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Dreamland | 
 enlarge | Artist: Robert Miles
Label: Arista
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 7576
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 18930
UPC: 078221893022
EAN: 0078221893022
ASIN: B000002VRQ
Release Date: July 30, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Children | | • | Fable | | • | Fantasya | | • | Landscape | | • | In My Dreams | | • | One and One - Robert Miles, Steinberg, Billy | | • | Princess of Light | | • | Fable | | • | In the Dawn | | • | Children | | • | Red Zone |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
A Swiss-born, Italian-raised pianist, Robert Miles serves up numbingly repetitive but lively sub-Moroder disco for 66 unrelenting minutes. While it may make Vangelis sound like Mozart by comparison on the home stereo, this is evidently sheer magic under the mirrorballs of Ibiza, Paris, and Scarborough. --Jeff Bateman
Album Details
Japanese Release featuring the Exclusive Bonus Track Children (Re-Mix), 12 Tracks in all Including Fable (2 Versions), One and One, Landscape, and Others.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 163 more reviews...
 Treat Your Ears to a wonderful dreamland July 26, 2008
Alexandria Ridler (Norfolk Virginia United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the fact that this cd has stood the test of time. I remember when the song "children" by Robert Miles first came out and I was still a teenager then. Fast forward some years later and I decide to take a leap of faith and buy this cd and what honestly helped my decision was overwhelmingly positive reviews. Listening to this cd gives good reason for the numerous positive reviews. Listening to many songs on this cd makes you feel in a positive way that you are in some type of beautiful and mystical dreamland. This cd is a gem because of all the songs on the cd being beautiful, high energy, and upbeat. Some of the most noteworthy songs on this cd are of course the classical "children", "one and one", and both versions of the "fable". This is especially a good cd to listen to during the summer but all year round would still be fine. If you would like to treat yourself to some beautiful music that is a departure from some of the more mainstream music and songs this is one of the cds to go to. Its so unique that I would classify it somewhere between europop and eurodance but in its own category. This is also some good music to listen to if you want to nurture yourself.
 Good house music does not equal good music February 28, 2007
OneLove (so fla)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
2 1/2
Competent though disappointing, this highly referenced trance album cannot escape it's plodding, dated backbone of a beat, no matter how refined and professional the production tries to be. Of course, listening to the album 13 years later, one immediately feels the bland, aged thump soaked into the generic sequencing and tonality, which is not to say the album was not worthy of the praise it garnered upon release-in House-centric circles that is. The thudding, ever present, 4/4 layering of a pulse that guides entirely too much mainstream electronic music out there will vastly undermine any of the dreamy atmosphere heavily present on this ambitious little club-hopper, rendering most of the Yanni-with-edge keyboard melodies banal. Thankfully once in a while, particularly at the start and finish of the disc, a semi-potent spell is afforded these static conditions, allowing Dreamland to shine in refreshingly unrestricted ways.
A Rare techno record that lasts forever January 20, 2007
J. English (Boston USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This brings back so many memories. Before i left Ireland in 1997 the techno wave was in full stregth and Roberto Milano record was all over the airwaves. Listen to it on a beach and dream. In you car and dream. In your bed and dream. Its a dreamland.It has amazing lasting quality and the vocal track with maria nayler is dynamite. Ill never outgrow this record. Its just too good. great for vacation in a hot climate.
 Still listening to this one November 15, 2006
Anthony Allan Hewetson (Lubbock, TX USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first heard this album while sitting in a coffeeshop in Corvallis, Oregon - many years ago - went out and bought the tape immediately . I pretty well fried the casette tape out during long cross-country drives and, as I'm not a huge fan of the genre had decided not to replace it with a CD. Big mistake! I heard One is One again on a college radio station near Austin, Texas in the summer of 2006 and decided to buy it again. I'm now afraid that I might fry the CD out. The music is surprisingly melodic for techno (if that is, indeed, what this is) and, when listened to closely, surprisingly complex. It is also very strong music (without being overly aggressive - there is, after all, such a thing as too much bass) with enough going on in the way of dynamics and signature shifts to keep the listener engaged - even during the longest and loneliest drives across west Texas. If you like early techno (Space comes to mind, even some of the intrumentals by Sky verge on primitive techno) I think you'll like Robert Miles.
Underground legend Robert Miles' first and greatest composition of music on one CD. May 22, 2006
F. A. Barbuto (Syracuse, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first heard the radio version of Children when I was [...]. I had later learned that it was the first techno/trance track to reach the Billboard top 100. That track had such an effect on me, I could not forget the sounds and melodies of the radio version of it until I finally owned a copy of it 8 years later. I listened to Fable, Fantasya, Landscape, and the rest of the album and I realized that Robert Miles, who spear-headed the Dreamhouse category of Techno/Trance, is truly the greatest mixer/music writer of all that is instrumental in electronica/techno/trance. His melodies and piano and excellent use of synths on this album are a stroke of true musical expression and feeling; truly one of a kind and extraordinary. Remember, the international hit heard on the radio "Children" is ONLY on the import. Yes, it is worth the extra cash.
Also, if you like his style of music on this album or his other albums that have been released, I suggest Nightmusic by the Thrillseekers. Both respectively, are 5-Star albums.
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