You guys are listening to Sadeness? Awesome! I still remember when it came out. Gregorian chants, cool beats, French whispers, heavy breathing…what more could you want?
I was in the Navy when this album came out in the early 90's. I fell asleep to this album nearly every night while underway. To this day, every time I listen to this I'm transported back to the ocean in my mind.
Same here. Only I was at NAS-Memphis going to A-school (AT) when my roommate first introduced me to it. I told him it sounded like soft core porno music which he didn't get... which I still think it does after all these years. I wish I could thank him for introducing me to it.
Enigma is the musical project of producer Michael Cretu in which his wife, the German singer Sandra, actively participated (she is the voice of Enigma and chanted lyrics in French). The topics covered in the songs often revolved around sex and religion. The song Sadeness, for example, refers to the "Marquis de Sade" who was a libertine. Enigma is at the origin of the musical movement called new-age which will be born in the 90s and produced 8 albums between 1990 and 2016.
I was dating this girl who asked me to go to a yoga class with her. I had never been to one but I went along just to see what it would be like (and because I liked her). Anyway they played this song during the cool down, meditation portion of the class. I really liked it and went to the instructor after class to get the artist's name and then bought the CD. I still have the CD but that girl I went with has been long gone. :)
With most of Enigma you don't try to understand it you just let it wash over you and you float away into your own mind, I find it incredibly relaxing and calming
This song used a sample of Gregorian Chant (mostly Latin sung by the Roman Catholic church and not set to music) from the 1976 album Paschale Mysterium by the German choir Capella Antiqua München. The chant is mostly "Procedamus in pace!" (Let us proceed in peace). The vocals were at first used without permission and a lawsuit followed in 1994 and was settled by compensation.
Only used by the Gregoian monks, not the entirety of the Roman Catholic Church. Other sects of monks do have lesser known, though very similar styling.
@@PanglossDr Well yes it is, Roman Catholic Church, that's what it's called for 400 years or so. I think in English this term isn't used very often but it's synonymous with Catholic Church.
@@DerEchteBold I have been a member since I was born and can assure you that I have only ever been a member of the Catholic Church. I would remind you that catholic means universal so roman universal is a bit senseless. This is an incorrect term invented by Anglicans who call themselves Anglican Catholic. This is to pretend they are really Catholic. The had to invent Roman Catholic as a term to distinguish the real Catholic church.
@@PanglossDr In German it's the official term, in English it's mentioned as an alternative to 'Catholic Church', I looked it up. And although it came up after the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (I found no mention of the Anglicans), the Catholic Church apparently uses this term nowadays for some purposes. If you start getting pedantic about the original meaning of words and how they're used now you won't have time for much else.
This song peaked at 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Came out in 1990. I believe it's talking about the MArquis of Sade, ie, the person who "invented" sadism.
Enigma was a project of Romanian-German Producer/Singer Michael Cretu (Mihai Crețu) in which he started in a new age worldbeat style with his first and third albums but progressed into more ethnic and cultural sounds, then more electronic, then pop, opera, rap and even dubstep. He had 8 Enigma albums in total, but released other solo and group projects as well as being a producer for artists and bands too. He produced many of his former wife Sandra (Lauer) Cretu's initial major solo singles (after she left the group Arabesque, which was huge in Japan and Russia), before she became one of the major vocalists within the Enigma project. Other main vocalists were Louisa Stanley, Ruth-Ann Boyle, Andru Donalds , although a few others were also used. He produced all of Sandra's 11 albums from 1985-2002. I was and still am a massive Sandra fan, and collected everything and anything connected to Sandra, Michael, Hubert Kah, Cretu and Thiers etc.
Bought the album because of this single, it was like nothing we had heard before and it took you on a musical journey. One of my stepping stones into Ambient and other electronic music in the early 90s. Listen to Papua New Guinea by The Future Sound of London... the computer brought a lot innovation to music.
From enigma "Mea Culpa" goes in the same instrumental/chant direction, but i would more recommend "Return to Innocence" as it has far more of a pop song with only a few new age vibes. One of the enigma componist/producer married a german singer named Sandra and wrote songs for her which would fit the channel probably more and are worth checking out like "Maria Magdalena", "In the heat of the night" and "Hiroshima" (very emotional). Later on she stopped as Sandra to only sing for his project and both really got into new age/esoteric, but then the music got difficult to listen without the right substances and they become less and less popular. You can already put that song in the line of the new age/ esoteric direction.
This is NEW AGE (not to be confused with new wave/post-punk) music, mixed with worldbeat/ world music (musical style/elements from other countries) , folk music. Electronica, trip hop. With some religious chants. It's chill, relaxing, late night interactions with the significant other (lol), meditating, slow dance music. Enigma (German group) was very popular during the '90s and early '00s even in the US. They had some hit songs and videos on MTV and radio. Yall should have watched the video! They are nice. Other good ones are "Gravity of Love" , "Mea Culp", "Push the Limits", "Return to Innocence" (another huge hit, samples from a Taiwanese song) . Bands similar and in the same genre to check out as well: Royksopp (2000s, from Norway), Enya (late '80s, '90s, early '00s. Irish), Deep Forest (French, '90s/'00s), and others. Need more NEW AGE , worldbeat music on the international streams.
Yeah, she misidentified a song as being New Age a few weeks ago. Enigma, Deep Forest, Enya, Cocteau Twins,... Reminds me of walking through Sharper Image shops and looking at the gadgets while this type of music was playing in the background.
Mixture of gregorian chant and modern beat was trendy in the 1990s. It refers to the marquis de Sade, aka the divine marquis, an french author of extreme libertine novels in the 18th century. The term 'sadism' is derived from his name.
The Celts Enya album puts you out of your world when listening to it like this one. My 15 years old of age in 1990. That drum beat as well as Tom's Diner and so many other songs...
This was very much one of those mood-altering albums - whether you were focusing on something, relaxing in a dark room, or focusing with someone else in a dark room.
@@shermanwest3168 The best memories of my life in terms of emotions such as passion, lust, ecstasy, eroticism but also relaxation, are associated with this band..Αnd a particular girl..
Lights way down low, maybe some candlelight, by yourself, or with your partner and just let the music take over your mind, to transport you wherever you want. This music is definitely a mood. I love it. I'm pleased you've happened on it and are willing to give it a go 💜
I'm working for years to make a revival, and i'm currently working on creating similar music, and i have 2 tracks on development, but it takes time and i don't have much free time. I'm doing also a research of similar music, and trust me, there is a lot of artists that are as good as Enigma (like Erotic dreams, Paul Hardcastle, and many others. Just type on youtube the words "sensual relaxing & dreamy" and you will see one playlist or two with similar music ...some may be a bit different, but still good in the overall style.
One of the lucky things to growing up in europe is ENIGMA , ERA & GREGORIAN .......We just cant live without listening to their masterpieces , Gregorian chants ......the type of music is called .......NEW AGE and it is the music which takes you from this world and brings you in the world of souls the world of magic .......you must hearing it only when you are alone and better time is sunset
It's a sample of Gregorian Chant - sung by monks in monasteries with no musical backing ( Gregorian Chant was big at the end of the 80s ) - the backing track is basically a mix of trance and tribal hip hop . This was MASSIVE when it was released in 1990 - it shot to No1 in 14 countries and topped the Dance Chart in the U.S.. I would strongly recommend you do a reaction to " RETURN TO INNOCENCE " with the VIDEO as it's probably more your type of thing ( especialy Brad's )
When this album came out, that song was EVERYWHERE from radio to Mtv to movies. Most people had never heard anything like it (or afterwards, for that matter). Personally, it drew me into the realm of world trance music. Great stuff!
I finally found them again, and now I know where my love for gregorian chanting is from... originally heard this as a child from my mothers music. I knew i recognised the gregorian chants but couldnt think where.... it was so familiar.. then I found enigma again and knew it had come from them as the my only 4 favourite chants seem to be the same as the ones featured in enigma lol
This brings back memories. Used to go to my friends house sometimes, we'd make a fresh pot of coffee and have a few bottles of beer ready, fresh packs of cigarettes. Dim the lights, crank up the stereo, press play on the CD player and listen to the whole album in one go. Back then when I actively took time to listen to a whole album. And yes, the songs were played on the radio all the time and in discos too when it was cooldown time before the faster techno tracks came pumping again. Good times in the 90s! 80s were great too but that's another story 😉 Edit: Concerning your comment about church music - have you ever thought about how people from Europe reacted to Gospel music from the USA? That was definitely not the kind of singing done in churches over here back then! 😄
In an enigma there is no single explanation, everything about it is both of 2 opposite sides. Both good and evil, which is it, you can't decide which way the scale tips.
Sadeness, refers to Marquis de Sade, from the late 1700s to the early 1800s, French revolution times. It is from him and his title we get words like Sadomasochism, his writings were erotic, but he was into cruelty, ended his days in an insane asylum, perhaps for insanity, perhaps because he was also very blasphamous against the church. Much of their music has this airy mystical sound, a very similar song to this, sort of part 2, is "The princiiples of lust", maybe don't do the official video but it worth a listen. One of my favourites from them would be "Return to Innocence", much less provocative.
This song was HUGE! The entire Album was - there was no club or moody bar that was NOT playing Enigma in the early 90's. Enigma AND PORTISHEAD were THE Make-out Albums
He is meditating. Fully in a different world truly where the song takes .. And i agree the song is not for a church but they had something mysterious in their music where takes our soul to a peaceful place
This was very, very popular at the time. The style of music was also great to hear what your new CD player could do! The group 'Deep Forest' were also very popular not long after, with a somewhat similar style.
Enigma, hell yea! New Age music, trip hop. Like the artists, Enya, Delerium, and Deep Forest. We GenX loved this stuff. Enigma was a good group for the '90s and '00s. Their music videos are trippy too. "Return to Innocence" was another great one. Church like chants, but not for church. I used to get lucky with the chicks to this kind of music back in the days 😆. This is like chill, dark night club dance music.
Enigma was a musical project by Michael Cretu (that released also solo records like "Samurai") and the female voice you hear in this song belongs to Sandra, that was a solo singer too (I the heat of the night, Maria Magdalena and many more hits) and the direct rival of Madonna back in the 80s.
I don't know who's recommended your stuff, but being someone who graduated in91, your on point! I was a punk, metal, goth, hip-hop, enthusiast and I jam this shit while I was tattooing!
Yeah, count me in in encouraging you to listen to Return to Innocence. It sounds a lot like this song blended with a pop song, and it was a major radio hit.
the song is about how LOVE (sex) and FAITH tear at you, the sides of us all take us in different directions... parts are in Latin and others in French, the two languages most associated with those diverse thoughts
Its intresting. Abour the time there was a breef moment of about 4 or 5 years erotic movies was so mainstream they was shown on network TV... of cause me beong 13 never saw them once... anyway, some part pf the song is really simular to the leed music of one series.
This is one of those songs where you should just close your eyes and let yourself float away. As I remember those years around 1990 it was a period with great experiment with different music genres and a lot of world music hitting - like Era-Ameno, Ofra Haza-Im Nin Alu, Deep Forest-Sweet Lullaby, Khaled-Didi and a bunch of stuff with Youssou N'Dour and so on and so fort. A lot of exciting stuff to listening to from that specific period.
No. Enigma is the type of music that your mom and dad plays when they're alone and you're at your friend's house. And 9 months later your baby sister is born.
This was one album I had, all my friends wanted to borrow so they could copy it. They never heard anything like it before. Because nothing like it had ever been released before.
I Just want to Thank the producers of this music. This music transcends all the barriers of time and language. Such a masterpiece confronts you to the deepest emotions, it brings beauty from your sadness.
Lights off. Just candles and incense laying in a easy chair with headphones on and just meditating and zoning out. This is just a banger. I call this Gregorian chant with disco monks lol 😆 always love this group and this song
Takes me back to my childhood! The panflute is amazing and i agree with some comments, if you cant sleep just turn this musicon and youll sleep like a baby! Great choice to react to, guys :)
Another artist you might wanna check out sometime is Enya... She's an Irish singer and the music is beautiful. "Orinoco Flow" is probably the most well-known of her tracks
I went to college 1500 miles away from home and drove myself there each semester. This was one of the tapes I had on replay, over and over. Made the miles fly by. GREAT album!!
30+ years ago.. listening to this all whacked up on scooby snacks..i thought when i get old and haven't got long to live..... i'll bang this on full volume and take the final step... nothing come close since... this will be my final farewell..hope i can afford internet and can move to use my keyboard ..still healthy atm.... don't worry x
I am french living in Lyon and this song was a big hit here in 1990. I was 14 and was puzzled by this german band using french and quoting Marquis de Sade. He was a 18th century french writer known for erotic & pornographic novels and he's the origin of the french word "Sadique" which means sadistic.
It was just a song of the "new age" genre, and a part of the lyrics is in french language. Sandra, the singer is born not far away, where I was born (Germany), it is just a sound and genre for relaxing, and vibes, meditation, the lyrics is not that important. Just listen and relax.
In some variations of this song, the beginning of the song has a female voice say "Turn off the lights, take a deep breathe, and relax". Awesome song! A Canadian band " Delerium" had similar back beats.
1)Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis De Sade was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a largely imagined libertine sexuality….. 2)Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu.Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra,before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. The album remains Enigma's most successful, helped by the international hit single "Sadeness (Part I)", which sold twelve million units alone.According to Cretu, the inspiration for the creation of the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey "the old rules and habits" and presented a new form of artistic expression with mystic and experimental components.
OMG! Lex you crack me up 😂😂 When you said imagine the priests with the robes just gettin down.. (with the little quirky dance) You’re too cute lmaoo I love you guys keep em coming I love watching your videos.
It doesn't make much sense to comment since they don't seem to read comments, but hey. Gregorian chant was the type of chant practiced by monks in medieval times. They still sing it In several churches. In the 90s, surprisingly, some record of this type of music was a worldwide hit. I don't remember this song and I don't know if it was before or after, but in any case it was around those years, and more strange fusion projects came out that worked well. I remember Afro Celt Sound System and above all another that mixed native American songs, Sacred Spirit. It's not that I followed that kind of music very much, but it was played on the radio here in Spain.
I own a cassette of Enigma's MCMXC, it's name in roman numerals, since 1990 when it came out, I recomend you listen to the side one completly for a full experience... "Good evening, this is the voice of enigma...", you can bring some wine if you like and., for an extra something, Dime the lights...
It's New Age genre not religious as such. It was a very popular genre back in the 90s in Europe especially, and Enigma had a lot of decent hits. Enya is another famous New Age artist worth checking out.
I love Enigma and this song almost when I was young, 20 and I was going to visit west america my guide asked me to translate the world of the song... I couldn't explain that "Sade" was a libertian
I just remember being on the dance floor when this would come on... Ancient chants, set to a totally sensuous beat... gentle strobe lights... It was almost primitive in a sense, dancing to this.. so awesome...
Ooohhh SNAP, you got into Enigma!! Looots of good songs to sit back with lights low, chillin, smokin a blunt, and just letting yourself get absorbed in the sounds. Oh, and the song has to do with the Marquis De Sade...look into it ;)
This stuff was cool as shit back in the day. It was fucking beautiful just to listen to, for one thing, but it also introduced a lot of folk to Gregorian chant, and even the works of Sade. Crazy.
I absolutely love Enigma. When I was single and practically homeless, I used to listen to this every night as I went to bed. It touched something deep inside me and I didn't even know the words.
I remember my mom telling how she was interested in Gregorian chants, which became very popular at that time around '94, and was looking for some CDs of that music in a record store. A young clerk offered his help and he directed her to this when she described what she wanted. She was not happy when she got it home to listen to and promptly returned it.
@@sergiodavila5269 No, she actually just wanted Gregorian chants and didn't have the slightest bit of interest is some new age electronic music regardless whether there was any heavy breathing.
@@edwardlongshanks827 cool….one more crazy story. My mom was into workout music, but hated black metal or any type of satánic music. I put on “Very Groovy Boots” by Electric Hellfire Club & she started doing her workout routine. Don’t we love messing with our moms?!?!! 🤣🤣
@@sergiodavila5269 My mom liked a lot of different music though what she was willing to listen to varied quite a bit depending on her mood. She liked ZZ Top, Bruce Springsteen, and other rock music. She also really liked bands, such as the Gypsy Kings, whose music made her want to get up and dance. She grew up listening to big band music and popular music of the 40s and 50s.
This song was the vibe from the first time I heard it back in the 90s. Lyrics don’t matter for this one. I am windows down, bumping this morning. It’s a great start to the day!
I think this song is really a challenge to Americans not only because of their language barrier (French, Latin), but also because of it's content and the meaning of "Sadeness". Sadeness is not the french equivalent of sadness (which is tristesse). It is more a french word puzzle using the english word sadness in a mix it with the french novelist Marquis de Sade from which we derive the word "sadism". The lyrics is about the meaning of sadness. The question is if sadness is diabolic or devine and the song does'nt give the answer. If someone lose his love the result is often sadness. But according to Marquis de Sade is the sadness of love part of the game because in every relationship one of the partners plays the cruel part and the other the victim part and both partners should enjoy this game. So, it is a quite difficult content and it is packed into a mysterious shape of music in the scenario of a typical katholic sacrament or a sacred act. I can imagine that many Americans can't feel into such kind of setting because of the widely spread protestantism and pietism in the US. They will be reminded on a pagan ritual and they are quite right, because lot of the katholic ritus is derived from pagan Roman ceremonies.
You guys are listening to Sadeness? Awesome! I still remember when it came out. Gregorian chants, cool beats, French whispers, heavy breathing…what more could you want?
It to stop!
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I used Gregorian chants in order to learn Latin and it worked also my Girl is from France so I speak french Aussi...
I was in the Navy when this album came out in the early 90's. I fell asleep to this album nearly every night while underway. To this day, every time I listen to this I'm transported back to the ocean in my mind.
Same here. Only I was at NAS-Memphis going to A-school (AT) when my roommate first introduced me to it.
I told him it sounded like soft core porno music which he didn't get... which I still think it does after all these years. I wish I could thank him for introducing me to it.
I was on a college trip to Europe in January, 1991 and MTV Europe played the hell out of this.
So my uncle clearly left out some stories when he used to work on a nuclear sub, lol
Was stationed in Rota Spain when this came out.
That's an awesome insight into your life 😃
Enigma is the musical project of producer Michael Cretu in which his wife, the German singer Sandra, actively participated (she is the voice of Enigma and chanted lyrics in French).
The topics covered in the songs often revolved around sex and religion. The song Sadeness, for example, refers to the "Marquis de Sade" who was a libertine. Enigma is at the origin of the musical movement called new-age which will be born in the 90s and produced 8 albums between 1990 and 2016.
New age was around well before the 90s.
The namesake of Sadism and Sadistic
The complete opposites of energy in the song and the meaning of the song.
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@@TheOneTrueChris Enigma has greatly popularized the new-age
I was dating this girl who asked me to go to a yoga class with her. I had never been to one but I went along just to see what it would be like (and because I liked her). Anyway they played this song during the cool down, meditation portion of the class. I really liked it and went to the instructor after class to get the artist's name and then bought the CD. I still have the CD but that girl I went with has been long gone. :)
Enigma will stay with you a lifetime
That girl you dated was an angel that took you to wonderful music. You may be forever gratful to her!
She's gone to heaven or hll?
@@Asiansxsymbol No we drifted apart. I would not have added a smiley face if she had past away.
With most of Enigma you don't try to understand it you just let it wash over you and you float away into your own mind, I find it incredibly relaxing and calming
Exactly. It's a feeling, it's a state of mind.
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This song used a sample of Gregorian Chant (mostly Latin sung by the Roman Catholic church and not set to music) from the 1976 album Paschale Mysterium by the German choir Capella Antiqua München. The chant is mostly "Procedamus in pace!" (Let us proceed in peace). The vocals were at first used without permission and a lawsuit followed in 1994 and was settled by compensation.
Only used by the Gregoian monks, not the entirety of the Roman Catholic Church. Other sects of monks do have lesser known, though very similar styling.
What is Roman Catholic? There is no such thing.
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Well yes it is, Roman Catholic Church, that's what it's called for 400 years or so.
I think in English this term isn't used very often but it's synonymous with Catholic Church.
@@DerEchteBold I have been a member since I was born and can assure you that I have only ever been a member of the Catholic Church.
I would remind you that catholic means universal so roman universal is a bit senseless.
This is an incorrect term invented by Anglicans who call themselves Anglican Catholic. This is to pretend they are really Catholic. The had to invent Roman Catholic as a term to distinguish the real Catholic church.
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In German it's the official term, in English it's mentioned as an alternative to 'Catholic Church', I looked it up.
And although it came up after the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (I found no mention of the Anglicans), the Catholic Church apparently uses this term nowadays for some purposes.
If you start getting pedantic about the original meaning of words and how they're used now you won't have time for much else.
Return to innocence is probably their most popular track and would be a good follow up if you do one (has 100m+ views)
Agree 100%
Need to react to video. The only way to return is to turn back time.... best video ever - to the point.
💯 correct!!!
Yes, but the official video.
I used to love listening to that all high in weed... LOL..
This was a big hit in the 90s
Simply put, in the 90s people liked songs like this as quiet background music. What they did while it played is up to your imagination!
I do it nowadays too...
I had this album when I was in my 20s & yeah it was great for intimate get togethers
This does get the mood going ngl. It's raw and sexy. That said tho Deftones does it for me more. Entombed in particular🥵
This song wouldn't be so bad with a nice sound system or headphones and molly. Lol
I wish some clubs would remix this and play it while I dance on the floor high on molly. 😁😆
I was a little surprised to see y’all listening to this. Enigma is a bit out of your wheelhouse! Great stuff!
This song peaked at 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Came out in 1990. I believe it's talking about the MArquis of Sade, ie, the person who "invented" sadism.
de Sade,but I got you.
It also peaked at #67 R&B.
this was massive.....because it was soooo different....i still have my vinyl 45 of this
Wow, talk about a blast from the past... This takes me back to my High School years.
This whole album is a masterpiece. A totally original concept and so atmospheric. Always gives me chills.
Enigma was a project of Romanian-German Producer/Singer Michael Cretu (Mihai Crețu) in which he started in a new age worldbeat style with his first and third albums but progressed into more ethnic and cultural sounds, then more electronic, then pop, opera, rap and even dubstep. He had 8 Enigma albums in total, but released other solo and group projects as well as being a producer for artists and bands too. He produced many of his former wife Sandra (Lauer) Cretu's initial major solo singles (after she left the group Arabesque, which was huge in Japan and Russia), before she became one of the major vocalists within the Enigma project. Other main vocalists were Louisa Stanley, Ruth-Ann Boyle, Andru Donalds , although a few others were also used. He produced all of Sandra's 11 albums from 1985-2002.
I was and still am a massive Sandra fan, and collected everything and anything connected to Sandra, Michael, Hubert Kah, Cretu and Thiers etc.
Bought the album because of this single, it was like nothing we had heard before and it took you on a musical journey. One of my stepping stones into Ambient and other electronic music in the early 90s. Listen to Papua New Guinea by The Future Sound of London... the computer brought a lot innovation to music.
Return to innocence was amazing
"Papua New Guinea" by FSOL sampled "Dawn of the Iconoclast" by Dead Can Dance.
From enigma "Mea Culpa" goes in the same instrumental/chant direction, but i would more recommend "Return to Innocence" as it has far more of a pop song with only a few new age vibes.
One of the enigma componist/producer married a german singer named Sandra and wrote songs for her which would fit the channel probably more and are worth checking out like "Maria Magdalena", "In the heat of the night" and "Hiroshima" (very emotional).
Later on she stopped as Sandra to only sing for his project and both really got into new age/esoteric, but then the music got difficult to listen without the right substances and they become less and less popular. You can already put that song in the line of the new age/ esoteric direction.
This is NEW AGE (not to be confused with new wave/post-punk) music, mixed with worldbeat/ world music (musical style/elements from other countries) , folk music. Electronica, trip hop. With some religious chants. It's chill, relaxing, late night interactions with the significant other (lol), meditating, slow dance music. Enigma (German group) was very popular during the '90s and early '00s even in the US. They had some hit songs and videos on MTV and radio. Yall should have watched the video! They are nice. Other good ones are "Gravity of Love" , "Mea Culp", "Push the Limits", "Return to Innocence" (another huge hit, samples from a Taiwanese song) .
Bands similar and in the same genre to check out as well: Royksopp (2000s, from Norway), Enya (late '80s, '90s, early '00s. Irish), Deep Forest (French, '90s/'00s), and others.
Need more NEW AGE , worldbeat music on the international streams.
Yeah, she misidentified a song as being New Age a few weeks ago.
Enigma, Deep Forest, Enya, Cocteau Twins,... Reminds me of walking through Sharper Image shops and looking at the gadgets while this type of music was playing in the background.
It's most certainly not New Age.
@@johnstjohn6658 True lol
Mixture of gregorian chant and modern beat was trendy in the 1990s. It refers to the marquis de Sade, aka the divine marquis, an french author of extreme libertine novels in the 18th century. The term 'sadism' is derived from his name.
The Celts Enya album puts you out of your world when listening to it like this one. My 15 years old of age in 1990. That drum beat as well as Tom's Diner and so many other songs...
Ah yes, the early 90's - when Latin Gregorian chant met downtempo, also known as "new age".
When Enigma hit the scene they exploded!!!! I love them!!! Best back ground, relaxation music....them and Deep Forrest.
This was very much one of those mood-altering albums - whether you were focusing on something, relaxing in a dark room, or focusing with someone else in a dark room.
Hell yes. Great for focusing on someone else. Well put.
@@shermanwest3168 The best memories of my life in terms of emotions such as passion, lust, ecstasy, eroticism but also relaxation, are associated with this band..Αnd a particular girl..
@@diakojim1977 I always loved the mix of bass on this album. Underrated for sure.
@@shermanwest3168 I love the Platinum-Collection of ENIGMA and the active subwoofer it was worth the money just for this..
@@diakojim1977 Oh, never caught that one. I bet it's great.
Lights way down low, maybe some candlelight, by yourself, or with your partner and just let the music take over your mind, to transport you wherever you want. This music is definitely a mood. I love it. I'm pleased you've happened on it and are willing to give it a go 💜
Definitely plenty of babies made to this track
Lights off , in bed with headphones and just drift away . Love it.
Enigma is all about the mood, the feeling, and the vibe. It's great music to relax to.
That beautiful 90s mid tempo dance beat. With all this 90s revival, why does this not make a return? So sexy.
I'm working for years to make a revival, and i'm currently working on creating similar music, and i have 2 tracks on development, but it takes time and i don't have much free time. I'm doing also a research of similar music, and trust me, there is a lot of artists that are as good as Enigma (like Erotic dreams, Paul Hardcastle, and many others. Just type on youtube the words "sensual relaxing & dreamy" and you will see one playlist or two with similar music ...some may be a bit different, but still good in the overall style.
One of the lucky things to growing up in europe is ENIGMA , ERA & GREGORIAN .......We just cant live without listening to their masterpieces , Gregorian chants ......the type of music is called .......NEW AGE and it is the music which takes you from this world and brings you in the world of souls the world of magic .......you must hearing it only when you are alone and better time is sunset
It's a sample of Gregorian Chant - sung by monks in monasteries with no musical backing ( Gregorian Chant was big at the end of the 80s ) - the backing track is basically a mix of trance and tribal hip hop . This was MASSIVE when it was released in 1990 - it shot to No1 in 14 countries and topped the Dance Chart in the U.S.. I would strongly recommend you do a reaction to " RETURN TO INNOCENCE " with the VIDEO as it's probably more your type of thing ( especialy Brad's )
When this album came out, that song was EVERYWHERE from radio to Mtv to movies. Most people had never heard anything like it (or afterwards, for that matter). Personally, it drew me into the realm of world trance music. Great stuff!
Well, Gregorian chants alone are "like it"...I'd have written most people hadn't heard anything like the mix of elements.
I finally found them again, and now I know where my love for gregorian chanting is from... originally heard this as a child from my mothers music. I knew i recognised the gregorian chants but couldnt think where.... it was so familiar.. then I found enigma again and knew it had come from them as the my only 4 favourite chants seem to be the same as the ones featured in enigma lol
This brings back memories. Used to go to my friends house sometimes, we'd make a fresh pot of coffee and have a few bottles of beer ready, fresh packs of cigarettes.
Dim the lights, crank up the stereo, press play on the CD player and listen to the whole album in one go.
Back then when I actively took time to listen to a whole album.
And yes, the songs were played on the radio all the time and in discos too when it was cooldown time before the faster techno tracks came pumping again. Good times in the 90s! 80s were great too but that's another story 😉
Edit: Concerning your comment about church music - have you ever thought about how people from Europe reacted to Gospel music from the USA? That was definitely not the kind of singing done in churches over here back then! 😄
Loved your reaction girl!!!!! I listen to their music on loop every day for the past 3 months 🤣🤣
damn this reminds me of the pure Moods compilation album commercial they played a million times on tv back in the 90's.
i had that CD i listened to it so much lol
In an enigma there is no single explanation, everything about it is both of 2 opposite sides. Both good and evil, which is it, you can't decide which way the scale tips.
What? You guys didn't know that trip hop Gregorian chants were hot for a minute in the early '90s? 😄
Sadeness, refers to Marquis de Sade, from the late 1700s to the early 1800s, French revolution times. It is from him and his title we get words like Sadomasochism, his writings were erotic, but he was into cruelty, ended his days in an insane asylum, perhaps for insanity, perhaps because he was also very blasphamous against the church. Much of their music has this airy mystical sound, a very similar song to this, sort of part 2, is "The princiiples of lust", maybe don't do the official video but it worth a listen. One of my favourites from them would be "Return to Innocence", much less provocative.
The word Masochism comes from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, not Sade. Sadism does. Sade enjoyed causing pain, Sacher-Masoch enjoyed receiving pain.
This song was HUGE! The entire Album was - there was no club or moody bar that was NOT playing Enigma in the early 90's. Enigma AND PORTISHEAD were THE Make-out Albums
He is meditating. Fully in a different world truly where the song takes .. And i agree the song is not for a church but they had something mysterious in their music where takes our soul to a peaceful place
OMG!!!! I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS!!! I've been listening to Enigma for decades. Next you need to listen to "Mea Culpa!"
Do yourselves a favour, one evening turn the lights off light a few candles and play the whole album it's amazing
This was very, very popular at the time. The style of music was also great to hear what your new CD player could do!
The group 'Deep Forest' were also very popular not long after, with a somewhat similar style.
Enigma, hell yea! New Age music, trip hop. Like the artists, Enya, Delerium, and Deep Forest. We GenX loved this stuff. Enigma was a good group for the '90s and '00s. Their music videos are trippy too. "Return to Innocence" was another great one. Church like chants, but not for church. I used to get lucky with the chicks to this kind of music back in the days 😆. This is like chill, dark night club dance music.
It’s very simple. The world needed a song to conceive children to.
I once fell asleep with this track on and had the absolute weirdest dreams of my life.
Enigma was a musical project by Michael Cretu (that released also solo records like "Samurai") and the female voice you hear in this song belongs to Sandra, that was a solo singer too (I the heat of the night, Maria Magdalena and many more hits) and the direct rival of Madonna back in the 80s.
Thank goodness you listened to the short version. The extended version would have REALLY had you raising your eyebrows! LMAO
I listened to this CD so much that I think I wore it out. Perfect chill-out music. Enigma and Enya...
Their albums are pretty incredible. Worth doing a deep dive.
3:33 he was like "wtf?...am i the only one in this?"
It's best to experience this song as a part of a whole - that being the first Enigma album. Listening to it from beginning to end. It's GREAT.
I use to get so high while listening to enigma when I was in high-school. Good times.
I don't know who's recommended your stuff, but being someone who graduated in91, your on point! I was a punk, metal, goth, hip-hop, enthusiast and I jam this shit while I was tattooing!
Yeah, count me in in encouraging you to listen to Return to Innocence. It sounds a lot like this song blended with a pop song, and it was a major radio hit.
the song is about how LOVE (sex) and FAITH tear at you, the sides of us all take us in different directions... parts are in Latin and others in French, the two languages most associated with those diverse thoughts
Its intresting. Abour the time there was a breef moment of about 4 or 5 years erotic movies was so mainstream they was shown on network TV... of cause me beong 13 never saw them once... anyway, some part pf the song is really simular to the leed music of one series.
Sadness is not a French word it sounds like latin but it's gibberish
Love the different sounds of Enigma, I still have 4 of their CDs. This made me want to dig them out again.
This is one of those songs where you should just close your eyes and let yourself float away. As I remember those years around 1990 it was a period with great experiment with different music genres and a lot of world music hitting - like Era-Ameno, Ofra Haza-Im Nin Alu, Deep Forest-Sweet Lullaby, Khaled-Didi and a bunch of stuff with Youssou N'Dour and so on and so fort. A lot of exciting stuff to listening to from that specific period.
THIS.SONG.WAS.EVERYWHERE. It was so big. I think it became totally overplayed, but it was pretty effing cool. One of the soundtracks of my early 20s.
I had the Pure Moods CD back in the 90s that has this song and some other unusual songs. This song hut so hard on a good system.
Love making music par excellence. This and Sade when you want to take your time.
No. Enigma is the type of music that your mom and dad plays when they're alone and you're at your friend's house. And 9 months later your baby sister is born.
This was one album I had, all my friends wanted to borrow so they could copy it. They never heard anything like it before. Because nothing like it had ever been released before.
this was such a huge global smash hit. Enigma had a vey unique sound & sold millions of albums. I think the guy behind it is Romanian
👍😊Yes, Michael Cretu was born in Bucharest, Romania. Austrian mother and Romanian father. More, you can easily find on Wikipedia or Google. 😊🎉
thanks for actually listening and feeling it, not interrupting often. it's song of my childhood. gives me faith and lust everytime i listen.
wow. haven't listened to Enigma in many years. wanna say living in Germany in the mid-'90's. brings back some memories.
I Just want to Thank the producers of this music. This music transcends all the barriers of time and language. Such a masterpiece confronts you to the deepest emotions, it brings beauty from your sadness.
Lights off. Just candles and incense laying in a easy chair with headphones on and just meditating and zoning out. This is just a banger. I call this Gregorian chant with disco monks lol 😆 always love this group and this song
Takes me back to my childhood! The panflute is amazing and i agree with some comments, if you cant sleep just turn this musicon and youll sleep like a baby! Great choice to react to, guys :)
Another artist you might wanna check out sometime is Enya... She's an Irish singer and the music is beautiful. "Orinoco Flow" is probably the most well-known of her tracks
I went to college 1500 miles away from home and drove myself there each semester. This was one of the tapes I had on replay, over and over. Made the miles fly by. GREAT album!!
I'm old. Lol but I used to listen to Pure Moods every mornin while getting ready for school in high school. Loved this jam that was on album.
Been listening to all their albums over 5 years. A great sound.
Probably the most well known modern pop song with Gregorian chants.
they fall into the new age category, and one of the most popular songs from that genre. so, popular but not "pop"
Era - "Ameno" was also very popular in a similar style 😊
Mistic - Glorifica
30+ years ago.. listening to this all whacked up on scooby snacks..i thought when i get old and haven't got long to live..... i'll bang this on full volume and take the final step...
nothing come close since... this will be my final farewell..hope i can afford internet and can move to use my keyboard ..still healthy atm.... don't worry
x
I am french living in Lyon and this song was a big hit here in 1990. I was 14 and was puzzled by this german band using
french and quoting Marquis de Sade.
He was a 18th century french writer known for erotic & pornographic novels and he's the origin of the french word "Sadique" which means sadistic.
It was just a song of the "new age" genre, and a part of the lyrics is in french language. Sandra, the singer is born not far away, where I was born (Germany), it is just a sound and genre for relaxing, and vibes, meditation, the lyrics is not that important. Just listen and relax.
This album was a huge HUGE seller. No, this is not church music. Just monks used as instruments.
I used to listen to this band to relax. It calmed me.
This took me back to Ibiza in the Cafe del Mar at sun rise! Good Times!!
This song is a vibe ngl it like makes you forget your problems
In some variations of this song, the beginning of the song has a female voice say "Turn off the lights, take a deep breathe, and
relax". Awesome song! A Canadian band " Delerium" had similar back beats.
First time I heard this was on CD release in 1989, I was in Hawaii on Vacation, the CD was called Pure Moods I still own it
1)Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis De Sade was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a largely imagined libertine sexuality…..
2)Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu.Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra,before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. The album remains Enigma's most successful, helped by the international hit single "Sadeness (Part I)", which sold twelve million units alone.According to Cretu, the inspiration for the creation of the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey "the old rules and habits" and presented a new form of artistic expression with mystic and experimental components.
In my teens when I felt out of balance I'd take trip and smoke out and for lack of a better term meditate to enigma
OMG! Lex you crack me up 😂😂 When you said imagine the priests with the robes just gettin down.. (with the little quirky dance) You’re too cute lmaoo I love you guys keep em coming I love watching your videos.
It doesn't make much sense to comment since they don't seem to read comments, but hey.
Gregorian chant was the type of chant practiced by monks in medieval times. They still sing it In several churches. In the 90s, surprisingly, some record of this type of music was a worldwide hit.
I don't remember this song and I don't know if it was before or after, but in any case it was around those years, and more strange fusion projects came out that worked well. I remember Afro Celt Sound System and above all another that mixed native American songs, Sacred Spirit. It's not that I followed that kind of music very much, but it was played on the radio here in Spain.
I own a cassette of Enigma's MCMXC, it's name in roman numerals, since 1990 when it came out, I recomend you listen to the side one completly for a full experience... "Good evening, this is the voice of enigma...", you can bring some wine if you like and., for an extra something, Dime the lights...
It's New Age genre not religious as such. It was a very popular genre back in the 90s in Europe especially, and Enigma had a lot of decent hits. Enya is another famous New Age artist worth checking out.
"Watermark" is still a brilliant album. Will listen to it tonight 👍
Prefer engima to enya but she was a gem in her own right
I love Enigma and this song almost when I was young, 20 and I was going to visit west america my guide asked me to translate the world of the song... I couldn't explain that "Sade" was a libertian
I just remember being on the dance floor when this would come on... Ancient chants, set to a totally sensuous beat... gentle strobe lights... It was almost primitive in a sense, dancing to this.. so awesome...
the calm has transferred to me. music is magic
Just some chanting meditations with a 90's dance floor beat
Ooohhh SNAP, you got into Enigma!! Looots of good songs to sit back with lights low, chillin, smokin a blunt, and just letting yourself get absorbed in the sounds.
Oh, and the song has to do with the Marquis De Sade...look into it ;)
This was some Serious baby making music back then. Guarantee it’s someone you know too… Thanks Enigma and Sade.
*Baby making* dying at this but also cant disagree 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You got that right! This was some serious baby-making music!
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Sade was the female vocals on this track?
There's something truly divine about this song. Everything came together to create perfection.
This stuff was cool as shit back in the day. It was fucking beautiful just to listen to, for one thing, but it also introduced a lot of folk to Gregorian chant, and even the works of Sade. Crazy.
I absolutely love Enigma. When I was single and practically homeless, I used to listen to this every night as I went to bed. It touched something deep inside me and I didn't even know the words.
I forgot about this song! Soul 2 Soul next! KEEP ON MOVING!
So many good tunes in the 80s and 90s it’s hard to remember them all 👍👏
I remember my mom telling how she was interested in Gregorian chants, which became very popular at that time around '94, and was looking for some CDs of that music in a record store. A young clerk offered his help and he directed her to this when she described what she wanted.
She was not happy when she got it home to listen to and promptly returned it.
HA!!! Drinks for you.
….must’ve been put off with the heavy breathing halfway thru the song ❤️🔥
@@sergiodavila5269 No, she actually just wanted Gregorian chants and didn't have the slightest bit of interest is some new age electronic music regardless whether there was any heavy breathing.
@@edwardlongshanks827 cool….one more crazy story. My mom was into workout music, but hated black metal or any type of satánic music. I put on “Very Groovy Boots” by Electric Hellfire Club & she started doing her workout routine. Don’t we love messing with our moms?!?!! 🤣🤣
@@sergiodavila5269 My mom liked a lot of different music though what she was willing to listen to varied quite a bit depending on her mood. She liked ZZ Top, Bruce Springsteen, and other rock music. She also really liked bands, such as the Gypsy Kings, whose music made her want to get up and dance. She grew up listening to big band music and popular music of the 40s and 50s.
This song was the vibe from the first time I heard it back in the 90s. Lyrics don’t matter for this one. I am windows down, bumping this morning. It’s a great start to the day!
Enigma is pretty much mood music. Love their stuff. Two of my favorites are Return to Innocence and Indian Chanting.
I think this song is really a challenge to Americans not only because of their language barrier (French, Latin), but also because of it's content and the meaning of "Sadeness". Sadeness is not the french equivalent of sadness (which is tristesse). It is more a french word puzzle using the english word sadness in a mix it with the french novelist Marquis de Sade from which we derive the word "sadism".
The lyrics is about the meaning of sadness. The question is if sadness is diabolic or devine and the song does'nt give the answer. If someone lose his love the result is often sadness. But according to Marquis de Sade is the sadness of love part of the game because in every relationship one of the partners plays the cruel part and the other the victim part and both partners should enjoy this game.
So, it is a quite difficult content and it is packed into a mysterious shape of music in the scenario of a typical katholic sacrament or a sacred act. I can imagine that many Americans can't feel into such kind of setting because of the widely spread protestantism and pietism in the US. They will be reminded on a pagan ritual and they are quite right, because lot of the katholic ritus is derived from pagan Roman ceremonies.