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Crétu certainly isn't trying to hide anything - “Callas Went Away” goes right ahead and adds a sample of Maria Callas herself to the chirping birds and soft beats, while elsewhere the flutes, beats, monks, and French voices merrily go about their glossy business. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.

#ENIGMA MCMXC A.D. FREE#

still trips out on the possibilities as it can, right from the opening “Voice of Enigma,” inviting all listeners to sit back, relax, and take a gentle trip. Listen free to Enigma MCMXC A.D (The Voice of Enigma, Callas Went Away and more). If nothing quite equals that prime moment elsewhere on the album, MCMXC A.D. Guitar and male vocals add to the album version's try-anything-that-works approach, as do attempts at shuffling jazz beats and horns. Snippets of monks invoking the Almighty effortlessly glide in and out of a polite but still strong breakbeat, shimmering, atmospheric synth and flute lines and a Frenchwoman whispering in a way that sounds distinctly more carnal than spiritual (as her gasps for breath elsewhere make clear). Credit Crétu for an open ear for whatever works, which is precisely why “Sadeness,” the first part of a longer track called “Principles of Lust,” turned into a fluke worldwide hit. The result is something that shouldn't exist, but in its own way results in as much of a cultural scramble and explosion as anything Public Enemy were doing around the same time, crossing over the Euro-disco and new age spheres with style. Michael Crétu's attempt at fusing everything from easy listening sex music and hip-hop rhythms to centuries-old Gregorian chants couldn't have been more designed to tweak the nose of high art, a joyously crass stab straight at a mainstream, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.

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