i heard this in either a nick warren set or a deep dish set and it came from the era when dj chus and his stereo productions label (and sublabels) had a lockdown on tribal house leaning on the progressive side. it was all about long tracks with really heavy grooves where the drums dictated the bottom end and not the bassline.
this one became popular with many and me included and it had to do with the combination of those drums and the almost wholesale use of sheila chandra's "the dreaming". chandra's chanting and the sitar strums on top of a punching kick and a multitude of congas, timbales, shakers and all sorts of percussion is a perfect match.
"enchantments" in particular is structually built with one long build and two drops where the first one is purely for tension building and is chandra's infamous vocal/wailing riff and some loose percussion. anyone that has heard the prodigy's "smack my bitch up" will recognize the wailing as liam howlett had shahin badar resing the particular wailngs.
the second drop has a speech and is with a typical deep male vocal talking about how deep the music and how you feel it on your soul or whatever. it is kind of pointless in the context of this version as the second drop is not adding anything to the track. marcello castelli who also did a remix has the vocal in a shorter drop and while his track is actually more clever both rhythmically, aurally and structurally i don't like how he used the sheila chandra sample.
i know that shouldn't make sense in writing but it does to these ears.
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