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"Children" is one of the
pioneering tracks of Dream house, a genre of electronic
dance music characterized by dream-like piano melodies, and
a steady four-on-the-floor bass drum. Robert Miles gave two
inspirations for the writing of the famous instrumental
track. One was as a response to photographs of child
Yugoslav war victims that his father had brought home from a
humanitarian mission in the former Yugoslavia, and the
other, inspired by his career as a disc jockey, was to
create a track to end DJ sets, intended to calm rave
attendants prior to their driving home as a means to reduce
car accident deaths. "Children" cost only £150 to record.
Released in November 1995 as the lead single from Miles'
debut album Dreamland (1996), it went to the top position in
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland,
Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, amd Finland. |
