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“Silence” is a song by Canadian electronic music group Delerium. The song was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, and she is featured as vocalist on the track. The song is often credited to be one of the best trance songs of all time,[1] still playing in many clubs to this day.

The original album version and subsequent radio edit of the song had a much slower tempo than the more well-known remixes and was essentially structured like a pop song, with the characteristic synthetic instrumentation of the more melodic side of ambient music — though including darker overtones, such as the prominently featured Gregorian chants. This last element often invites comparison to popular ambient/new age/world music projects of the 1990s like Enigma and Deep Forest who routinely sample chants from various ethnicities worldwide, though in contrast such vocals featured on Karma were all original recordings.[2]

Although the original song did receive Canadian radio airplay in 1997, it was not released as a single until 1999, two years after the release of Karma, though it was only the Airscape Remix which received airplay at this time, rather than the more downtempo original version. The single prominently included remixes by DJ Tiësto, and Fade, which significantly boosted the song’s proliferation through club play (particularly by influential DJs such as Paul Oakenfold) as evidenced by the single’s positions on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts.

As a consequence, the song was largely promoted as an uptempo vocal trance song, which then influenced the marketing of the next several Delerium singles as well.
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  • Karma (Disk 1)
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  • Best Of Delerium
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  • Eye Trance Vol. 2
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  • Unity, Volume 10
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  • cbMonK

    dat' preparatory stroke...

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  • fariborz69

    mmmm

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  • flamencodave

    Lovely!!! I thought I heard Sarah's distinctive voice on there.

    last month

  • cisconinja

    Mindgasm!!!

    last month

  • tavitooo

    se me paran los bellos de mi piel

    last month

  • tavitooo

    great voice!! love all this song!

    March 2012

  • germankev

    oh my........ what a good track this one is ................ keep it up guys .. this also is a tune i have heard on a chill out album

    March 2012

  • DeepColdWater

    Awesome.

    March 2012

  • tavitooo

    Oh my god! the best performance!!

    February 2012

  • Xelestial

    First time hearing them, really digging this track.

    February 2012

  • mariaelenah2012

    MUY BUENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    February 2012

  • veronikesilva

    ADORO!!! :)))))))))))))))))))))))))

    February 2012

  • Xylvanya

    If you like ambitious and relaxing music, maybe it´s possible you like XYLVANYA: „Anxious“; „Beach II“; Regenbogen; „SA RIERA part I“, "Imperial Crown" „Climbing“ or „Ex-Mannequin“ or „Horizont (III) or "Gewitter-Regen" or "Erinnerungen an meinen Vater" or "Trust (Piano-Version)" or "Norwegen" or "Retrospective view" and many many more.....(all in all 6 hours of music, all songs free download) . Thank you for listening, support or feedback! Peace, Xylvanya

    January 2012

  • secondtruth

    Epic!

    January 2012

  • VooVoo2You

    ...........))

    December 2011

  • rainbowobniar

    ммммммммммм))

    December 2011

  • tavitooo

    a clasical song!!

    November 2011

  • CYBERpsycotic

    I can't believe I forgot about this song! Listening to this song inspires me.

    November 2011

  • alexsssssss

    клас

    October 2011

  • greekland

    classic.....

    October 2011
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