Only a few years earlier, after all, things had certainly looked very different. It was a mission to return to the simplicity and joy of his first steps into the music business. And so Miles took an extensive break from recording, releasing just one album over the next decade and re-arranging his life. In the end, however, accompanying full-length Organik did achieve its original aim of liberating him from major label imprisonment after all - if only because it put him out of touch with an audience expecting him to compose predictable radio jingles. It must have come as a blow to Miles, to whom the piece embodied his renewal as an artist and a fresh chapter in his career. On highly dubious grounds, MTV unexpectedly announced that it had banned the video from being aired which, at the time, immediately sealed the commercial potential of the single. Combining comatose trip hop beats and otherworldy melodies with grimly smouldering oriental flavours, it seemed poised to turn into a cross-over-sensation. In 2001, Robert Miles released „Paths“, a collaboration with former Smoke City vocalist Nina Miranda. Sometimes, setbacks can turn out to be even more important than success.
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