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R.I.P Robert Miles


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There is sad news in the world of electronic music Tuesday night (May 9) as Robert Miles has died. The famed Italian trance music producer and DJ, born Roberto Concina, was 47.

 

Miles is perhaps best known for his 1995 breakout hit “Children,” which sold more than five million copies and is credited with helping push trance music closer to the mainstream. The song spent 13 weeks atop the Euro Top 100 chart after its release.

 

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R. I. P. Robert

 

Wikipedia:
"Children" is one of the pioneering tracks of dream trance (previously known as 'Dream House' in Europe during the mid-1990s), 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 trance 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.

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