Music Has the Right to Children
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Publication |
April 20, 1998 |
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Warp Skam Records Matador Records |
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Title (number) |
17 (Original Version) |
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running time |
62:58 (UK) |
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Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin |
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Studio (s) |
Hexagon Sun Studios , Pentland Hills , Scotland |
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Music Has the Right to Children is the first studio album by the Scottish electro duo Boards of Canada . The album was produced at Hexagon Sun Studios, the band's studio. It was released by Warp Records on April 20, 1998 in Europe and on August 20, 1998 in the United States. A re-release followed in 2004. The album is considered the most successful and critically most positively rated album of the duo.
production
The songs on the album use multiple field recordings and intense sound manipulations. Several tracks on the album consist of sequences, fragments or complete pieces that have already been released by Boards of Canada. Smokes Quantity first appeared on the album Twoism (1995). The Color of the Fire first appeared in a shorter version on A Few Old Tunes as I Love U . The short tracks at the end of the songs Triangles and Rhombuses and Sixtyten are older than the rest of the album and were later released on the unofficial compilation Old Tunes . There the tracks are separate titles.
Many of the samples in the pieces cannot be clearly identified. The track Aquarius, however, uses a sample from the song Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In by Galt MacDermot . The song comes from the famous music film Hair (1979).
reception
Mark Richardson of Pitchfork Media wrote in 2004: “Music Has the Right” showed that Boards of Canada are awesome with texture. Here God is in the details. ”Pitchfork gave the record the rare rating of 10.0 out of 10.0 possible points.
John Bush wrote at allmusic : “That is the pure spirit of the machines. Similar to forgotten Japanese soundtracks or a rusting Commodore 64 that is about to give up the ghost. [...] Music has the Right to Children is one of the best electronic releases in 1998. "Bush gave the record 5 out of 5 points.
Pitchfork placed the album at # 35 of the "100 Best Albums of the 90s", Mojo Magazine at # 91 of the "100 Modern Classics" list. The music magazine New Musical Express included the debut album in the TOP 25 psychedelic albums, which also includes albums by the Byrds , the Beatles and My Bloody Valentine .
The track Rue the Whirl appears in the episode Mettle of the British sitcom Spaced .
The track Kaini Industries was covered by Bibio for the Warp Records compilation Warp20 (Recreated) (2009).
Track list
All songs were composed by Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin.
- Wildlife Analysis - 1.17
- An Eagle in Your Mind - 6.23
- The Color of the Fire - 1.45
- Telephasic Workshop - 6.35
- Triangles & Rhombuses - 1.50
- Sixtyths - 5.48
- Turquoise Hexagon Sun - 5.07
- Kaini Industries - 0.59
- Bocuma - 1.35
- Roygbiv - 2.31
- Rue the Whirl - 6.39
- Aquarius - 5.58
- Olson - 1.31
- Pete Standing Alone - 7/6
- Smokes Quantity - 3.07
- Open the Light - 4.25
- One Very Important Thought - 1.14
- Bonus track from the 2004 re-release
- 18. Happy Cycling - 7.51
Trivia
The track Happy Cycling was incorrectly not preserved on 500 copies of the first US release of the album, although the cover of the CD listed the song in the track list.
Web links
- Music Has the Right to Children on Warp Records
- Listen to "Roygbiv" on Warp Records
Individual evidence
- ^ Ariel Kyrou, Jean-Yves Leloup: Two Aesthetes of Electronic Music , 1998
- ^ Translation by the author. English original: Music Has the Right revealed Boards of Canada to be geniuses with texture, where god is in the details.
- ^ Translation by the author. English Original: This is pure machine soul, reminiscent of some forgotten Japanese animation soundtrack or a rusting Commodore 64 just about to give up the ghost. [...] Music Has the Right to Children is one of the best electronic releases of 1998.
- ↑ http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/7/