Enigma "Sadeness Part 1"... the song that will never fucking die...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdylh210Ho

I was listening to an apple radio "lisa gerrard & similar artists" station and the intro to the album was one of the tracks, which kinda highlights how auto-generated "stations" are inevitably gonna fuck up (the first track on MCMXD being a spoken "relax and listen to this album" thing, very of its day)

the specific nostalgia of the techno-dance-electronic music of this era is incredibly rich and also beyond that the record was always a very cool pop record

now playing: the rest of MCMXC in a dark hotel where I've been living for a week

I recently became aware of the Sarah MacLachlan collected dance remixes album, which is not quite that specific nostalgia (in either time or affect), but also not a million miles away. Someone more knowledgeable than me could probably trace some throughlines.

The Sarah McLachlan/Delirium track is the exact vibe of the first Enigma album imo, if many years later

Oh wow you're so right! I think I had only ever heard the epic trance remix of that one, but the original hits

now playing: the rest of MCMXC in a dark hotel where I've been living for a week

A fine approach. And it is a good album. I stand by my old AMG review from the late 90s. (I think that and the Enya reviews I did flummoxed a few folks back then but time has further justified my thoughts.)

Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, dancing nude like Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill.

One of my favorite memories is closing all the shades and playing this album in the dark while my friends and I laid on the carpet of my parents’ family room. No drugs were involved.

Right before Delerium went the full McLachlan there was a song on Semantic Spaces, "Flatlands," that was uhhh a bit more than just "inspired by" that Sadeness sound. Love it, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PABYxXkCJUg

Probably the origin of my love of pan flute/pan pipes in techno