This Day in History: Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ Roberto Concina, known professionally as Robert Miles, died on this day in 2017 at the young age of 47.
Miles is best known for his Dream Trance hit "Children" which sold more than 5 million copies and topped the charts worldwide. Dream Trance is an early subgenre of trance music that peaked prominently on the international dance scene between 1995 and 1998.
The creation of dream trance 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 around 2000 since the start of the 1990s. "Children" by Robert Miles is one of the pioneering tracks of the genre and was created due to these accidents. 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.
Miles also had 2 other great hits with Fable and One and One.
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