I just love the look on younger people's faces when they realize that for about a month's time in the 90s, Gregorion chant was all the rage.

"Good evening. This is the voice of Enigma."

You've just reminded me of the existence of "Return To Innocence", by them and now I'm going to have to go and watch that too. If you return to Enigma at any point I'd recommend going for that one.

Let's just say a lot of lovemaking went on with this album. And their next.

Enigma are a vibe.

Unlike today's music, music back then was unpredictable and new. Mystical, mysterious and spiritual, it was a big club hit. Nothing like it came before or since.

The title of the album is the year 1990 but written in Roman numerals. M =1000 CM = 900 XC = 90

Next-Enigma and “Mea Culpa” or “Return to Innocence”-both are a must! All of the catalogue is well worth a listen

I played this almost non-stop when it came out. Was addicted to its sound.

Enigma and Dead Can Dance are pure musical bliss. A landscape created all their own. Excellent....Cheers!

One of my favorite pieces of music ever ...

Yeah, mystical electronic "new age" is definitely a fun genre of relaxing music. Glad you enjoyed.

Delirium: Silence. Feat. Sarah McLachlan. It's so cool.

This song immediately takes me back to 1990. Enigma's album "Le roi est mort, vive Le roi" is a masterpiece from beginning to end. I would also highly recommend Deep Forest's "Sweet Lullaby from 91/92. Gorgeous stuff.

You have officially been touched by Enigma. Keep listening. What a fun trip you will have.

Enigma is one of my favorite bands! "MCMXC" is Roman numerals for 1990. I hope you keep checking them out.

You can’t go wrong with… Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbal, snare drum, triangle, organ, and strings.

I could listen to this for hours and hours ... it is so hypnotizing !

Congratulations my friend, you just reacted to one of my favorite artists ever! I was introduced to Enigma when I was in my early teens when it released (by my girlfriend at the time). Their albums are designed to listen straight through like a story, very calming and chill and I own most all of them. Also check out Mea Culpa, I Love You I'll Kill You, Dream of the Dolphin , TNT for the Brain and Gravity of Love! There's also Return to Innocence which most people are familiar with and also a great track!

Often what makes a song is the production and the producing there are so many layers to the song it's like a tapestry of awesome

I remember walking to school in 1990/91 with this playing on my Sony Walkman ;) Always love Enigma, they've done some great tracks over the years such as Return to Innocence, Gravity of Love, Silence Must Be Heard, Mea Culpa... There are two editions of M.C.M.X.C.ad by the way :) The female vocals are by Sandra who is married to the guy behind Enigma. She is a massive star in her own right from Germany; has been since the 80s. I highly recommend her discography - Maria Magdalena, Johnny Wanna Live, In The Heat of The Night to name a few.

"Beyond the Invisible", "Return to Innocence", "Gravity of Love", "Push the Limits" are also worth checking out.

I was obsessed with this song when it came out. Incredible!

If you enjoy this, put this album on when you get romantic. You're welcome.

Been a fan of enigma for years listen to Enigma… Beyond the invisible.. singing was amazing and the music video was awesome

Gravity of love by this group is one of my favorite songs

Their greatest hits album was our after rave cd. A continuous mix of everything you need! Also some pretty good baby making music.

❤Love all there Enigma Albums Songs Beautiful music😊😊❤

Great reaction, love this song! It was HUGE at the time, got top 40 radio play as well as ruled the dance floors in the clubs. The atmospheric sound and video reminds me of Roxy Music's Avalon album. It's quite lush and dreamy as well. My thanks to Will for the request!

Enigma is one of my go-to groups for calming my system. For those of us who remember this group's popularity at the time, the nostalgia only adds to the experience now ❤❤❤ Listen to the entire Greatest Hits and I think you'll love them too!!!

Ah……yet another fave of mine, and NOT what I expected one of your patrons to request. COOL. Enigma is so different …….who would have thunk it……medieval chant in modern trance music….

I love this song but cannot help and remember hearing it on the Pure Moods CD commercial that played incessantly in the 90s...lol. I think I have the CD somewhere but the Playlist is actually here on KZfaq as well as Pure Moods II. Check it out!

The entire album is a must listen from start to finish. It plays as one massive track that ebbs and flows nicely. Highly recommend listening to it when you are in an introspective state with a bit of time. I also find it calming to fall asleep to if I am restless, etc. 🧘

Deep Forest (1992) was a really interesting hit album for awhile too.

You should buy the cd put on your headphones and melt into the sound of enigma

Now listen to the entire album - preferably on good headphones. Definitely a trip.

The Dead Can Dance & Enigma are one of my favorite Spiritual Ambient music bands of the 80's & 90's!!! Just great meditative/dance/spiritual music!!!! ❤❤❤🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡💗💗💗

As teenage boys when this song came out, the heavy breathing part had us all blushing like someone had just slapped us in the face. Wow memories.

Who else is busting out their Pure Moods CD right now :)

The End of Innocence by Enigma is a MUST HEAR

I was obsessed by this when I was younger

Re: "Marquis de Sade" -- Marquis is Marquess in English, a rank of nobility right below a duke, and is pronounced like "marquee" in French. I'm not going into details (google him yourself, please, if you want), but the tales of his ... let's call them "romantic escapades", shall we? ... gave birth to the concept and term of "Sadism". Yep, *that* stuff. Research at your own peril. 🙂 Not that I give a hoot; it's just a fantastic piece of music. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

i love this song , this one and return to innocence are my favorite

Mea Culpa should be next!

In the 60s my Catholic Church during High Mass, the choir (not Monks) sang the Gregorian Chants. The Mass, Chants and songs were in Latin. This song came much much later so it was a nice memory. Of course it wasn't exactly like this but I distinctly remember "Hosanna". Years later my teenage daughter and I enjoyed this album. Thanks for the memory.

Salvo!!! That was WHALE SONG, not horses that he sampled. Whale song was also a huge thing back in the day!!

Plz plz plz listen to Return to Innocence

❤❤❤❤love this

Great Gregorian tune love all there albums Enigma 👍🎶🎵

I listened to this growing up. Still trances me to this day.

12:20 Ha! For that, you have to watch their original video of their song "Principles Of Lust". 😅😅 And I don't want to judge you for not knowing who was Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, and what inspired 🤣🤣

So many more horizons for you to reach out for in music, Sal……have fun! 😁

Love this. I was 12yrs old when it came out and loved it back then too😊

One of my favorite albums, ever. It was so different, mixing the sacred and the profane (and the old and the new) in a totally new way, and it was sensual and downtempo. In this song, the Latin chants are sacred church songs, and the French text questioning Sade represents the profane. The Marquis (mar-kee) was a French political activist and nobleman, famous for his libertine novels, but was also imprisoned for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography. In French, she repeatedly asks: "Sade, tell me; Sade, give me." The male voice asks: "Sade, tell, me: What do you seek? Good by the way of Evil? Virtue via Vice? Sade, tell me: Why this Gospel of Evil? What is your religion; where are your followers? If you're against God, you're against Man. Sade, tell me: why do you need blood to experience pleasure? Pleasure without love. Does emotion no longer exist within the cult of Man? Sade, are you diabolical or divine?" (my own translation). Anything from the first three or four of albums is great.

Love this lil’ jam. 👍🙂✨

Their first four albums were great. Check out "I love you, I'll kill you", "TNT for the Brain" or "Back to the rivers of belief" (full album version).

I bought both sadeness and return to innocence as singles still have them

a verygood song👍👍

There is nothing like mixing Gregorian chant with lyrics about Marquis de Sade (Sadism)

Enigma is amazing

What a fantastic song and geat memory of dancing to this.. I havent heard it in years. The 7 minutes fly by. I remember when Enigma first came-out and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing new concept in music for me. I have been a loving fan ever since. Europe has always had some cutting edge dance, trance, house, and club music. I've always loved trance and listen to down tempo chill music (psybient, psybient chill). The beats are soothing for programming, or deep data analysis. I use out as a meditating tool too. Check out Androcell: Seahorse Dreams, Carbon Based Lifeforms: Central Plain. I have a healthy sized playlist on Spotify. Lots of European soundscape talent. The Psybient genre of trance is all about dropping mushrooms and tripping. I get high and listen to it all the time. Great tune and reaction. Thanks for doing something off beat. Check out The KLF: 3AM Eternal for another cool electronic band from the 80s. Came out around the same time as Enigma and not as chill. I think. I don't remember a lot of the 80s. Or early 90s.

Love how they incorporated those Gregorian chants. You did your usual excellent job of describing the mood of the song, Salvo. The Marquis de Sade, (pronounced Mar-KEE da Sod), was a French writer, (among other things), whose characters often engaged in painful sexual practices, leading to the term Sadism--i.e., S & M--being named for him. Kinda puts an extra twist on the tune, lol.

This was SUCH a huge part of my college life back in the day. 😆LOVED this shit. I'm glad you dug it - if you like down-tempo, I think you'll really dig some "slowcore" music. I love the band Low, and one of the best is "Monkey." Thanks Will AND Sal for the trip back to '90! 😊

Loved the first two albums especially

Love Enigma. Still have this CD.

what a great thing to see you hear our lives from back then, saw you totally tune in! excellent :D this and others changed things dramatically. we were already past the second hippie phase but this brought something new to the party. we had awesome music so we did! :D brilliant reaction. loved that. cheers. have you ever looked at morcheeba? ;) yw

Hypnotizing. The album is just awesome. The two parts of Sadeness here were roughly mixed together. The horse you mentioned was the opening of Find Love. Mea Culpa and The Rivers Of Belief are two other highlights on the album. The last one was released as BackTo The Rivers Of Belief, consisting of the last three pieces of the album, just breathtakingly beautiful. Mea Culpa also was released as a remix ( fading shades mix) where samples from other tracks were incorporated.

"Silence" by Delerium was SO good too. Ah, so many memories when I hear songs like these.

When we reach the 21st century this kind of music was called by music critics: "Trance-ambient " music. Music crafted and created for taking the listener into an alter state of consciousness or Trance. Check "Seraphim" by The Dead Can Dance. It is a banger!!!

Enigma is super interesting as a project, all their singles are lit and crafted. If you're looking into them, please check also Dead Can Dance as they go all out on músic out of this world

Enigma was great to listen to. Tantric, relaxing, different. Good stuff.

This is a great album I'm older than you and I remember New age music it was a thing people got into herbs and holistic ways of life early 2000s. Great song.

Thanks for this!!! I would suggest, when you have the time, to listen to the complete recording! It's a journey!!!

I was im my 20's when come out and it's still is banging track 34 years later

Not sure why they didn't have you react to the music video along with the official single edit version. Enigma have 8 albums. All are brilliant.

I’m an Aussie and bought this when it came out, and still have it. Great music!

This put Gregorian chant into popculture for a time

Loved enigma in the 90s❤❤❤❤❤

MCMXC a.D. , the album title, is 1990 in Roman numerals. And the Marquis de Sade is a French noble, author, and philosopher (of a very specific sort). His name lends itself to the term for one who derives sexual satisfaction from inflicting pain on another -- sadism.

Yes she's singing in french

I used to listen to Enigma all throughout the 90s. Always playing it on long flights or even putting it on my wallkman and falling to sleep with it. I feel this entire album is meant to listen to the entire thing all in one sitting. the songs play with each other and tell a story. Much like Pink Floyd's The Wall. There are a few other albums that were great.

My fav of Enigma is Return to Innocence , you must give it a listen.

Beautiful song. You have to do Return to Innocence. 🇨🇮

Loved it back in the day and this track blew up again when featured in the Dahmer netflix drama series

i got the greatest hits from them and it was definitey a worthwile buy

I loved this so much, though I had to play it without my parents hearing it, because they did not aprove of the gregorian chanting. Beyond the Invisible is another great song by Enigma.

I literally had a cassette tape with *only* Gregorian monks chanting 😅 The early 90s were a vibe lol.

This whole album is amazing. The Priciples Of Lust is another amazing one off this album. This made me think of all the commercials for Pure Moods. Now who remembers that CD and the commercil?

Checkout Sandra with Maria Magdalena, was produced and written as well by Michael Cretu. They where experimenting a lot, with great success.

I remember listening to this album a lot as a young adult/ college student. The next album was also pretty good too.

I've always loved Enigma. Lots of variety in one track. Perfect relaxing sound and I love vocal in French added in.

Now do "The Rivers of Belief" and "Eyes of Truth" from "The Cross of Changes." That one is beautiful. Do the official video with the elephants.

This song has always been so entrancing to me, since I first heard it back in the 90s. Just the combination of everything; the chants, the sexy French whisper, the woodwind sounding melody... chef's kiss. Moby did a lot of experimental stuff around this time, too, if you're interested. My faves are Porcelain, South Side (with Gwen Stefani - check her out, too), and We Are All Made of Stars - a song he wrote in the wake of 9/11 after he was stuck in his New York City apartment for days following the attacks.

I heard this on the radio and fell in love with it. Went to the record store and asked the girl for the song that has chanting. She knew exactly what I wanted, opened the disk and played it first me to be sure. When I was paying she told me that strippers have been buying it! 😂

This was an ibiza classic. For chillin after raving and misbehaving

I was going to suggest that you react to Sadeness Part 1 but glad that you have already done it. Enigma is such an awesome project, They got progressively less popular with each album but that doesn't mean the songs they put out are of any less quality. They still comes with haunting melodies, chants, atmospheric landscapes and unforgettable beats. If you react to more Enigma on this channel, you should also listen to Back to the Rivers of Belief: Way to Eternity/Hallelujah/The Rivers of Belief (also from the MCMXC a.D. album) and other great singles such as The Return to Innocence, The Age of Loneliness, Gravity of Love and Push The Limits.

I hope you watch the video for the single, it's so cool. I played it quite a bit when I was DJ'ing at the club. And I was on the floor when it got played when I wasn't working. Everybody in a chill groove. They had a second Top 10 hit off their next album with "Return To Innocence" that had a sort of mystical Native Indian feel. Should check that one out.

Try return to innocence by the same group. Love this.

Killer track, killer album! MCMXC (which are the Roman numerals for “1990”) was a game changer for electronica. If you dig Sadness, check out the entire thing, especially Mea Culpa and The Rivers of Belief.

It's amazing how the Euro late 80s/early 90s skip beat was a hit in the clubs. Between this song and Sybil's cover of Dionne Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over", this sound dominated the scene. This song was the jam, though!