Music Has the Right to Children

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Music Has the Right to Children is the debut album by Boards of Canada, the Scottish brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin. It was released in 1998 on Warp and Skam Records. They made it in their own studio Hexagon Sun in the Pentland Hills, after two earlier EPs, Twoism and Hi Scores. Both labels wanted to release the record, so they released it together. The brothers used samplers, deliberately detuned old synthesizers, drum machines and tape recorders.

The sound is warm, grainy and nostalgic. There are samples from Sesame Street and from American and Canadian television programmes of the seventies, often with distorted voices. In Rue the Whirl, birdsong ended up on the tape by accident because the window was open. The brothers let it stay. Critics responded with praise and the album is regarded as a milestone of electronic music. It inspired later artists.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Wildlife Analysis1:16Apple Music ↗
2. 2An Eagle In Your Mind6:26Apple Music ↗
3. 3The Color of the Fire1:46Apple Music ↗
4. 4Telephasic Workshop6:35Apple Music ↗
5. 5Triangles & Rhombuses1:50Apple Music ↗
6. 6Sixtyten5:48Apple Music ↗
7. 7Turquoise Hexagon Sun5:08Apple Music ↗
8. 8Kaini Industries0:59Apple Music ↗
9. 9Bocuma1:36Apple Music ↗
10. 10Roygbiv2:32Apple Music ↗
11. 11Rue the Whirl6:39Apple Music ↗
12. 12Aquarius5:58Apple Music ↗
13. 13Olson1:32Apple Music ↗
14. 14Pete Standing Alone6:08Apple Music ↗
15. 15Smokes Quantity3:07Apple Music ↗
16. 16Open the Light4:25Apple Music ↗
17. 17One Very Important Thought1:25Apple Music ↗
18. 18Happy Cycling7:53Apple Music ↗

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