- New Athens label Nous says it plans to explore the rich cultural heritage of its country. It's fitting, then, that the name Miltiades is taken from a tyrant of ancient Greece, even if the music seems to take its cues from a rather different tradition.
The order of the day here is introspective, Detroit-inspired deep house. Miltiades works with more or less the same palette on "As We," "Iw-ww" and "U1.1": fragile pads, precise snares and hi-hats over a subby kick, and rounded basslines busying themselves quietly down below. All three are lovely and understated, but "Iw-ww" is the finest, with snippets of down-pitched speech and occasional wafts of dissonance adding to the fuzzy, medicated feel. "Epk.x," meanwhile, sees the same basic materials sculpted into a rather paranoid downtempo number, to excellent effect. Chicago's Hakim Murphy provides a typically low-key "refeel" of "Iw-ww." The fidgety percussion and fluid sub-bass are similar to Murphy's recent productions, but there's an anaesthetised sheen to it all that's perfectly in keeping with the original.
Lista de sequência de músicasA1 As We
A2 Lw-ww (Hakim Murphy Refeel)
B1 Lw-ww
B2 U1.1
B3 Epk.x