The second volume of Delerium's Archives series includes selected tracks from the Spheres, Spheres II, and Spiritual Archives LPs.
It also features a bonus track, the previously unreleased "Infra Stellar," culled from the sessions for 1998's Cryogenic Studio.
1993's Archives begins Disc One with the industrial crash and drone of "Drama," before trudging into mechanistic soundscape territory, where sounds seem to ooze from landfills, and bursts of flame light up the night sky.
While not necessarily upbeat, the twittering electronic instrumentals of Spheres do have a bit more warmth than their predecessors.
The material from Spheres II stays the course, adding a bit of a beat, with here-and-there percussion and some FSOL-style ambient flirtations.
There are still experiments in sonic landscaping ("Dimensional Space"), but by this point Delerium seem to have shifted full-on towards electronic music.
Archives, Vol.
2, and its counterpart, are recommended for fans and "Silence"-inducted curiosity seekers alike, since the albums they cover had previously been pretty hard to find.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DramaDelerium | Delerium | Play | 07:36 | 17 MB | 42 MB |
| 2 | AftermathRhys Fulber, Bill Leeb | Delerium | Play | 07:34 | 17 MB | 39 MB |
| 3 | Ephemeral PassageDelerium | Delerium | Play | 06:28 | 14 MB | 36 MB |
| 4 | AwakeningsDelerium | Delerium | Play | 08:13 | 18 MB | 46 MB |
| 5 | MonolithDelerium | Delerium | Play | 07:42 | 17 MB | 44 MB |
| 6 | ColonyDelerium | Delerium | Play | 07:21 | 16 MB | 45 MB |
| 7 | Dark MatterDelerium | Delerium | Play | 07:28 | 17 MB | 38 MB |
| 8 | Cloud BarrierDelerium | Delerium | Play | 06:37 | 15 MB | 35 MB |
| 9 | MorphologyDelerium | Delerium | Play | 08:50 | 20 MB | 57 MB |
| 10 | TranshumanistDelerium | Delerium | Play | 10:11 | 23 MB | 62 MB |
| 11 | ShockwaveDelerium | Delerium | Play | 07:04 | 16 MB | 43 MB |
| 12 | Dimensional SpaceDelerium | Delerium | Play | 05:26 | 12 MB | 30 MB |
| 13 | HypoxiaDelerium | Delerium | Play | 08:09 | 18 MB | 48 MB |
| 14 | OtherworldDelerium | Delerium | Play | 03:49 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 15 | Infra StellarDelerium | Delerium | Play | 08:15 | 18 MB | 49 MB |
| 110 mins | 253 MB | |||||
| 110 mins | 646 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delerium | Composer, Mixing, Primary Artist |
| 2 | Rhys Fulber | Composer |
| 3 | Geoff Goddard | Mixing |
| 4 | Bill Leeb | Composer, Editing |
| 5 | Carylann Loeppky | Cover Design |
| 6 | Chris Peterson | Mixing |
| 7 | Greg Reely | Editing |
| 8 | Steve Royea | Assistant |
| 9 | Craig Waddell | Mastering |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |