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Music Has the Right to Children
The 393rd greatest album of all time
Music Has the Right to Children is Boards of Canada's 1998 debut studio album. It blends electronic, IDM, ambient, downtempo and experimental approaches, using warm analog synth tones, tape-like saturation and subtle warble, short melodic motifs and found-sound samples to create a nostalgic, pastoral atmosphere. Beats are often lo-fi and rhythmically spare, with arrangements that emphasize texture and mood over conventional song structure. The album is widely noted for shaping a distinctive, memory-tinged strain of late 1990s electronic music and has influenced many producers working with analogue warmth and sample-based collages.
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