{"id":17465,"date":"2025-05-06T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:44:59","slug":"robert-miles-children-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=17465","title":{"rendered":"Robert Miles &#8211; Children, 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\">Robert Miles &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Children<\/strong>&#8221; <em>(1995) &#8211; Radio Edit<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17465-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/68\/23589340\/60028905\/1\/0\/0\/robert-miles-children-radio-edit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/68\/23589340\/60028905\/1\/0\/0\/robert-miles-children-radio-edit.mp3\">https:\/\/40s.musify.club\/get\/68\/23589340\/60028905\/1\/0\/0\/robert-miles-children-radio-edit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Children<\/strong>&#8221; is an instrumental composition by Italian composer Robert Miles. &#8220;Children&#8221; was certified gold and platinum in several countries and reached Nr. 1 in more than 12 countries; it was Europe&#8217;s most successful single of 1996. In 2025, Billboard ranked it among &#8220;The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, Miles gave two inspirations for the writing of &#8220;Children&#8221;. 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children&#8221; 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.<br \/>\n[ <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Children_(composition)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/em> ]<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_ph1_opt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_ph1_opt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17466\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Roberto Concina<\/strong> (1969-2017), known professionally as <strong>Robert Miles<\/strong>, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. His 1995 composition &#8220;Children&#8221; sold more than 5 million copies and topped the charts worldwide. Miles died from metastatic cancer in Ibiza, Spain, on 9 May 2017 at the age of 47.<br \/>\n[ <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Miles\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/em> ]<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_wiki_t1_opt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_wiki_t1_opt-300x50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_ph2_opt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/int_a_robert_miles_ph2_opt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Miles &#8211; &#8220;Children&#8221; (1995) &#8211; Radio Edit &#8220;Children&#8221; is an instrumental composition by Italian composer Robert Miles. &#8220;Children&#8221; was certified gold and platinum in several countries and reached Nr. 1 in more than 12 countries; it was Europe&#8217;s most&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=17465\" class=\"more-link\">Lexo <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}