Part of guitar work is surely taken and reworked from the bass guitar/synth of first track of this release:https://www.discogs.com/Patrick-OHearn-Ancient-Dreams/master/33989

RIP Robert Miles. Children is one of my absolute favourite tracks!

Children was a big big summer hit across Europe in 1996.Sad that Robert Miles passed away to soon at the age of 47.R.I.P Robert Cocina:-(

Isn't the first part of the voice in the Message version a bit out of key (off-key)? Anyways I don't really like the Message version at all.

Found a very interesting fact about Children: The main piano riff that myself and many other people fell in love with is in fact, sampled off an obscure Russian Rock song by the name of "Napoi Menia Vodoi" ("Quench My Thirst") by Garik Sukachov. I was very surprised to have stumbled across this fact looking at the Robert Miles "Children" wiki (At time of writing). I quickly Googled the song to listen to it on Youtube, and there is indeed a striking resemblance. I've browsed the Robert Miles - "Children" page many times before. But never stumbled across this obscure fact.Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5eCLUqK6IY (Skip to 1:23)This Russian Rock song was released in 1988. At least 7 years before the debut of "Children". Very few people know about this little trivia. There is also a chance that the melody was influenced from another Russian musical piece as well.Casually browsing for more information, I discovered that the guitar riffs from "Children" are also sampled from another track: Patrick O' Hearn - Ancient Dreams (1985) Now that I think about it, this track might have influnced Garik's "Napoi Menia Vodoi" to begin with, seeing how it was released first.Link to track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkle9ODO2OcI have had in mind that Italians are notorious for ripping off excepts from other pieces and creating new pieces. Though I with pure ignorance thought "Children" was a unique piece of music. It took me almost 10 years to figure out that "Children" was all along a sample fest. I still enjoy "Children" to this day, though ever since I made this discovery. I will give Robert Miles a lot less credit than I beforehand did. To make things even worse, Robert was apparently accused by Hearn in 1997 due to obvious copyright infringement. Seeing how Robert apparently never got permission from Hearn and Hearn was not happy with the end result Robert had created. Funny how many DJ's / Musicians have sampled from, or have created many inferior remixes of "Children" ever since it's popularity reached. I haven't even mentioned the rip off tracks other musicians made during the popularity of "Children" Likely trying to capitalize on "Childrens" success. These tracks I'm referring to are not "Children" remixes. Though they sound very similar. Two examples I'll give are DJ Data - Grand Piano (1996) and Phina - Ironic (1996) (Which BTW is a rip off of another song!) Yet, the real truth about "Children" is known by few people.DJ Data - Grand Piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSxE3T43O1sPhina - Ironic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx-qwZoZ8wMArticle related to Robert's Plagiarism: http://www.mtv.com/news/1432181/children-composer-accused-of-plagiarism/Bottom Line: I BELIEVE IN NOTHING!

my party starter back in 1995, the track that build Union Rave + Unity Rave

Sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

I don't care what people say about this track. It's one of the best commercial electronic music recordings I have ever listen to. It started my passion for electronic music. It helped me discover much more obscure dream house tunes as I searched desperately for similar sounding piano trance tunes. Most important it drove me into discovering great underground music and not some commercial turd. I admit it has aged a bit, but I don't think I will ever find a commercial recording from this decade that sounds better than "Children" You can literally listen to Children hundreds of times and still feel nostalgia. I think most of the people that bash this tune are folks that hate commercially successful hits. You must also remember that the vast majority of Dream house never saw the light of day, was released mainly in Italy, and pressed mostly on vinyl in low numbers. At least Children helped the obscure genre by a freakin lot. I would be pissed as hell if this tune was pressed in low numbers, only on 12" and came from a very small obscure sub label (Some sub label from Discomagic for example.)

Gee, I really didn't know this was a particulary hated track! This track has obviously received the same sort of popularity, hate and overplaying that other commercial instrumental dance tracks like Darude - Sandstorm, Avicii - Levels and Martin Garrix - Animals did many years later. "Most of the people that bash this tune are folks that hate commercially successful hits", also applies to Sandstorm, Levels and Animals! Except, I really like Children, Sandstorm and Levels, but I have never really liked Animals much! Sure, this track doesn't particularly sound like Sandstorm, Levels or Animals, but it has the same sort of negative reputation and commercial success that those three other tracks also had.

About as "soulful" as the NCIS theme tune...... Cheesy & commercial & therefore loved by many.

The commercialization killed it, but for those of us who had picked up on it before it hit the pop charts (I grabbed a copy when Platipus licensed it), it did sound pretty special.

This track has received the same sort of fame/hate/overplaying that Darude - Sandstorm, Avicii - Levels and Martin Garrix - Animals have many years later! "Don't hate it, just because it's too popular" applies to Sandstorm and Levels because I love these this and those two tracks and they clearly don't deserve the hate that they are getting. And yes, this is so much better than Animals is (in my opinion) because I don't like Animals much and love this track!

I've thought the same sort of thing about Martin Garrix - Animals, but Robert Miles - Children is MUCH better than Animals is! Look at Animals' discogs page, it's full of hate comments- http://www.discogs.com/Martin-Garrix-Animals/master/604622

still much more better than many stupid cheesy & commercial music tunes nowadaysdon't hate it,just because it's too popular....it's out of what "robert miles" expect about this release. commercial is bad,agree,but doesn't mean all bad,rarely you see good music,this release is one big example

If i was asked what's my favourite song, i would probably answer it's impossible to say. But if I just had to, i guess 'Children' from Robert Miles could well be the answer. The dream version is the true gem, the song that was played on radio stations. However the true original and the message version are also fantastic. No other song means more to me than this one, probably the most important reason for making me interested in electronic music, especially trance music. Whenever i hear this, i think of my whole life, my childhood and my love for electronic music. Impossible to describe in words, deeply moving music that makes you cry. I feel sorry for those who can't appreciate this treasure.

man If I had to write a review for this track, I'd say these exact words that are yours...it's my first ever record and I'll never forget it! It still makes me dream!cheers