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“Children” is an instrumental composition by Italian composer Robert Miles. “Children” was certified gold and platinum in several countries and reached Nr. 1 in more than 12 countries; it was Europe’s most successful single of 1996. In 2025, Billboard ranked it among “The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time”. According to Wikipedia, Miles gave two inspirations for the writing of “Children”. One was as a response to photographs of child Bosnian 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 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. |
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