Enigma - The Fall of a Rebel Angel

1. Circle Eight (Feat. Nanuk)

2. The Omega Point

3. Diving

4. The Die Is Cast (Feat. Mark Josher)

5. Mother (Feat. Anggun)

6. Angus Dei

7. Sadeness (Part II) (Feat. Anggun)

8. Lost In Nothingness

9. Oxygen Red (Feat. Anggun)

10. Confession of the Mind

11. Absolvo

12. Amen (Feat. Aquillo)

http://www.enigmaspace.com/newalbum

https://www.youtube.com/user/EnigmaSpace/videos

https://soundcloud.com/enigmaspace

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I didn't really enjoy the track on the first listen but it definitely grew on me quite a bit, though I'm not too sure about the vocals near the end.

 mediocre and pedestrian come to mind. (i don't normally mess up release threads with my mean spiritedness but i figured that noone would mind if i bashed enigma that they'd be nobody's sacred cow).

  On 10/12/2016 at 12:31 AM, delet... said:

 mediocre and pedestrian come to mind. (i don't normally mess up release threads with my mean spiritedness but i figured that noone would mind if i bashed enigma that they'd be nobody's sacred cow).

The first album was pretty strong from what I remember but everything else was really meh. This is pretty good by Enigma standards IMO but that's not saying too much.

it's a bit cheez now but i still play it now and again. enter th time machine and we used to sit in th cars and listen to MCMXC a.D on drugs for hours. usually with orb, mom, 808state and 242 sandwiches and maybe skinny puppy tracs etc etc..

i probably shouldn't  even try this honestly.. it might poison th past, no?

 Not really. It pretty much sounds like what you'd expect. the same flavour range. Won't ruin any positive memories you have of the outfit.

Yeah MCMXCaD is pretty good, definitely daft in places but quite a strong atmosphere. The other three 90s albums have their moments but are too heavy on the pseudo-spiritual stuff. The three after that were absurdly bland though, just really dull downtempo stuff without any identity. This album seems to be returning to sampling religious music, and atmospheric stuff again - I liked the samples of the tracks on the website. But then I heard Sadeness Part II and really really cringed. Really embarrassing. The Bach sample is so fucking cheesy, even by Enigma standards.

I always preferred Deep Forest to Enigma, but my brother played the shit out of MCMXC A.D. back when it came out.

This is the only Enigma you need 

I didn't even know Enigma was still around!

To be fair, this is the first album in eight years. Fuck knows what Cretu's been doing in the meantime.

I like how they tried to stay relevant by jumping on a trend (trap) that is hopefully dying.

  On 10/12/2016 at 4:29 PM, Joyrex said:

I didn't even know Enigma was still around!

 It is an enigma indeed.

Just listened to the soundcloud previews, I can only agree with the general opinion on here, it sounds so cheesy and lame (and jumping on the bandwagons), the first album was a classic, just the right balance of religous theme and in the zone dance music. I will always defend the first album as being really good no matter how much drivel he churns out after it. A real shame he lost his mojo so quickly, as many do.

  On 10/12/2016 at 12:36 PM, brisk said:

This is the only Enigma you need 

 

I've got that album - The Long Play. Haven't heard it in years but classic 80s synth pop that I'm surprised isn't cited or mentioned more often.

  On 11/11/2016 at 11:32 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 10/12/2016 at 12:36 PM, brisk said:

This is the only Enigma you need 

 

 

 

I've got that album - The Long Play. Haven't heard it in years but classic 80s synth pop that I'm surprised isn't cited or mentioned more often.

 

Sandra is great! She was one of my favourite 80s pop stars. It's a little cheesy of course, but in the best way. She was married to Michael Cretu/Enigma and they worked together on the early Sandra stuff, as well as a few of the Enigma albums.

Almost all the tracks on this anthology are great fun.

Yeah, I actually went up into the attic and went looking for my vinyl of her first album. Damn. It's cheesy but so good. Lovely 80s production with all the classic synths from that time.

I vaguely remember that she was involved with Cretu. You can trace the genesis of Enigma in the Sandra albums and hear the early inspiration for became Cretu's later work. I actually love her first album. It's just got so much 80s synth goodness on it.

German TV, 24th June 1989.

This album has grown me after a few listens. Considering the style is basically what passed for commercial new-age back in 1990, it's kind of weird to hear this now. There are some nice moments on here but that track 'Sadeness (Part II)' is horrific in a way that even eclipses current Machine Drum efforts.

I hope Cretu licensed that Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

Apparently he played it himself. The composition itself is long in the public domain, of course.

I might download this still. The three mid-00s albums were so uninspired but I'd like this to be of the same quality as The Screen Behind the Mirror, at least.

honk if like that song that sounds like you put your thumb up your bumhole in church