Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence (1997)

"Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group, Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan , who is featured as the vocalist on the track. It has been credited as one of the best trance songs of all time, 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, though it had an ambient feel to it (similar to Enigma or Deep Forest recordings.).
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 Fade and DJ Tiesto, which significantly boosted the song's proliferation through club play (particularly by influential  disc jockeys such as Paul Oakenfold as evidenced by the single's positions on the Billboard dance Chart.
As a consequence, the song was largely promoted as a uptempo vocal trance song,  which then influenced the marketing of the next several Delerium singles as well. Unlike most of its successors, however, "Silence" also broke into the adult top 40 radio market due to the song's club success , and through radio airplay the original version received mainstream awareness relatively greater than the remixes among club patrons.


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Tiesto mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvE_04x-xI


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original mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvqlI0Hv9f4