“Silence” by Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan

"Silence" teamed Canadian electronic outfit Delerium with Sarah McLachlan, who wrote the words and shares the music credit with Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber; Nettwerk put it out as a single in 1999. In its original album form it moves slowly and is built like a pop song, all glassy ambient synths shaded darker by a prominent Gregorian chant of "Gloria in Excelsis Deo". That chant drew comparisons to Enigma and Deep Forest, though unlike those sample-hunters, the voices on Delerium's Karma were recorded fresh.

The remixes are what turned it into a club monument. Over the years they have been hailed among the greatest trance records ever made, and Mixmag readers put the Tiësto remix 12th among the greatest dance records ever.

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