Louis is married with two sons and lives in Croydon. He splits music production between the Broken Drum Records studio and various software packages on his home PC.  'The biggest problem I've got writing music is often getting my eldest son to stop playing computer games and give me some time on the PC.'

'My mum is very musical and when I was a teenager she took a degree in music at evening classes which meant that I heard a lot of unusual music, especially 20th Century experimental stuff.  I tried learning loads of different instruments none of which really sparked my enthusiasm.  Guitar, piano, recorder, tuba and double bass were all things that I started learning but never really worked at, then when I was 16 I started playing bass guitar with a mate who was into heavy metal.  We formed a band with a drummer who lived up the road from Fil (the guitarist) and rehearsed every week for a couple of years without ever really playing a gig.  When that band split I kept my hand in playing here and there but never as seriously as I did back when I was in that band.  I tracked down Toby the drummer a few months back and found that he'd moved out to Australia and Fil Eisler spent a number of years playing bass for Robbie Williams before forming his current band izler'.

Louis met Vince back in 1987 and was a fan of Secret Archives of the Vatican's tape releases from the very first one in 1989.  In 1996 Louis started working with Vince on some tracks for a live set at the Cross Rhythms festival. 

'Back then it was several MIDI units controlled from an Atari ST, which we were still using up until 2005, running through a little Mackie 8 channel mixer to DAT.  It was the first time I'd ever programmed up music or played with electronic sources.  The whole time I've known Vince he's been pushing me to listen to new stuff, some of which has really resonated and some of which hasn't.  The opportunity to explore some of those ideas and try writing with a totally new sound palate (especially with tabla sounds from the Proteus World module) was really exciting.'

'Since then we've got a lot of different kit; the Soundscape HD recorder for example was a huge step forward and made Reformation a possibility, but the core is still trying to find new sounds and ideas and exploring ways to use them that are different.  My musical tastes have changed hugely from the late 80s where I was listening to heavy metal and almost nothing else. I've spent a lot of time listening to drum and bass, Indian classical, dub reggae, electronica, rai and more recently loads of tango but I'm still interested in finding new ideas to explore.  I think that's what Vince and I are really good at, not getting stuck into any kind of rut but constantly looking for new things to incorporate.'

'The Uncle Riotous stuff was fun to do and I needed to explore that outside Secret Archives because I really wanted to produce loads of different dub tunes but the strength of Secret Archives is that anything that we discover we bring in and put in the pot. It means that neither of us are ever going to out-grow the band, it'll just keep growing with us.'