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Tone Deft wrote:

leedsquietman wrote:Enigma is the project of Michael Cretu, *Curly MC*, a hungarian/german who looked somewhat like a porno star with his curly hair and beard. A brilliant synthpop producer.

didn't he screw over the monks that sang on that single by recording them and refusing to pay them later?

Hey pal. When your previous claim to fame was producing 80's German Pop music you'll screw over just about anybody to get your dignity back.

korg ms2000?

leedsquietman wrote:Enigma is the project of Michael Cretu, *Curly MC*, a hungarian/german

Romania where he is from is neither Germany neither Hungary. It has its own cultural identity dating back to the Roman Empire when Germans and Hungarians were still hords roaming around Europe. Cretu along with Mircea Eliade and Georges Enescu is one of the most prominent Romanians of modern times.
He was part of Munich disco school along with Frank Farian - Boney M "maker". Cretu was the arranger and keys behind many a classic disco hits.

Thanks, I meant Romania (don't know where Hungary came from except I was HUNGRY at the time I wrote it).

Yes, Cretu was responsible for disco mixes but like Giorgio Moroder he was always big on technology, his Legionnaires album was quite cutting edge for 1982-83 in an electronic sense, he adopted digital recording early and was very much into sampling too.

noisetonepause wrote:

Timur wrote:Nah, they're french, aren't they? My name is turkish.

Timur? Turkish? I'm quite sure Lenk begh would chop yer ears off and feed them to you for saying that.

Of course, he'd probably do that even if it was true...

Tamerlan, Timur'Leng, Timur i Leng, Lenk begh is new to me. Actually the last mongolian Khan. Today the name is both turkish and russian and probably used in some other countries around these areas as well. I did my homework.

v00d00ppl wrote:is dreaming the old school hardware?

Both are, and both are presets. But I added a Piano sound (preset too) to Dreaming to make it slightly more percussive. The name of the files corresponds to the name of the presets.

To satisfy the yellow press part of this thread: Sandra and Creto divorced some months back.

I admit I always likes the gregorian chorus back then and probably still would. Sandra never touched my heart though, but can see on TV again these days.

ThrowAway wrote:korg ms2000?

Nah, it's not analog modelling, it's all digital ROMpling.

You can cheat by looking into another thread of mine, but that's less fun.

Korg 01W

beats me wrote:I still love Enigma and celebrate their entire catalog.

I would even argue that the beat he used for Principles of Lust/Sadeness is even more universally recognizable than the Amen Break. Show up to a party full of average people and play the Amen Break and you'll get a bunch of blank stares. Throw on the Sadeness beat and everybody will instantly go "Hey! Enigma!" and then start molesting each other.

it is indeed universally recognizable - as a Soul 2 Soul/Jazzie B beat

nico wrote:

beats me wrote:I still love Enigma and celebrate their entire catalog.

I would even argue that the beat he used for Principles of Lust/Sadeness is even more universally recognizable than the Amen Break. Show up to a party full of average people and play the Amen Break and you'll get a bunch of blank stares. Throw on the Sadeness beat and everybody will instantly go "Hey! Enigma!" and then start molesting each other.

it is indeed universally recognizable - as a Soul 2 Soul/Jazzie B beat

Yeah I know where it originated from but the average shmo thinks it started with Enigma. Some people need to go out and play with the common folk from time to time.

why would I want to do that?

nico wrote:why would I want to do that?

true

beats me wrote:

nico wrote:

beats me wrote:I still love Enigma and celebrate their entire catalog.

I would even argue that the beat he used for Principles of Lust/Sadeness is even more universally recognizable than the Amen Break. Show up to a party full of average people and play the Amen Break and you'll get a bunch of blank stares. Throw on the Sadeness beat and everybody will instantly go "Hey! Enigma!" and then start molesting each other.

it is indeed universally recognizable - as a Soul 2 Soul/Jazzie B beat

Yeah I know where it originated from but the average shmo thinks it started with Enigma. Some people need to go out and play with the common folk from time to time.

Tom's Diner

I think Tom's Diner was after Enigma and you'd need a little more than just the beat to associate it...but that is one of those great songs that everbody knows and most don't know what the fuck it's called or who it's by.

You know, it's that du-du-dudu du-du-dudu song. Oh yeah, that one!