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77-471: Roberto Concina ( Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto konˈtʃiːna] ; 3 November 1969 – 9 May 2017), known professionally as Robert Miles , was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. His 1995 composition " Children " sold more than 5 million copies and topped the charts worldwide. Robert Miles was born in Fleurier , Switzerland, to Italian parents. Miles became proficient at playing

154-489: A Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act 1997 (Miles was the only Italian artist to have received the award until its final award for that category in 2012), a World Music Award as World's Best Selling Male Newcomer, and various other awards. Miles' next single was " Fable ". Part of this song was used in the theatrical trailer for the U.S. movie Ever After (see Ever After § Trailer ) starring Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott . His debut album Dreamland

231-428: 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. "Children" cost £150 to record. "Children" is one of the pioneering tracks of Dream house, a genre of electronic dance music characterized by dream-like piano melodies, and

308-425: A soundtrack . In the late 1980s, cognitive psychology and psychology of music started an investigation on the impact that the soundtrack exerts on the interpretation of audiovisual stimuli. Canadian psychologist Annabel J. Cohen is one of the first scholars who systematically studied the relationship between music and moving image within the interpretation process of brief animated videos. Her studies converged in

385-463: A trance and chill-out piece based on acoustic guitar chords and soft synthesizer effects, " Children ", which was later developed into a dream house song featuring a piano theme on top. The single picked up sales slowly; however, within two weeks of its official release in 1995, it had sold more than 350,000 copies all over Europe and topped the charts in many countries. The single received an unprecedented "Essential Tune of The Week" three weeks in

462-561: A "trancey Italian 'dream music' instrumental". A reviewer from People Magazine called it a " techno -requiem". Synthmania.com, which identifies "Children" as being written on a Kurzweil K2000 , calls this the " dream house piano" sound, consisting of "standard piano, syn bass and string/pad sounds bathed in delay and reverb ". "Children" was first released in Italy in January 1995 on Joe T. Vanelli's DBX imprint label, as part of

539-515: A blockbuster film is released, or during and after a television series airs, an album in the form of a soundtrack is typically released alongside that. A soundtrack typically contains instrumentation or alternatively a film score . But it can also feature songs that were sung or performed by characters in a scene (or a cover version of a song in the media, rerecorded by a popular artist), songs that were used as intentional or unintentional background music in important scenes, songs that were heard in

616-475: A book. 'Kaladin', a book soundtrack to popular fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson's book, 'The Way of Kings', was written by The Black Piper. The Black Piper, hailing from Provo, Utah, is a combined group of composers who share a love for fantasy literature. 'Kaladin' was funded through Kickstarter and raised over $ 112,000. It was released December 2017. A New York Times Bestselling series, Green Rider by Kristen Britain , celebrated its 25th anniversary with

693-602: A box set with an audiocassette entitled Music and Poetry of the Kesh , featuring three performances of poetry, and ten musical compositions by Todd Barton. In comics, Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron had an official soundtrack album. The original black-and-white Nexus #3 from Capitol comics included the Flexi-Nexi which was a soundtrack flexi-disc for the issue. Trosper by Jim Woodring included

770-470: A commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM 's 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern , Till the Clouds Roll By . The album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album. In order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. This

847-402: A film each has its own separate track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track, which is heard in the film. A dubbing track is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in

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924-424: A film's music track, because they usually consist of isolated music from a film, not the composite (sound) track with dialogue and sound effects. The term original soundtrack (OST) , often used for titles of albums of soundtrack music, is sometimes also used to differentiate the original music heard and recorded versus a rerecording or cover version . Types of soundtrack recordings include: The soundtrack to

1001-399: A group) and they asked me whether they can use the melody from the song "Napoi menia vodoi" ("Quench my thirst") in their sample (or something like that). I answered "yes, it's ok, why not". Soundtrack In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production . Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in

1078-404: A more dark thriller would compose of hard rock or urban music . In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture (L'assasinat du duc de Guise), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s. Henry Mancini , who won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for his soundtrack to Peter Gunn , was the first composer to have

1155-412: A motion picture or television soundtrack. Majority of top charting songs were those featured or released on a film or television soundtrack album. In recent years the term soundtrack sort of subsided. It now mostly commonly refers to instrumental background music used in that media. Popular songs featured in a film or television series are instead highlighted and referenced in the credits, not as part of

1232-512: A part to it that references the main tune. Upon including the track on 2002's The Very Best of Euphoria compilation, TheManAdam, co-creator of the Euphoria series of trance DJ mix albums, said that it "had a major influence on [his] generation of remixers and producers when [they] all at first started making trance". American entertainment company BuzzFeed listed "Children" at number 41 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of

1309-558: A row on Pete Tong 's show, causing a furious bidding war. It was then signed to Deconstruction Records in the UK by Giles Goodman of Dynamik Music (who represented Platipus Records the initial UK licensee). After occupying the Euro Top 100 chart number 1 spot for thirteen consecutive weeks (see European Hot 100 Singles ) by 1997, "Children" had sold more than five million copies worldwide. It earned Miles platinum records in many countries,

1386-486: A soundtrack album composed and performed by Bill Frisell , and the Absolute Edition of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is planned to include an original vinyl record . The Crow released a soundtrack album called Fear and Bullets to coincide with the limited edition hardcover copy of the graphic novel. The comic book Hellblazer released an annual with a song called Venus of

1463-461: A soundtrack album to his novel Battlefield Earth entitled Space Jazz . He marketed the concept album as "the only original sound track ever produced for a book before it becomes a movie". There are two other soundtracks to Hubbard novels, being Mission Earth by Edgar Winter and To the Stars by Chick Corea . The 1985 novel Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin originally came in

1540-582: A steady four-on-the-floor bass drum . The creation of dream house was a response to social pressures in Italy during the early 1990s: the growth of rave culture among young adults, and the ensuing popularity of nightclub attendance, had created a weekly trend of deaths due to car accidents as clubbers drove across the country overnight, falling asleep at the wheel from strenuous dancing as well as alcohol and drug use . In mid-1996, deaths due to this phenomenon, called strage del sabato sera (Saturday night slaughter) in Italy, were being estimated at 2000 since

1617-434: A widespread hit with a song from a soundtrack. Before the 1970s, soundtracks (with a few exceptions), accompanied towards musicals , and was an album that featured vocal and instrumental, (and instrumental versions of vocal songs) musical selections performed by cast members. Or cover versions of songs sung by another artist. After the 1970s, soundtracks started to include more diversity, and music consumers would anticipate

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1694-402: Is also sometimes used for Broadway cast recordings. Contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live! , which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013. The album , released three days before the broadcast, contained studio pre-recordings by the original cast of all the songs used in the special, but because only

1771-518: Is an instrumental composition by Italian composer Robert Miles . It was first released in Italy in January 1995 as part of the EP Soundtracks on Joe Vannelli 's DBX label, but it did not chart. Vannelli brought the track to a nightclub in Miami where it was heard by Simon Berry of Platipus Records . Berry worked with Vannelli and James Barton (of Liverpool's Cream nightclub) to release

1848-410: Is simply used for promotional purposes for well known artists, or new or unknown artists. These soundtracks contain music not at all heard in the film/television series, and any artistic or lyrical connection is purely coincidental. However depending on the genre of the media the soundtrack of popular songs would have a set pattern; a lighthearted romance might feature easy listening love songs, whilst

1925-515: The Gavin Report wrote, "In the time it takes you to listen to this song, another nation has probably taken this remarkable instrumental to the top of their chart. Name a country, and it's likely Number One there right now. And now the music of this classically trained Italian pianist/producer is set to descend on the airwaves and dance floors in the U.S.A. The melody is hypnotic." James Hamilton from Music Week ' s RM Dance Update deemed it

2002-531: The Congruence-Association Model of music and multimedia . More recent empirical studies proved that the film music goes far beyond the role of an emotionalizing accessory in film contexts; contrarily, it can radically alter the empathy experienced by the viewers toward the characters on screen, attributed emotions (e.g., whether a character is happy or sad), evaluation of the scenic environments, plot anticipations, and moral judgement of

2079-657: The Mont-Blanc Tunnel . The second video, filmed on location in New York , was directed by Elizabeth Bailey and premiered in February 1996. It was filmed in colour and alternates between images of Miles DJing at a nightclub rave and images of children at play, thereby touching upon both of the themes of the instrumental. In the 1999 Neo-Geo game, Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves , the track Spread The Wings has

2156-603: The Platipus Records Volume 2 compilation released worldwide via Dynamik Music. "Children" was a success worldwide, peaking at number one in more than 12 countries and holding that position for several weeks. "Children" reached number one in the following countries: Austria (six weeks), Belgium, Denmark, Finland (three weeks), France (11 weeks), Italy, Norway (five weeks), Germany, Scotland (three weeks), Spain, Sweden (seven weeks) and Switzerland (13 weeks); beyond that, according to Billboard magazine, it reached

2233-753: The Soundtracks EP. Subsequently, following exposure at a gathering of DJs and record producers in Miami, the track was licensed by the UK-based Platipus Records who were represented by UK licensing agency Dynamik Music. In conjunction with Miles' manager, Gavin Prunas, the track was licensed to Deconstruction Records ; it was then licensed to more than a dozen additional record labels in Europe through DBX, Deconstruction as well as appearing on

2310-529: The Troféu HQ Mix (Brazilian most important comic book award) in the category "Special Homage". As Internet access became more widespread, a similar practice developed of accompanying a printed work with a downloadable theme song , rather than a complete and physically published album. The theme songs for Nextwave , Runaways , Achewood , and Dinosaur Comics are examples of this. The novella Chasing Homer (2019) by László Krasznahorkai

2387-471: The closing credits , or songs for no apparent reason related to the media other than for promotion, that were included in a soundtrack. Soundtracks are usually released on major record labels (just as if they were released by a musical artist), and the songs and the soundtrack itself can also be on music charts, and win musical awards. By convention, a soundtrack record can contain all kinds of music including music inspired by but not actually appearing in

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2464-820: The '90s" in 2017. In 2018, Mixmag ranked it among "The 15 Best Mid-90s Trance Tracks", writing, "The track was inspired by photographs of young victims of the Yugoslav war and a desire to relax ravegoers before driving home to reduce car accident deaths. These intentions shine through. Sadly the producer passed away last year, but he showed the world the depth of feeling trance is capable of evoking." In 2023, Switch Disco and English singer-songwriter Ella Henderson heavily sampled "Children" for their single " React ". Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. In 2001, German trance group 4 Clubbers remixed

2541-616: The 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (with the Same Characters and Sound Effects as in the Film of That Title) and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have

2618-480: The 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire was released on a 10-inch LP by Capitol Records and sold so well that the label rereleased it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of Max Steiner 's film music on the reverse. Steiner's score for Gone with the Wind has been recorded many times, but when the film was reissued in 1967, MGM Records finally released an album of the famous score recorded directly from

2695-497: The 1980s Commodore 64 computer. Koji Kondo was an early and important composer for Nintendo games. As the technology improved, polyphonic and often orchestral soundtracks replaced simple monophonic melodies starting in the late 1980s and the soundtracks to popular games such as the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series began to be released separately. In addition to compositions written specifically for video games,

2772-723: The 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire (written by author Steve Perry ), Lucasfilm chose Joel McNeely to write a score. This was an eccentric, experimental project, in contrast to all other soundtracks, as the composer was allowed to convey general moods and themes, rather than having to write music to flow for specific scenes. A project called "Sine Fiction" has made some soundtracks to novels by science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke , and has thus far released 19 soundtracks to science-fiction novels or short stories. All of them are available for free download. Author L. Ron Hubbard composed and recorded

2849-523: The 200th Anniversary Celebration of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia, The MUSE Concerts or the various Greenpeace events (i.e. The First International Greenpeace Record Project , Rainbow Warriors and Alternative NRG ) all had special music, effects and dialogue written especially for the event which later went on sale to the record and later video-buying public. Only a few cases exist of an entire soundtrack being written specifically for

2926-655: The DVD, erasing the alternate vocal masters from the CD and combining the two). Among MGM's most notable soundtrack albums were those of the films Good News , Easter Parade , Annie Get Your Gun , Singin' in the Rain , Show Boat , The Band Wagon , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , and Gigi . Film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era , although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Alex North 's score for

3003-497: The Hardsell , which was then recorded and a music video to accompany with. The Brazilian graphic novel Achados e Perdidos ( Lost and Found ), by Eduardo Damasceno and Luís Felipe Garrocho , had an original soundtrack composed by musician Bruno Ito . The book was self-published in 2011 after a crowdfunding campaign and was accompanied by a CD with eight songs (one for each chapter of the story). In 2012, this graphic novel won

3080-504: The United Kingdom, BBC Radio 1 did not play "Children" on its daytime playlist at first, though Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong did play it for three weeks in a row on his Essential Selection program in 1996. Tong's appointing it Essential Tune of The Week each week for three weeks in a row culminated in a frenzied bidding war amongst UK major record companies. Meanwhile, Kiss FM was among the first to play it, even using it in one of

3157-567: The advent of CD technology allowed developers to incorporate licensed songs into their soundtrack (the Grand Theft Auto series is a good example of this). Furthermore, when Microsoft released the Xbox in 2001, it featured an option allowing users to customize the soundtrack for certain games by ripping a CD to the hard-drive. As in Sound of Music Live! the music or dialogue in question

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3234-444: The advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s. First conceived by movie companies as a promotional gimmick for new films, these commercially available recordings were labeled and advertised as "music from the original motion picture soundtrack ", or "music from and inspired by the motion picture." These phrases were soon shortened to just "original motion picture soundtrack ." More accurately, such recordings are made from

3311-496: The characters. Furthermore, eyetracking and pupillometry studies found that film music is able to influence gaze direction and pupil dilation depending on its emotional valence and semantic information conveyed. Recently, new experiments showed that film music can alter time perception while watching movies; in particular, soundtracks deemed as activating and arousing lead to time overestimation as opposed to more relaxing or sad music. Lastly, soundtracks have been proved to shape

3388-486: The composition in November 1995 as the lead single from Miles's debut album, Dreamland (1996). "Children" was certified gold and platinum in several countries and reached number one in more than 12 countries; it was Europe's most successful single of 1996. Miles gave two inspirations for the writing of "Children". One was as a response to photographs of child Yugoslav war victims that his father had brought home from

3465-424: The films finish their theatrical runs and some have become extremely rare collectors' items. In a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the film's musical score. The ground-breaking film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3542-554: The first was directed by Matt Amos and premiered in November 1995. It features black-and-white footage of a small girl riding in a car through a diverse range of landscape. The locations are London (Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square), Paris (the Eiffel Tower can be seen), Geneva (place du Molard, rue Coutance), Morges (marina with small towers) and countryside in Switzerland (where Miles was born), and France and Italy near

3619-425: The larger instruments may be pre-recorded onto a backing track and the remaining instruments may play live, or the reverse may occur in such instances as Elvis: The Concert or Sinatra: His Voice. His World. His Way both of which use isolated vocal and video performances accompanied by a live band. In the case of event soundtracks, large public gatherings such as Hands Across America , The Live Aid Concert,

3696-495: The master take used in the film could not be found in its isolated form (without the M&;E), the aforementioned alternate masters and alternate vocal and solo performances might be used instead. As a result of all this ambiguity, over the years the term soundtrack began to be commonly applied to any recording from a film, whether taken from the actual film soundtrack or re-recorded in the studio at an earlier or later time. The term

3773-483: The memory of the scene that the viewers form, to the point of biasing their recall coherently with the music's semantic contents. Soundtrack may also refer to music used in video games. While sound effects were nearly universally used for action happening in the game, music to accompany the gameplay was a later development. Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway were early composers of music specifically for video games for

3850-435: The movie; the score contains only music by the original film's composers. Contemporaneously, a soundtrack can go against normality, (most typically used in popular culture franchises) and contains recently released and/or exclusive never before released original pop music selections, (some of which become high charting records on their own, which due to being released on another franchises title, peaked because of that) and

3927-544: The native language of its territory. Current dictionary entries for soundtrack document soundtrack as a noun, and as a verb. An early attempt at popularizing the term sound track was printed in the magazine Photoplay in 1929. A 1992 technical dictionary entry in the Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology does not distinguish between the form sound track and soundtrack. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with

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4004-541: The new single "Paths" with vocals provided by Nina Miranda of Smoke City . Guests on the album included Trilok Gurtu , Bill Laswell and Nitin Sawhney . Music from Organik was used on various movie soundtracks such as The Bourne Identity , Derrida , and City of Ghosts . It was licensed to Narada Productions ' Shakti Records label in the USA. In 2002, an album containing mainly remixes of songs found on Organik

4081-400: The orchestral portion of the material from the album is the same as that used in the special (i.e., the vocals were sung live over a prerecorded track), this creates a similar technicality. Although the instrumental music bed from the CD will lock to picture, the vocal performances will not (although it is possible to create a complete soundtrack recording by lifting the vocal performances from

4158-410: The original film cast, but which had been edited or rearranged for time and content and would not lock to picture. In reality, however, soundtrack producers remain ambiguous about this distinction, and titles in which the music on the album does lock to picture may be labeled as OCS and music from an album that does not lock to picture may be referred to as OMPS. The phrase "recorded directly from

4235-550: The piano during his youth in Friuli , Italy, in the small town of Fagagna , where his family moved when he was young, and had been in the music scene since 1984. He worked as a DJ in some Italian clubs and private radio networks, and in 1990 he used his savings to establish his own recording studio and a pirate radio station . Originally performing under the name Robert Milani, he changed his last name to Miles in anticipation of "the musical journey ahead of him". In 1994, Miles wrote

4312-674: The release of a book soundtrack by the same name. It was recorded in Utah, featuring artist Jenny Oaks Baker and William Arnold and was released in 2018. A soundtrack for J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony. Commissioned in 1995, it was finally put on disk in 2000 by the San Luis Obispo Symphony. For

4389-645: The single's release, while in Belgium radio play only followed by crossing over from club play, and in the Netherlands radio play was the primary factor in the single's promotion. In Germany, a domestic release came after demand built up from club play through promotional releases from the UK and Italy. In the US, major airplay included pioneering Los Angeles-area dance music station "Groove Radio 103.1," which used "Children" as its first-ever track on 21 June 1996. In

4466-632: The song and released it as a single. It reached the top 20 in Spain and charted in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In 2012, Jack Holiday and Mike Candys released their version of "Children" as a single, titled "Children 2012". Мне позвонили (то ли итальянский исполнитель, то ли группа), которые хотели бы использовать мелодию из песни "Напои меня водой" в каком-то семпле там (или что-то такое). Я сказал "да, милости просим, почему нет". They phoned me (either an Italian performer, or

4543-433: The song was written before "Children". Sukachov said that he gave his consent for the melody to be used, though there are doubts on that. "Children" received widespread acclaim from critics, with many calling the track a masterpiece. AllMusic editor Jose F. Promis described it as "magical". Billboard attributes its widespread success to its melodic nature, characterized by an "instantly recognizable" piano riff (which

4620-482: The soundtrack for the movie documentary The Turn of THIS Century , directed by Peter Beyak and featuring the photography of Life Magazine . He founded a new FM and online alternative radio station, Open Lab , broadcasting from Ibiza , a project bringing together culture, arts, media, technology and innovation. Miles died from metastatic cancer in Ibiza, Spain, on 9 May 2017 at the age of 47. Miles’ OpenLab station

4697-399: The soundtrack" was used for a while in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s to differentiate material that would lock to picture from that which would not (excluding alternate masters and alternate vocals or solos). However, partly because many 'film takes' actually consisted of several different attempts at the song edited together, over time that term became nebulous as well. For example, in cases where

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4774-411: The soundtrack. Like the 1967 rerelease of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo . In recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the biggest-selling film scores of all time was John Williams ' music from the movie Star Wars . Many film score albums go out of print after

4851-437: The start of the decade. The move by DJs such as Miles to play slower, calming music to conclude a night's set, as a means to counteract the fast-paced, repetitive tracks that preceded, was met with approval by authorities and parents of car crash victims. Critic Boris Barabanov claimed a similarity between "Children" and Russian singer Garik Sukachov 's song "Напои меня водой" ("Napoi menia vodoi" – "Quench my thirst"), and says

4928-488: The station's minute-long television commercials. "Children" reached the number two position on the UK Singles Chart prior to promotion and marketing, and became the year's eighth best-selling single. Billboard ascribes the final stage of the composition's promotion to the airing of its accompanying music video on music television networks such as MTV Europe and Germany's VIVA . Two videos were produced,

5005-443: The style of Decca Broadway show cast albums mostly because the material on the discs would not lock to picture, thereby creating the largest distinction between 'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' which, in its strictest sense would contain music that would lock to picture if the home user would play one alongside the other and 'Original Cast Soundtrack' which in its strictest sense would refer to studio recordings of film music by

5082-598: The top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. French nightclubs began playing the imported record from Italy in 1995, making France one of the first countries to popularize the track. Spreading through the underground from clubs to, eventually, the radio, it was licensed there by an independent record label in November 1995. Spain and Italy itself were the other early adopters that brought the track into clubs. Club charts in these countries signalled "Children"'s popularity to other countries: In Denmark, club and radio play followed

5159-601: The top five in "every European country that has a singles chart". It spent 13 weeks at number one on the Eurochart Hot 100 , reached number two on the UK staying 17 weeks on the chart, and it reached number 21 in the US, holding that position for four weeks. Along with U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. 's reworking of the Mission: Impossible theme, it marked the first time since November 1985 that two instrumentals had simultaneously charted in

5236-451: Was a collaboration with percussionist Trilok Gurtu and included jazz and electronica elements. Also guesting on the album were Nitin Sawhney , Jon Thorne , Mike Patto and Paul Falloon. Miles' fifth album, entitled Thirteen , was released worldwide on Salt Records in February 2011. For this album, Miles produced a blend of alternative and progressive rock with ambient and electronic soundscapes. In 2012 Miles finished working on

5313-602: Was before tape existed, so the record producer needed to copy segments from the playback discs used on set, then copy and re-copy them from one disc to another adding transitions and cross-fades until the final master was created. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original and the sound quality suffered for it. The playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry (without reverberation); otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy. MGM Records called these "original cast albums" in

5390-430: Was issued by Warner Bros Records as a 2-LP set containing virtually all the dialogue from the film. RCA Victor also issued a double-album set what was virtually all the dialogue from the film soundtrack of A Man for All Seasons , Decca Records issued a double-album for Man of La Mancha and Disney Music Group (formerly Buena Vista Records) issued a similar double-album for its soundtrack for The Hobbit . When

5467-734: Was not in the track's original version). They identify this factor as making the track accessible to a broader audience beyond clubbers and fans of electronic dance music alone by means of radio airplay . The magazine's Larry Flick noted that Miles "wisely takes his time unraveling his melody, letting it breathe over an urgent, nu-NRG beat and coloring it with twinkling electro effects and vibrant synths. Joyous and invigorating as can be, "Children" deserves to be one of those rare records that never fades beyond recurrent status on any DJ's playlist. We need to hear more from Miles ... and we need to hear it now ." Daina Darzin from Cash Box viewed it as "a trancey , dramatic dance track". Dave Sholin from

5544-669: Was one of the key tracks on his second album 23am , featuring vocals provided by Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge . Containing a different feel from the previously more club-oriented Dreamland , 23am incorporated more lyrics-driven songs than its predecessor while maintaining Miles' trademark piano sound from the first album. After splitting from Deconstruction , BMG and his former management in London, he set up his own independent record label Salt Records (stylised as S:alt Records, with S:alt being short for suitably:alternative) in 2001 and released his third album, Organik , featuring

5621-474: Was prepared specifically for use in or at an event such as that described above. In the case of theme parks, actors may be ensconced in large costumes where their faces may be obscured. They mime along to a prerecorded music, effects and narration track that may sound as if it was lifted from a movie, or may sound as if it had been overly dramatized for effect. In the case of cruise ships, the small stage spaces do not allow for full orchestration, so that possibly

5698-431: Was published with an original soundtrack by Miklos Szilveszter, accessible through a QR code at the start of each chapter. In Japan , such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack a radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an image album or image song , though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by

5775-595: Was released on 7 June 1996 in Europe, and released in the United States about a month later. The album included a cover of " One and One " featuring British singer Maria Nayler. This cover became very popular (it reached number 1 in the Euro Top 100 Singles Chart during the Christmas period and remained in the top spot for six consecutive weeks) and was later released as a single in Europe and the U.S. In November 1997, Miles released another track, " Freedom ", which

5852-426: Was released. The album, appropriately entitled Organik Remixes , contained remixes by the winners of the remixing contest held on Robert Miles's Web site, as well as remixes from well-known artists such as Future Sound of London , Riton , and Alexkid among others. The album also had one new track, "Bhairav", which featured the vocals of Amelia Cuni . In 2004, Miles released Miles Gurtu , his fourth album, which

5929-482: Was taken off-air shortly afterwards, pending discussions on the future of the station. After receiving many messages from people expressing dismay at the station's suspension, it was announced that the station would be returning soon in 2019, starting with a live radio stream in January 2019 and followed by a reboot to radio on 106.4 FM in Ibiza in April 2019. Studio albums Children (composition) " Children "

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