*** Welcome to piglix ***

Children (Robert Miles song)

"Children"
Robert Miles - Children (Cover).jpg
Single by Robert Miles
from the album Dreamland
B-side Remix
Released 14 November 1995 (Germany)
12 February 1996 (UK)
Format CD single, CD maxi,
12" maxi, cassette
Recorded November 1994
Genre Dream trance, dream house
Length 3:49 (radio edit)
7:21 (original version)
Label Arista (US), Deconstruction (UK), Motor Music (Germany), BMG (Japan)
Producer(s) Miles
Robert Miles singles chronology
"Children"
(1995)
"Fable"
(1996)
Music sample
"Children"
4Clubbers - Children single.jpg
Single by 4 Clubbers
B-side Remix
Released July 2001
Format CD single, CD maxi
Genre Trance
Length 3:38
Label Dropout
4 Clubbers singles chronology
"Children"
(2001)
"Someday"
(2002)
"Children 2012"
Children-2012-Jack-Holiday-Mike-Candys.jpg
Single by Jack Holiday & Mike Candys
from the album Smile
Released 3 February 2012
Format CD single
Genre Electro house
Length 3:07
Jack Holiday & Mike Candys singles chronology
"Around the World"
(2011)
"Children 2012"
(2012)
"2012 (If the World Would End)"
(2012)

"Children" is a song by Italian trance composer Robert Miles. It was first released in Italy in January 1995 as part of the EP Soundtracks on Joe Vanelli's DBX label, but it did not chart. Vanelli brought the track to a nightclub in Miami where it was heard by Simon Berry of Platipus Records. Berry worked with Vanelli and James Barton (of Liverpool's Cream nightclub) to release the song in November 1995 as the lead single from his album Dreamland. The song is Miles' most successful single, being certified Gold and Platinum in several countries and it reached number one in more than 12 countries.

Miles has stated two motives for the writing of "Children". One was as a response to photographs of child war victims his father had brought home from a humanitarian mission in the former Yugoslavia; the other, inspired by his career as a DJ, 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" 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. The creation of dream house was a response to social pressures in Italy during the early 1990s: the growth of rave culture among young adults, and the ensuing popularity of nightclub attendance, had created a weekly trend of deaths due to car accidents as clubbers drove across the country overnight, falling asleep at the wheel from strenuous dancing as well as alcohol and drug use. In mid-1996, deaths due to this phenomenon, called strage del sabato sera (Saturday night slaughter) in Italy, were being estimated at around 2000 since the start of the decade. The move by DJs such as Miles to play slower, calming music to conclude a night's set, as a means to counteract the fast-paced, repetitive tracks that preceded, was met with approval by authorities and parents of car crash victims.


...
Wikipedia

...