Took a bit of time out as I’ve recently had a beautiful baby daughter, Isabelle. She will no doubt be the source of much inspiration over the coming months and years.
Finally got “Deep Inside” nailed and am over the moon with the end result. Both mixes are below. By all means comment on them here [...]
Tags: Altus, Deep inside, House, James Reynolds, Marcella Woods
A few weeks ago i was talking on a music production forum and i got a message from someone called Darren asking if i was the Altus who did “Change your Cover” (there’s another, impostor, Altus who came along after me, but that’s another story).
So, i said “yeah, why?”
and he said” “for fuck’s sake man! [...]
Tags: album, Altus, Baldeelox, Change your cover, Darren Holland, Tuff Mix
The remix was much more banging. A couple of BPM faster and with much tuffer beats, this was aimed squarely at the dancefloor. I found a sample of some crazy voodoo type guy chanting some incomprehensible nonsense, so chopped it up and laid it over the beats – giving a slightly tribal and [...]
So, this was my first release under the name of Altus. This came out on white label vinyl in May 2004.
The two mixes:
Original Soulful mix
Funked up mix
both went down with DJs in the, then, very trendy soulful house scene.
Due to a lack of promotion and backing, this record seemed bound for obscurity, despite copious [...]
Tags: Altus, Another Down tempo, Change your cover, Glenn Lewis, Rhodes, soulful house, What's Phat
