{"id":3099,"date":"2012-12-21T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2012-12-21T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:20:18","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-378-21st-century-delerium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/21\/my-musical-evolution-part-378-21st-century-delerium\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 378 21st Century Delerium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Delerium Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you were to ask me which music group comes to mind when I think of those old News Groups days, my word association reflex answer would have to be Delerium<\/em>. Before the News Groups, I had never heard of Delerium<\/em> or any songs by them. Remember when I was talking about the news groups in the last post? I was saying how sometimes people would post things that weren’t strictly<\/em> New Age but were still appealing to the New Age audience. Well I think Delerium is a classic example. The early stuff by Delerium like Spheres<\/em> is certainly New Age but the music featured on the albums shown above are a blend of New Age and some kind of Techno offshoot.<\/p>\n

Euphoria (Firefly) <\/em> was the first song I heard as sampled from the group. The vocals kind of reminded me of Madonna<\/em> from the Like a Prayer<\/em> era.\u00a0 The more I listened to it, the more it grew on me and soon after I bought Best Of Delerium<\/em>.\u00a0 From there, Aria <\/em>left me wanting more and soon I had a stack of their CDs. I know that I am probably the exception rather than the rule but here is an example where a song shared on a network resulted in the eventual purchase of 9 Compact Discs by that artist. Two things, I prefer to have the CD on my shelf even if I only interact with it just long enough to rip it into my computer. I like the backup. I also like to support the artists that make the music and this is one way that I can do it.\u00a0 The free share peer to peer networks and torrents aggravate me a little. I guess I feel that if everybody played by the rules, there would be less rules and less effort to try to account for when people don’t follow the rules.<\/p>\n

I won’t go as far as saying that Delerium is my favorite group but I can say that I feel that I can listen to them just about any time. If you look at my media library, you’ll find several auto playlists based on Genre, s<\/em>everal based on Statistics<\/em> [most played, recently added], several based on My Musical Evolution <\/em>and just 4 based on Artist.<\/em> One of those artists is Delerium. <\/em><\/p>\n

I haven’t finished backfilling their catalog yet but it is on my list of things to do.\u00a0 I think you are going to like Delerium. I recommend starting with the Best Of <\/em>or Poem <\/em>as they are probably my favorites if I had to pick one. See that even when I have to pick just one, I can’t.<\/p>\n

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Euphoria (Firefly)<\/em>
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