Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada (1998)

Cryptic music that at once feels from the future and found from the 70s, the Scottish group's (first and last case of stolen Canadian valor?) debut studio album features the duo utilizing samplers, detuned vintage synths, drum machines and reel to reel recorders to create its spacey and timeless sound. Among the wide variety of samples, we get several from Sesame Street, bird's chips from when the studio's window was left open, The duo decided that the track was enhanced by the natural sounds, the musical 'Hair' and loops of children's voices.

Critics at the time instantly recognized MHTRTC as a landmark in electronic music and retrospective reviews have been even kinder to BoC's singular debut — Allmusic noted how widely copied it has been since, and Pitchfork stated that the duo "tapped into the collective unconscious".

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