So to start: for the uninitiated, what is 'bruk house'?

It’s just a hybrid of house and broken – it's very unintentional but works either way.

You are producing for almost 10 years now. You've obviously been influenced by the broken beat sound.

Well, it's the complete opposite actually. In all honesty the only thing that influenced me was its liberty and freedom in terms of musical expression at the time of its birth. I was, at the time, an unknown fledgling, producing drum and bass and involved in a long-running British hip hop/trip hop project when I happened to be fatefully introduced to the then emerging godfathers of broken beat.

I honestly at first thought it was a bit up its own arse at first then I realised it had all the essential qualities that I loved so much in drum and bass but with a kind of refined edge. At that time the whole drum and bass thing was becoming more formulaic, so this felt like the right wrong move.

I also liked how broken beat at the time had no set tempo or "formula" - essentially what you are hearing is what I want to hear from the sound or part of the spectrum of what I think people want to hear in broken beat.

The broken sound grew around the Co-op club. But the 'glory days' have passed and many of the originators seem to be making different stuff these days. Why do you think that is?

Glory days?! Ha ha! I missed that then, was there fireworks, balloons and shit? I think what you have to realise is that the majority of the "originators" had roots pretty deep set before they embarked on the whole broken thing - for example, IG Culture was part of a pretty well established UK hip hop production duo back in the day called Dodge City.

Same goes for 4 Hero - these guys were my heroes as a teenager. They single-handedly created the template for drum and bass/jungle - yet all these guys (then chose to expend) an incredible amount of positive creativity in their part in shaping what was broken beat. All these guys were always originating something or other before and after the fact.

Do you see yourself as continuing the West London sound?

That was a tag started by a record shop - I think it was Honest Jon's - because there were no other distributors doing broken. It was solely distributed by Goya back then who were west London based - it got tagged 'west London sound/beats' because every release had a Goya sticker on it with their address and the W10 London postcode - so it stuck from that.

I really don't see my stuff as carrying the baton of what they started or holding the torch - it's more of a complimentary mutation. It suits my mentality and personality I guess - but in all honesty I'm a trouble maker. F**k west London! Ha ha! I'm joking... a little bit.

What else influences you?

I’m really influenced by life. I use my writing time to document how I was feeling that particular moment in time - because that's how I deal with it I guess. For example, someone will die and it'll inspire me to write a track...like 'My Father (RIP)'. I couldn't do anything but sit down and thrash it out there, as bad or disrespectful it may seem, on returning from hospital on the day of my father's death. It was my way of coping with my grief and honouring him I guess...

The music you make feels like a very 'London' sound – a mix of everything that you hear in the city…

My sound is London through and through. My sound is also a extension of my own identity as a entity in any scene that I put my production to. The Altered Natives name was created from my mixed blood born to British soil. And it’s a play on the word 'alternative' – there is a lot of mixture in my sound.

What are your weapons of choice in the studio?

Plenty of Rizla, imagination, my G Series SSL (compressor), string and tin cans.

What instruments do you play?

None professionally. My brother was the more musical one when we were kids. I was an artist and into graffiti before I got into music.

How do you source vocalists for your various projects?

I have been blessed with the ones I have worked with so far – and I'm slowly finding the right vocalist for the right tracks, only just recently. But it has been a pleasure to have featured Amalia and Aisling Stephenson - they are pretty awesome ladies. I recently finished a house track featuring the amazing Sacha Williamson, who blesses the track with her heart and soul, it's truly beautiful. As she is based in Canada it was all long distance, so when I received her vocals for the track it was like re-affirming Father Christmas really does exists.

You describe yourself as a 'drum scientist'. Do explain...

Did I describe myself as a drum scientist? I just love drums, maybe I'm a bit too much in love with drums. It does take some degree of science to take one recognisable drum break and turn it into something near unrecognisable and half inventive. And I like slicing up beats and re-imagining them like Dr Frankenstein.

Do you get much support on radio?

Recently legal and pirate radio has been supporting my tracks, which is very positive. I'm also a DJ on one of London’s leading pirates, www.vulive.co.uk, so hearing reports or actually hearing DJs on so-called rival stations playing my stuff is a very good indicator that I'm on the right path.

What's next for Altered Natives?

I'm releasing the follow-up to 'A Thousand Days Of Patience' in June – and it's looking very interesting to say the least. The idea with 'A Thousand Days...' was to quench the thirst of everyone who wanted a pure dirty broken/bruk album so I hope everyone's ready for the next episode. I'm looking forward to the next few DJ gigs and I'm planning an artist album – not pure dirty bruk like the last one. And I'm also looking forward to a well deserved holiday break. I need to get away, somewhere…