Robert Miles

Roberto Concina — born in Switzerland in 1969 and raised in Friuli, northern Italy — created one of the most recognisable instrumental records in electronic music history with "Children" in 1995. The track was reportedly written as a "calming" mix to slow down crowds at the end of nights at Italian raves, where car accidents on the drive home had become a serious concern. It became a global #1, sold over five million copies, and effectively invented the "dream trance" subgenre. His debut album Dreamland (1996) sold over twelve million copies; the follow-up 23am (1997) and the more experimental Organik (2001) showed an artist increasingly interested in ambient, world, and live-instrument production. Miles spent his later years running the OpenLab radio station in Ibiza and championing experimental electronic music. He died in 2017, but "Children" remains a permanent fixture of trance retrospectives.