RIP Robert Miles

Fretwired

Wow .. Robert Miles dies aged 47 ... quite a shock :-(

I still listen to his album Dreamland ...

thecolourbox

Was that the Italian one, "Children" wasn't it? If so, lovely electronic music that I think has stood the test of time much more than others around the same time

Fretwired

thecolourbox said:

Was that the Italian one, "Children" wasn't it? If so, lovely electronic music that I think has stood the test of time much more than others around the same time

Yep that's him. He gave himself an English sounding name. Was a child prodigy on piano and classical guitar - built his own studio and made trance and electronic music. He was big in the clubs in the mid 90s.

ICBM

That's a shock. He was younger than me too.

I've got a couple of his albums, Dreamland and 23am - beautiful music.

RIP .

EricTheWeary

Not old ( younger than me FFS). Even I have one of his albums. Gosh  

joneve

Currently got Children blasting out in the office in tribute  

thecolourbox

Wasn't his at one point called something like sleepy-rave music or something, as it was supposed to be calming the ravers down a bit so they didn't have car crashes on the way home or something?

But yes, truly beautiful electronic music, a loss for sure. 

EricTheWeary

thecolourbox said:

Wasn't his at one point called something like sleepy-rave music or something, as it was supposed to be calming the ravers down a bit so they didn't have car crashes on the way home or something?

But yes, truly beautiful electronic music, a loss for sure. 

Been described as 'trance' on the news.

thecolourbox

Yeah but Seasick Steve calls his Blues music trance doesn't he. I vaguely recall it being a specific stylistic idea because of people dying in car crashes after raves as they were too high or something, so they started making and playing come-down music instead.

In fact just seen this on BBC news, therefore it's probably actually not true:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39871459

Fretwired

thecolourbox said:

Wasn't his at one point called something like sleepy-rave music or something, as it was supposed to be calming the ravers down a bit so they didn't have car crashes on the way home or something?

But yes, truly beautiful electronic music, a loss for sure. 

Chill-out music ... it was designed to bring ravers 'down' before they left a club. You're spot on about the car crashes.

tone1

I've never heard of him, I will check his work out.
R.I.P