Ramblings of Altus

Even after two years, this is still my personal favourite release. If any album needed to be heard in FLAC, it’s Rapid Eye Movements.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a large number of people never heard it since it’s only available in the OGG format. OGG is excellent compression technology (better than MP3), but not supported out-of-the-box by the two most used players (Windows Media Media and iTunes). Of course, neither is FLAC, but my FLAC releases are for a specific audience.

If you’ve not heard Rapid Eye Movements yet, please take the time to either install another player, or the codec to work with your music player of choice. There’s details on the download page.

You can also check it out at last.fm, but keep in mind that they are heavily compressed and takes away from the experience.

The Earth Mantra netlabel has been a great help to reach my goal of having all my releases available in FLAC.

You can now download both Excursion releases (MP3 & FLAC) directly through their site.
http://earthmantra.com/excursionone
http://earthmantra.com/excursiontwo

If you click on the “Release Mirror Site” link on those pages, you can directly download just the FLAC files if you prefer.

Mister Vapor & Altus – Falling Out of Orbit
is now available on Just Not Normal netlabel.

And if you think we’ve heard the best collaboration works yet, then let this one surprise your ears. Mister Vapor (aka the extremely prolific Mystified) joined up with Altus (one of the ambient great netlabel artists). Well fitting in some of the other ‘deep sea dives’ of this months JNN releases this album takes you deeper. Where the wonderful string-drones of Altus meet with the dark-drones of Mister Vapor this is a clash of experimentalism that cannot be missed. We are proud to host this for your ears.

FLAC download available at altusmusic.ca

You can now download the 2005 release Autumn Breeze in FLAC format.

I’d also like to send my best wishes you all for a happy 2010. I’ll be posting my yearly “what’s to expect from Altus this year” fairly soon.