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Deep Inside – FINALLY ready. Worth the wait!

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:21:24 +0000

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 or on Soundcloud.

ALTUS ft Marcella Woods – Deep Inside – Sexy Sunrise mix by altus

ALTUS – Deep Inside – Jackin’ Bleeps n Beats Dub by altus

The mixes have been sent off to Ibiza today. They will go to the
resident djs at most of the big clubs. Hopefully they will be rinsing the tracks and getting good crowd reactions. We expect to get some feedback in a couple of weeks time. Once I have this I will send on to the specialist radio stations and A&R men. This track deserves to be placed with a decent label. So, that’s what I’m holding out for. Any buzz that’s created in the meantime will only help the cause.

So, by all means pass on to your friends, if you’re feeling it.

Watch this space for further updates…

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Dreamin’ is Reality

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:51:00 +0000

This tune came out on the 25th April 2008.

you can listen to it (and buy it!) here:

I wrote the vocals but this time handed the singing to a talented girl called Taneta This is a more commercial track but, hopefully, still credible. It sounds pretty fresh and has a classic house style piano hook on the original mix. The electro mix is more edgy with some rasping synth sounds created using Native Instruments – Massive. Definitely the plug of the moment for many dance tunes.

There’s 4 mixes:-
Original mix
Electro mix
Dub mix
Radio edit

It’s available through iTunes too. Just search for Altus and it will come up.

i also created an instrumental version of the original mix – this came too late to be included in the release, so I’m giving it away as a DJ promo. You can download it for free below:
Dreamin’ is reality – Instrumental

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Change your cover

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:25:00 +0000

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 airplay on credible London pirates such as House FM.

A label in South Africa, called “What’s Phat” licensed the funked mix for inclusion on the album “Another down tempo – mixed by Glenn Lewis”. For someone used to listening to their records at the intended speed, this was an odd album, but i went with it as i thought it couldn’t hurt. “If they like it at the wrong speed, then great!”, i thought.

Boyd by this unexpected interest, i decided to get back into the studio and remix the track…

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