Los Angeles-based musician and producer KANGA was a featured singer on ‘Signs’, the current album by Canadian electronic duo Delerium (aka Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly) that was released in March 2023.
Dutch darkwave pioneers Clan of Xymox have now remixed the song, stretching it out in strident fashion. An accompanying video created by Tim Rim Hill maintains the aquatic theme of the original clip, but also adds dream-like, often hallucinogenic visuals that incorporate paintings by long-term Delerium artwork designer Carylann Loeppky SITE and imagery by Matt Lombard SITE.
Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have explored electronic music terrain as Delerium for over 35 years, with a series of early albums that experimented with filmic, dark ambient instrumental sounds before they evolved into an outfit with a penchant for inviting their favourite female singers to lend their voices to ethereal, downtempo songs included on each new record. Maintaining this trend, ‘Signs’ featured contributions from Phildel, Inna Walters and Mimi Page, as well as KANGA, with each adding levels of aching, romantic beauty to their performances.
Leeb and Fulber initially made their name in the ongoing electronic-industrial group Front Line Assembly, using Delerium as a vehicle for crossover songs with occasional elements of trance that would emerge with 1995’s ‘Semantic Spaces’ and eventually led to massive global chart success five years later with the dance pop anthem ‘Silence (featuring Sarah McLachlan)’, which reached no. 3 on the UK chart.
With Front Line Assembly already part of the Metropolis Records roster, Delerium eventually signed to the label for the release of ‘Mythologie’ (2016), their fourteenth full length album and the predecessor to ‘Signs’.
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