''Alleys to Valleys'' is the debut album from

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. It was released on 25 August 2003. The album features Ozi Batla and

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from The Herd and Joelistics from

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on the title track "Alley to Valleys". John Stuart, Elgusto's dad, features under the alias Mango Chutney on "Splendid Isolation" and "Damn Man", whilst Aja Stuart, Elgusto's sister, plays keys on "Drunken Dub". ''Alleys to Valleys'' was recorded and mixed by Hermitude and John Stuart at Sound Heaven Studios in

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. The first single released was "Cave Styles", with the video, which was created by Broken Yellow Productions (Broken Yellow Productions is a film production duo of Brendon Doyle and Navid Bahadori), receiving airplay on rage and

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Track listing

All tracks written by

. # "Massive Passive" – 5:21 # "Imaginary Friends" – 4:51 # "Splendid Isolation" – 4:16 # "Alleys To Valleys" – 4:15 # "Section Reckin" – 1:36 # "Cave Styles" – 5:13 # "Moth Journey" – 4:33 # "Highway Burner" – 6:03 # "Space Evaders" – 6:14 # "Drunken Dub" – 1:26 # "Damn Man" – 5:12 # "Fire Up De Converters" – 5:27 # "Gusto's Theme" – 3:23

References

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