Enigma - MoreThanComplete

FIRST OF ALL: THIS IS MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GERMAN BAND "ENIGMA" ON THE INTERNET IN ONE PIECE, IT INCLUDES EVEN SOME NON-OFFICIAL INTERESTING RELEASES

ENIGMA is one of the most successful musical projects of the past 20 years with more than 40 million records sold worldwide, 50 #1 Chart positions, 100 Platinum Awards, over 100 remixes/edits/mixes/dubs per song, and features on over 1000 compilations"


1. GENERAL INFO
This is a collection of:
A) ALL OFFICIAL releases (Albums, CDs, Singles, EPs,...);
and
B) LOT OF NON-OFFICIAL (not all but most significant and popular) releases
C) LOT OF NON-ENIGMA works (very rare pre-Enigma stuff of Michael Cretu, by-side works of M.Cretu) but there is some connection to Enigma.

D) Also, this content includes:
a. ALL album art pictures as well (200 pictures!!!)
b. all lyrics
c. chronology of all releases (according to official site: http://www.enigmamusic.com/index.shtml
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(musical_project) )
d. other stuff (video files, comments, infos, ...)

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2. QUALITY INFO
All tracks are:
- 320kbps CBR (Constant Bit Rate) NO COMPROMISE !

- 44100 Hz

- Normalized to 98%

- TAGed IdTag in v2 and v1 + APE !

- TAGed with art covers (for every edition there is an art picture in the EVERY SINGLE file info, in some files there are even 2 pictures, e.g. "Carly's Song"!) BE CAREFUL: SIZE OF PICTURES IMPORTED IN FILES AND PICTURES IN ALBUM FOLDERS ARE SMALLER THAN SAME PICTURES IN FOLDER: "ART" !!!!
Thus, because some mp3 players can not read bigger art info than 100KB!

ALL TAGS ARE 101% CORRECT, unlike the other torrents that You find everywhere, where they does NOT have correct names or tags.

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3. For all singles, EPs (extended play), maxi singles, promos, ... I named it: "Non-Album Edition", it is just simplier ...
For all bootlegs, custom CDs, fakes, ... I named it: "Non-Official Edition", it is simpler.

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4. COMMENTS ABOUT NON-OFFICIAL RELEASES (e.g. bootlegs, fakes, ...)

There are lot of comments about non-official releases, but I did not pay attention to that. To me, only 2 things were important:
a. is it official or non-official release
and
b. is it enough good/or not to be in this collection.


Examples of comments:

a.
from: http://www.earth-rhythms.com/group_profile.php?group_id=112
"Erotic Dreams, like Chorus of Tribes, gained substantial recognition when it was marketed as an Enigma bootleg, originating from eastern Europe. Temple of Love was in fact originally released in 1998 from Dino Music in Holland. Very little is said about the creators of the album, only that their last names are Dekker, van Es and Papen. If I was asked to speculate, I would guess that their full names are Jan Dekker, Ruud van Es and Rob Papen. Ruud and Rob were the guys behind the group Peru, Holland's equivalent to Tangerine Dream."

b. from somewhere:
"Erotic Dreams" is NOT Enigma.
It is an album titled "Temple of Love" by the group Erotic Dreams.

c. from somewhere:
'fake' releases here as well ("Metamorphosis", "Mystic Mixes", etc)

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5. I tried to avoid duplicate files but it was very hard ...
for example there is no need to put all 6discs pack edition: "15 Years After" because discs 1-5 were the first 5 albums released by the group already, only 6th disc is interesting

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6. Info about year of release is always true, but info about month is only guideline because there are lot of variations from source to source

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7. nice info sources:
a. http://www.enigmamusic.com/index.shtml
and
b. official site: http://www.enigma.de/index_e.html
and
c. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(musical_project)
and
d. http://enigma-collector.skyrock.com
and
e. http://www.five.no/enigma/pghist.html
and
f. http://www.five.no/cretu/illdiscog/

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8. Some remixes/mixes/edits are AWESOME!
Also, some by-side works are very good (e.g. with Andru Donalds on his album: "Snowin' Under My Skin")

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9. Especially, I'm very happy to collected some rare pre-Enigma editions to save it from forgetting!

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10. What is unfair?
Unfair is when someone try to sell non-official & bootleg releases on internet and in the same time is forbidden to other to freely download it.
Obviously, it is allowed to trade non-official & bootleg releases but it is not allowed to freely download it!!!
If it is non-official then it is non-official both for trading(selling) and for downloading it, do You agree?

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11. SOME (MAXI)SINGLES CONTAIN MORE TRACKS! (example: single: "Sadeness" contain "Meditation Mix" and "Introit"/or single: "Boum-Boum"/or single: "Carly's Song")
THIS IS BECAUSE I WANTED TO "COVER" ALL VERSIONS OF RELEASES (US, EU, JAPAN, ...).
Lot of tracks were very hard to find.

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12. Cover ART is also AWESOME, so I put it in one folder. It is great pleasure to let it scroll in Your DVD player, there are 202 pictures!

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13. At the end ... be patient with this torrent ... it is huge ... I spent more than six months on it (finding, checking, comparing, converting, normalizing, tagging, ...)!
Also, I have my regular daily job and I can seed it only from late afternoon to early in the morning!

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14. In the beginning I was happy when I download something, but now ... satisfaction and beauty with torrent is to make something good and to share it with the ALL planet


Enjoy and SEED!