Have you heard the iconic electronic musical piece ‘Children’ by Robert Miles? If you were growing up in the 90s or early 2000s, there’s a high chance you did, even if the name was unknown to you at that time.  Like Bethoven’s ‘Fur Elise’, it became one of those pieces of Music, which you did not know much about, yet felt a sense of familiarity with it whenever it played.

A tune of background comfort, if you will.

Here’s the music, if you want to feel nostalgic:

Well, the creator of this piece, Robert Miles passed away recently due to cancer, at the young age of 47. I came across this post in Reddit, about his death. That’s how I could put a name and a face to this music that I’d heard so many times. After  a cursory search on Google, I learnt that Mr. Miles was Italian. He was a DJ and a pioneer of trance music.

And although I was not aware of his name before, I felt sad when I realised that the composer of this track from my childhood was no more.

Finding out that the name of this nostalgic track led me to visit the concerned Wikipedia page.

What I found most interesting was Robert Miles’ motivations for creating ‘Children’.

From Wikipedia

“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 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.”

I had been listening to the track on a loop when I read the Wikipedia article. Knowing the inspirations behind the song somehow made it more special.

So, take a ride of nostalgia along with me. Listen to this amazing track. BTW, this is the dream version, so the familiar music starts at 0:30

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