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15 Years After
Box set by Enigma
Released	9 December 2005
Recorded	A.R.T. Studios, Ibiza, 1990–2005
Genre	New-age, ambient
Label	Virgin Schallplatten GmbH
Producer	Michael Cretu
Enigma chronology
Voyageur (2003) 15 Years After (2005) A Posteriori (2006)

15 Years After is a box set by the musical project Enigma. ^[1] It was released by Virgin Germany on 9 December 2005. The box set contains eight discs, five of them original studio albums created from 1990 to 2003, two DVDs, and a bonus CD of Enigma's songs covered by Rollo Armstrong.

As the title suggests, the box set celebrates the fifteen years since the release of Enigma's first single, " Sadeness (Part I)". The album cover was taken from Lady with an Ermine, a 1490 painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The box set packaging and photography was done by Dirk Rudolph, while artwork direction and original designs were created by Johann Zambryski, a long-time designer of Enigma artworks.

Originally, the box set was sold at €128, and this raised a stir with fans of the project, since the discs were not remastered, unlike the compilation album Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits but were instead fitted with Copy Control. A new single, " Hello and Welcome" (from the unreleased sixth album A Posteriori) and The Dusted Variations disc also received mixed responses from the fans, who questioned the release of the album.

Additionally, the music video for " Out from the Deep", which was dropped from the Remember the Future DVD without an apparent reason, was still absent in this re-release, and despite the box set being 12-inch vinyl-sized, there was little information about the history of the project within the booklet, apart from credits and a press release inside.

Later on, the price of the box set dropped to €92.99 and on 30 November 2005, the producer and creator of Enigma, Michael Cretu personally visited the EMI factory in Uden, Netherlands to sign a thousand copies of the box set. The thousand signed copies had Cretu's initials ("MC") signed with a silver marker. While signed copies of Enigma's albums are extremely rare, the autographed version of the box set was still available for purchase at Amazon.de half a year after its release. Also within the box set was a code that enabled owners to download the music videos for " Voyageur" and " Boum-Boum" by typing it in a special section within Enigma's official website.

Contents

Albums

• MCMXC a.D. (1990)
• The Cross of Changes (1993)
• Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (1996)
• The Screen Behind the Mirror (2000)
• Voyageur (2003)

Bonus CD

• " Hello and Welcome" and The Dusted Variations

DVDs

• Remember the Future (2001)
• MCMXC a.D.: The Complete Video Album (2003)

References

External links

• Enigma official website