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August 29, 2024: The Enigma website is 30 years! On August 29, 1994 this website was announced to the Enigma mailing list, with work having been started in May that year. It was the first Enigma site on the web - the next one would appear one year later. It's also the longest-running Enigma website, with a news archive going back to 1994, covering the releases from Enigma's second album. The site has basically the same appearance today as it had when it started. The web site originally had the address http://www.hsr.no/~joarg/Enigma.html, then http://www.stud.his.no/~joarg/Enigma.html from November 1995 and finally the current http://www.five.no/enigma/ from February 1998.
The latest Enigma album to date is The Fall Of A Rebel Angel, released in November 2016. There hasn't been much Enigma activity in the last years, but in June Enigma Music FanClub reported that Michael Cretu is working on a new Enigma album, citing people close to Cretu.
July 23, 2021:
The Complete Studio Album Collection is released - containing
all of Enigma's eight studio albums put together in a limited edition box. Each
album has different cover art compared to the original releases, with the cover
art being the same as the ones for the
May 2018 vinyl releases, only this time with
monochromatic colours and with black vinyl. The list of albums are as
follows:
The eight albums are also released individually, along with a ninth album
which is the 2001 compilation album
Love Sensuality Devotion - The Greatest Hits.
June 18, 2021:
The EP Sadeness (Part I) - Anniversary Edition - 30 Years is
released, to mark the original release of Enigma's first single. It is a
10" purple coloured vinyl, limited to 1,500 copies, with four tracks
containing three songs from Enigma's first album as well as the lead single from
the second album:
The EP was originally planned for release on October 9, 2020, which would be close to the 30 year anniversary of the original Sadeness (Part I) single release date of October 1, 1990, but the release was subsequently postponed.
May 14, 2021:
German schlager duo Fantasy release
the single Wild Boys (digital only). The song's lyrics are
about the music of the 1980s, and includes a verse mentioning Michael Cretu:
Ich kenn' all die Hits von Bad Boys Blue / Von C.C.Catch und von Cretu /
Und ich weiß, die kennst auch du. This translates into English as:
I know all the hits from Bad Boys Blue / From C.C.Catch and from Cretu /
And I know you do so too. The song originally appears on the album
10.000 bunte Luftballons, released on July 24, 2020.
Fantasy perform the song as contestants of the Free European Song Contest 2021, representing Poland. The contest is held on May 15, 2021, and results in place 13 out of 16.
April 24, 2020:
pbhmedia is releasing
Midnight Man - Tribute To Songs And Sounds Of Michael Cretu,
where Swedish artists cover songs by Michael Cretu or by artists produced by
him, mostly from the 1980s. The track listing is as follows:
The album is released digitally on April 24, with a release on CD on May
8.
On March 20, the single Angel 07 by Paul Rein was released,
as lead single from the album:
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