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#TRACKS ON NEW ENIGMA ALBUM MOVIE#
It’s no surprise that adult movie genius Michael Ninn used Enigma-inspired soundtracks on all his astonishing early Nineties movies like Sex and Latex. Crude as it sounds, it does sometimes feel as though these are essentially albums to fuck to, providing you have an adventurous approach to sex. The first album, MCMXC AD, was a popular soundtrack to fetish parties in the early Nineties – no surprise, given the nature of the recording – and there’s a sensuality running through each recording. Instead, the Enigma albums seem to exist in their own unique space, where they allow the listener to float away into a different world, very much at the fore of your consciousness. They are a curious conundrum – not records you can ideally split into individual tracks on an iPod shuffle, not something you might listen to in the way you would a rock or pop record, but also not the ambient background music of the new age or chill-out album. And while each album is made up of several tracks, they are all really single pieces – musically, if not lyrically conceptual and closer to film soundtracks than any sort of traditional album, with the tracks seamlessly flowing into each other.
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But that’s not so awful – each stands up on its own as a solid piece of music. Instead, you become acutely aware of their similarities in a way that would still be obvious, but wouldn’t be a critical issue, if you were playing these over a few weeks, let alone hearing them over a thirteen-year period as they were originally released.Īdmittedly, many of these albums could have been recording in the same sessions. It’s a problem simply because it becomes hard to judge each of these albums as a separate piece. So the fact that you are essentially hearing variations on the same theme over five LPs becomes a lot more obvious here that it might do with some rock band who already sound like a whole bunch of their contemporaries. Most bands, of course, have a sound that they might only vary from to slight degrees, but few of those bands have such an immediately distinctive and recognisable sound as this act, less a band and more a creative project for producer Michael Cretu. The problem with reviewing five Enigma albums back to back is that after a while, they all begin to blur into one. Exploring the erotic, hypnotic and chilled-out ambience of Enigma.