Enigma — The Child In Us

Back after a six-week absence, this deep cut from the German ambient project's third album is broadly charting again, tracked across 84 country and platform charts today. Opening with a Sanskrit chant — a Sri Lakshmi invocation — before folding into Michael Cretu's signature Gregorian-adjacent electronica, the track sits on 1996's Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!, the follow-up to the group's genre-defining debut. Enigma built a catalog on ecclesiastical samples and slow-burn atmospherics; The Child In Us is its most explicitly devotional entry, pairing spoken-word verses with that looping mantra. The project's first line has surfaced in film before — The Enigma Archives notes the opening chant appears in The Craft. Its return to broad presence today underscores how durably this sound streams three decades on.