trance like chilled out music was original, and attracted interest from inquisitive musicians and enthusiasts alike. The new age electronica sound of The Enigma is somewhat took off in the 90s, where their experimental album MCMXC a.D went international and received 57 platinum awards worldwide. He’s still making records today, and hopefully that inspires many more to do the same. Artists who share his uncompromising vision and willingness to experiment with everything from the sound of the music to the very way one releases it. To this day he’s still one of the biggest names in experimental music and the truth of the matter is we need more artists like him around. They are still exactly what he wants to make whether they’re the Carmina Burana sampling “The Screen Behind The Mirror” or the more pop oriented “Voyageur”. His follow up albums may not have sold what the first two did but in a way, it doesn’t matter. Having already proved himself a talent that could take a deeply uncommercial genre of music and make whole albums of it sell millions of copies the world over, along with singles like "Sadeness (Part I)" topping the charts wherever they go, Cretu had nothing else to prove whatsoever. In 1993, the project’s second album “The Cross Of Changes” was released, and was received just as well commercially, going on to sell six million copies in a single year. What’s more, it wasn’t a flash in the pan. The album was released on Virgin Records and Enigma became the biggest selling artist on their roster in the year of its release, 1990. He released a number of albums, his first coming in 1979 but commercial success eluded him.Īs the 1980’s were coming to a close he feared that his ideas were drying up, so for the last eight months of 1990 he poured all of his ideas into the first Enigma album, which would be titled “MCMXC a.D.”, and was rewarded with worldwide commercial success that only the naïve could have reasonably hoped for. Originally a classical musician by trade, he realised that his true passion lay in pop music, so he sold his piano and by the time he was 21 he was releasing his first solo singles. What’s even weirder? It worked.Ĭretu was born in Romania on the 18th of May 1957. Cretu, on the other hand, decided to make his last stand with a downtempo, experimental electronica album under the name Enigma. Y’see, the bands I mentioned before made a leap for rock stardom with an album of fantastic tunes with choruses the size of continents. However, Michael Cretu probably had the tougher job out of all of them. Franz Ferdinand, for example were its members final attempt to make a career out of rock and roll before consigning it to an eternal hobby status.
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A surprising number of bands have actually made it on the back of this. The failed songwriter putting together a band for one last-ditch attempt at stardom, giving themselves a year to make it and throwing everything they have at it. There are fewer more romantic stories in pop music than that of the last stand.