Music Has the Right to Children
Music Has the Right to Children is the first studio album by the Scottish duo Boards of Canada Electric. It was released by Warp Records on 20 April 1998 in Europe and on 20 August 1998 in the United States. The album was produced in the Hexagon Sun Studios, the studio of the band.
The songs on the album take advantage of a number of field recordings and intense sound manipulation. The album is considered as the most successful and most positively valued by the critics album of the duo.
Reception
Mark Richardson of Pitchfork Media wrote in 2004: " " Music Has the Right " showed that Boards of Canada to deal with awesome textures Here God is in the details [ ... ] " Boards " managed to revive the childhood without or cute. . cute to act. childhood It is not how one lived it, but as adults remember them. the nuances of darkness and uncertain voltage [ ... ] accurately reflect the confusion of a time which is not a feeling or an emotion can be rounded up. Richardson gave the plate 10.0 of 10.0 points, which is very rare in Pitchfork.
John Bush writes in allmusic: .. "This is the pure spirit of the machinery Similar forgotten, Japanese soundtrack or a rusting Commodore 64, which is about to give up the ghost [ ... ] Music Has the Right to Children is one of the best electronic releases of 1998. Bush gave the board 5 out of 5.
Pitchfork placed the album at # 35 of the "100 best albums of the 90's ", the " Mojo Magazine" ranked # 91 of the "100 Modern Classics " list. The music magazine NME took the debut album into the Top 25 of the psychedelic albums on which will also the albums of the Byrds, the Beatles or My Bloody Valentine.
Notes
Several tracks on the album are made of sequences, fragments or complete pieces which were ever published by Boards of Canada. " Smokes Quantity" first appeared on the album Twoism (1995). " The Color of the Fire" was first published in a shorter version on A Few Old Tunes as "I Love U". The short tracks at the end of the song "Triangles and rhombuses " and " Sixtyten " are older than the rest of the album and was later released on the unofficial compilation Old Tunes. There, the tracks are separate titles.
" Sixtyten " (Eng. Sixty Ten ) is the English translation of " Soixante - Dix ", the word for seventy in the French language. 70 is the smallest odd number. A track on their next album is called "The Smallest Weird Number" and could be a reference to his own music label of Boards Of Canada, music70 be. " Pete Standing Alone " is the name of Indian blood, which is the subject of a documentary of the National Film Board of Canada. " Roygbiv " is a mnemonic for colors in the visible spectrum and in rainbows: " Roy G. Biv " stands for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.
The track " Rue the Whirl " appears in the episode " Mettle " of the British sitcom Spaced.
The track " Kaini Industries" was covered by Bibio for Warp Records compilation Warp20 ( Recreated ) (2009 ).
Many of the samples in the pieces are not clearly identified. The track " Aquarius" but uses a sample from the song Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In Galt MacDermot of. The song comes from the famous musical film Hair ( 1979).
The track " Happy Cycling" was mistakenly not get to 500 copies of the first U.S. release of the album, although the cover of the CD the song aufführte in the title list.
Title list
All songs were composed by Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin.