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Euphoric

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This Ep is half industrial and half ambient, the first two tracks being more or less straight up industrial, and the last two being spectacular ambient music. The opening track is a crazed tune with psychotic samples and erratic beats suggesting the ravings of a drug addict (rather interesting sample involving cocaine in there). "Decade" is a much more steady tune, an even, regular, six-minute procession of industrial beats. "Grave Mentor" is the album's gem, a 15-minute ambient piece that may be Delerium's single finest ambient tune, opening with five minutes of slow electronic humming interspersed with samples of Gregorian chanting, followed by several minutes of a lively, uplifting melody, then back to chanting and droning at the end. "Sorrow" follows a similar pattern, a slow, dark, and lushly beautiful ambient piece. Highly recommended for all able to appreciate the dark side of ambient.

"Euphoric" is perhaps the darkest album Delerium has put together. Essentially one of the first dark-tech projects to really put forth a work that is at once haunting and mesmerizing. "Euphoric" drips with the madness of a stalker. The title-track introduces the listener into the adrendalized mind of some twisted raver. The music then proceeds to take the listener into a psychotic voyage of madness, murder, and repentence. All this is done without the use of vocals, simply by allowing the music to suggest (if not invoke) the mood of insanity and despair. "Euphoric" is a brilliant work unto itself. This album creates the back ground for another dark-tech opus, NIN's "The Downward Spiral". With "Euphoric" Delerium presents one of the crown jewels of dark-tech and dark ambient.

Bill Leeb and the (now, unfortunately absent) Rhys Fulber have created some of my all time favorite songs, from the upbeat "Flowers Become Screens" to the dark melodies of "Euphoric." I beleive this is possibly there best album. It's dark, and skitzy, and seems to be telling a story. While it only contains four tracks, its about 40 minutes of mind-altering music about insantiy, death, love, hate...the list goes on. Brilliant. Can be interpreted on so many levels, unlike music with lyrics, which just has "face value." I hope Leeb can come up with equally brilliant work for the new Delerium album (minus Fulber).

This CD is enjoyable as it shows fans the beginnings of Delerium as a experimental frontline industrial sound. I enjoyed the tracks of the CD and would say for anyone to buy this CD.

Before Bill Leeb needed to pay for a new house with albums like Karma and Poem, Delerium was an experimental electronic ambient force to be reckoned with! This album is sublimely tortured and very recommended.

An older EP, this reminded me not just a little of Front Line Assembly's "Colombian Necktie" EP, right down to the mysterious and portentious use of movie sound bytes on the different tracks.

Fans of Delerium's later albums like "Poeme" will probably be offput by this EP's dark, repetetive synthetics. There is no Sara McLaughlin cameo here to rescue this EP from an unquiet grave.

I loved it.

Eurphoric being Deleriums 1991 EP can be said to be a mix of many sounds. Take some parts FLA, some intermix and some olde delerium and you have this EP. It is the begining of the new delerium sound and I find that it is more experimental then previous releases with samples and better sounds and beats. Not that the older recordings are bad by any means, it is just that Leeb and Fulber seem more and more comfortable in the studio and this shows with a more experimental approach to their music.

This album is by far one of the best works of art to come out of the goth-industrial scene. The music takes you on a trip, it first takes you into the darkest parts of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber's minds then brings you back up. This is one of my favorite albums, and I hope you enjoy it as well.

Although i am a great fan of older delerium(with every release i become more disstanced), this is one of the disks i listen to the least. Mostly because the first two tracks fail to do much for me. Mixing exessively industrialesque beats with rediculious samples, they seem like they should have been b-sides off a FLA release. Despite that, this is worth having in any true fans collection, just for the epic track "Grave Mentor." This fifteen minute track reminds me of some deeply macabe soundtrack. Slow and methodical. Finishing off the release is the quiet "Sorrow" it's a herald of dreams. Play the second half before sleep, and you will drift to an interesting place.

If you enjoy this, i would suggest looking up "Stone Glass Steel" or possibly even "Ambre"

Excellent music as usual, my only complaint is that some of the best music is -out of print. Please email me if anyone can tell me were to get some of the out of stock CD's.

Also check out Frontline Assembly, which is awesome as well.