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Music Has the Right to Children is the debut studio album by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. Since its release in 1998, the album has been acknowledged as a landmark in electronic music with Pitchfork calling it “a beat-music touchstone, a record that took the previous decade of home-listening electronic music and essentially perfected it.”

It’s also the favorite album of my husband, Mark Del Lima.

If you’re at this page, that means you understand that I often make musical gifts for Mark (Elsewhere, Uncanny Valley, School, Def Potec, Attack, Decay, Release…) and for Christmas 2022 I decided to make a remix album.

Mark has often said that he feels that Music Has the Right to Children has roots in hip-hop and often wondered what it would be like if someone rapped on top of a hauntological beat. (The closest he’s heard is “93 ‘Til Infinity” by Souls of Mischief.)

So for the past few months, I’ve been working on a reimagined version of Mark’s favorite album.

So enjoy! I like to think that, even though it’s a “mash-up” album, I still put my musical storytelling to use. And while a lot of the choices were aesthetic (“Rebirth of Slick”), plays on words (“If I Ruled the World”), ironic (“I Need Love”) or sentimental (“See You Again”), remember that this was another musical gift for Mark Del Lima. So if you come across a choice that gives you pause, remember…

xoxohp