What made Enigma so famous?

[k-bird]

What i remember about Enigma at the time was this: it was the first time in ages that such lush and chilled out music was made commerically accessible. The combination of eroticism and religion was certainly interesting. Their music had a sparse yet soft and inviting tone. It was them and Deep Forest that made good on that particular sound at the time, as i recall, sampling their way to success. Enigma were the more psychedelic, mystical and lofty-sounding of the pair; DF were more down to Earth and interested in exoticism for its own sake but did more interesting stuff with their samples.

I still like and listen to the first Enigma and DF albums but what came after didn't do much for me. Well, Cross of Changes was OK come to think of it..

Certainly not as clever or effective as the Orb though, in my opinion, but probably more suited to people who weren't on party drugs in the early 1990s.

[C00kie]

It was the mixing of Gregorian munks with the suggestion of horny sex that put Enigma on the map, nothing else. Contradiction, so it gets attention and runs the risk of getting laughed away.

[Steven West]

As much as I make fun of the name (in my Joker voice - "This club needs a Enima!" ...or - "Oh that's just Enya music with more letters and less vocals"...) Enigma actually is pretty talented at production and arranging, and I really don't mind his music that much... Over John Tesh and Kenny G, I can keep the boner going with Enigma a little better atleast.

I agree with Aldred, vicious and frenzied female orgasms are what make Enigma's music really worthwhile. And for me it's always 'Do I buy the CD, or get another hooker?'.

[useruseruser]

That's actually all nonsense here!

Enigma was a cypher machine by the Germans in the second world war. It was used to cypher the positions of the German submarines, very successfully, unless one machine was stolen by their enemies and able to decypher the code ...

Then the German submarines were destroyed nearly completely in relative short time, because the submarine hunters actually did know the concreete positions of the German submarines before they even appeared ...

[Voidoid Surrealist]

No, no. no... he was famous because he had blue puzzle pieces tattooed all over him...