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Music Has the Right to Children
Music Has the Right to Children cover
Studio album by Boards of Canada
Released 20 April 1998 (1998-04-20) (Europe)
20 August 1998 (1998-08-20) (U.S.)
Recorded Hexagon Sun studio
Pentland Hills, Scotland
Genre IDM, ambient techno, trip hop
Length 62:58 (Original UK edition)
70:42 (1998 & 2004 edition)
Label Warp, Skam, Matador
Producer Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Sandison
Professional reviews
Boards of Canada chronology
Aquarius
(1998)		 Music Has the Right to Children
(1998)		 Roygbiv/Telephasic Workshop 10"
(1998)

Music Has the Right to Children is the debut album of the Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was published by Warp Records and released on 20 April 1998 in Europe and 20 August in the United States. The album was produced at the Hexagon Sun, the duo's personal recording studio.

The songs utilize a number of field recordings and intense sound manipulation.[1] It is arguably their most critically acclaimed LP.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

# Title Length
1. "Wildlife Analysis"   1:17
2. "An Eagle in Your Mind"   6:23
3. "The Color of the Fire"   1:45
4. "Telephasic Workshop"   6:35
5. "Triangles & Rhombuses"   1:50
6. "Sixtyten"   5:48
7. "Turquoise Hexagon Sun"   5:07
8. "Kaini Industries"   0:59
9. "Bocuma"   1:35
10. "Roygbiv"   2:31
11. "Rue the Whirl"   6:39
12. "Aquarius"   5:58
13. "Olson"   1:31
14. "Pete Standing Alone"   6:07
15. "Smokes Quantity"   3:07
16. "Open the Light"   4:25
17. "One Very Important Thought"   1:14
Bonus track on 1998 U.S. Matador release and 2004 Warp re-release
# Title Length
18. "Happy Cycling"   7:51

[edit] Reception

The album received widespread acclamation upon release.[2][3]

[edit] Miscellanea

 Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2009)
  • "Smokes Quantity" first appeared on Twoism in 1995.
  • The short songs appended to the end of "Triangles and Rhombuses" and "Sixtyten" predate the album and were later featured on the unofficial compilation Old Tunes, Vol. 1, where they are separate tracks.
  • Several of the tracks on this album also appear on Boc Maxima, albeit in a different form.
  • "Pete Standing Alone" is the name of a Blood Indian who is the subject of a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada.[4]
  • "Roygbiv" is a mnemonic for colours of the visible spectrum.

[edit] Notes

Digipak-style packaging for the 2004 edition of Music Has the Right to Children
  1. ^ Ariel Kyrou & Jean-Yves Leloup (1998). "Two Aesthetes of Electronic Music". Virgin Megaweb. http://bocpages.org/wiki/Interviews#1998-06:_Virgin_Megaweb. Retrieved on 2006-11-22. 
  2. ^ John Bush (1998). "Music Has the Right to Children Overview". All Media Guide, LLC. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4axsa9rgi23f. Retrieved on 2006-11-22. 
  3. ^ Sal Cinquemani (2002). "Music Review: Music Has the Right to Children". Slant Magazine. http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=255. Retrieved on 2006-11-22. 
  4. ^ National Film Board of Canada (1982). "NFB: Pete Standing Alone". National Film Board of Canada. http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?id=13730&v=h&lg=en&exp= NFB:. Retrieved on 2006-11-23. 

[edit] External links

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Boards of Canada
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Management
Studio albums
Catalog 3 (1987) · Acid Memories (1989) · Closes Vol. 1 (1992) · Play by Numbers (1994) · Hooper Bay (1994) · Twoism (1995) · Boc Maxima (1996) · Music Has the Right to Children (1998) · Geogaddi (2002) · The Campfire Headphase (2005)
Singles & EPs
Live recordings
Live @ Warp10 (1999) · Live @ Lighthouse (2000) · Live @ ATP (2001)
Related articles
Old Tunes
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