Delerium (was Re: (fax) Sad World)

[Christian]

I hope you mean you found the post-Karma stuff too popular as opposed to 
their pre-Karma material. The older Delerium is much darker and deeper - 
IMHO Semantic Spaces ('94) was the beginning of the end. Mind you I'd 
have to count Spheres & Spheres II among my favourite albums even though 
they both came out that same year. The "reflections" CD's (both I + II) 
are probably a decent collection of '88-'93 material for sampling early 
Delerium if you want a taste (and yes, naturally some of the very early 
stuff does sound a bit basic). And yes, absolutely - Intermix was good 
(though didn't that third album sample the movie Baraka a bit heavily?), 
especially Phaze Two which was a really inventive cross-genre album for 
its time. Anyhow, I imagine you could literally spend days listening to 
the combined output of Mssr's Leeb, Fulber (and Balch)...

brian at lists.frickster.net wrote:

> I first heard about Delerium when Karma was released.  I was in 
> Toronto, stalking Jean Michel Jarre, who had just released Oxygene 
> 7-13.  My friend Ivan and I were hanging out near the Canadian MTV 
> studios, where Jarre was headed to do an interview, and we popped into 
> an HMV.  There was a magazine with Sarah McLachlain on the cover, and 
> an interview with Jarre inside... I bought the magazine, which is 
> somewhere in a box in my possession.  Karma is the only Delerium CD 
> I've ever at any point enjoyed.  Their other stuff seemed, in my 
> opinion, to be too similar to Enigma (who were far more cutting-edge 
> at the time), and too "popular" for my taste.  This is just my 
> opinion, but nothing of theirs has really impressed me much aside from 
> Karma (on drugs). :)
>
> Incidentally, I *did* meet JM Jarre, and he signed the black-and-white 
> photograph that came in the Oxygene 7-13 press kit "To Brian: Best 
> always, JM Jarre".  I think that made the trip worth it. :D
>
> -Brian
>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Trevor Cordes wrote:
>
>> Were you ever into pre-Karma Delerium?  The new mainstream stuff they're
>> doing has nothing to do with their 90's stuff.  Intermix 2 was one of
>> the first "techno" CDs I ever bought.  Intermix 1 is great too -- hints
>> of hip-hop, with some cool Erik B & Rakim samples.  I still rate that
>> stuff very highly.
>
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