My commute from home to work is 30 minutes. A few of my friends around the city have commutes closer to 3 minutes, but I don’t envy them. I treat my commute as a buffer between work and home where I can chill with my iPod and people-watch in the subway.  Therefore, my commute has caused me dig through my music collection for lost gems in order to keep my iPod feeling fresh. If it wasn’t for my commute, I wouldn’t have recently rediscovered Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children.”

Though it was published in ‘98, I didn’t pick it up until about ‘02… but even once I found it, the timing was bad. I was into the Boston indie-metal scene at the time, and the subtle grace of looping ambient music was lost on me. I didn’t really get into it until a few weeks ago on the subway.

“Music Has the Right to Children” is ideal subway music. It’s the perfect soundtrack to darting through a concrete maze in a tin tube, colors and lights blazing by like the ending to Kubrik’s 2001. Electronica meets post-rock with pinch of emotion (so oftening missing from electronica).

If this sounds like it’s up your alley, check out some songs from Boards of Canada on the hype machine.