Anyway, MilesвЂ™ productions were richer and less cheesy than he was properly given credit for: Take вЂњFantasya,вЂќ also from MilesвЂ™ debut, which paired a skipping beat with wordless, cloud-scaling diva vocals and and a strong bass undertow. shouting at Tom Cruise through his cell phone.Дoes that make вЂњChildrenвЂќ sound dated, then? Yes, of course, but вЂњdatedвЂќ is one of the most frustrating words in music discussion as if providing the definitive sound of a moment in time is an inherently bad thing. But itвЂ™s the вЂњChildrenвЂќ melody that ended up the real time machine, as short a trip back to 1996 as Cuba Gooding Jr. (Rapper Tyga clearly found it unshakeable, prominently sampling it for his 2015 single вЂњ$timulated.вЂќ) ItвЂ™s hardly the only great piano riff that Miles ever managed on Dreamland alone there are a handful of ivory-tickling tracks that rival вЂњChildrenвЂќ for brain-stickiness - like вЂњFableвЂќ and вЂњOne & One,вЂќ both top 10 hits essentially everywhere but the U.S., and No. In all вЂ™90s pop, perhaps only Marc CohnвЂ™s вЂњWalking in MemphisвЂќ only comes close to stimulating as much reflexive air-piano as вЂњChildrenвЂќ 20 years later and it still takes just one measure to guarantee that the thing will be Slinky-ing up and down your subconscious for the rest of the day. ItвЂ™s that pretty, but itвЂ™s also that propulsive: The songвЂ™s throbbing bass, spectral synths and punishingly metronomic beat ensure the song sounded just as natural at an underground rave as a spa resort.ДЄnd the piano hook - dear lord, the piano hook. вЂњChildrenвЂќ sounds like it easily couldвЂ™ve been one of those cross-genre marriages its ethereal guitar picking and cavernous production originally belong to the beatless ambience of a track from a Pure Moods compilation. What it really sounded like was a remix to itself: The вЂ™90s were littered with popular trance reinventions of gorgeously stolid compositions, whether Samuel BarberвЂ™s вЂњAdagio for StringsвЂќ or Mark SnowвЂ™s theme to The X Files.

(The song was also inspired in part by pictures his father of kids hid father had brought from a humanitarian trip to war-torn Yugoslavia, hence the title.)Дespite these tragic catalysts for its inception, вЂњChildrenвЂќ was hardly the вЂњMiss SarajevoвЂќ of the dance floor - it was still more buoyant than it was heavy, more adrenalizing than chilling. Its parent album was called Dreamland, and according to a вЂ™96 article in The Observer, the song was in fact written to help combat drug-related auto deaths that were sweeping MilesвЂ™ home country of Italy - the thought being that if calmer records like MilesвЂ™ were played at the end of a DJвЂ™s set, it might lead to less aggressive post-club driving. Robert Miles, DJ and Producer Known For '90s Club Hit 'Children,' Dies at 47Д«ut вЂњChildrenвЂќ was a different beast: Huge and undeniable, but also intimate and inscrutable.

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