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COM TRUISE

Foster The People - Helena Beat (Com Truise Remix) by Com Truise

Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth
Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a
12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth
obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”.

Haley’s been making music on the side for roughly a decade—going
through pseudonyms like toothbrushes (Sarin Sunday, SYSTM,
Airliner)—first as a DJ, and currently, as an excavator of softer,
window-fogging synth-wave.

While subliminally informed by both parental record collections and
hints of faded electronics product design, Haley’s Com Truise project
isn’t just nostalgia capitalization. There are fragments (read: DNA
strands) of Joy Division, New Order, and the Cocteau Twins, but it’s
like you’re hearing them through the motherboard of a waterlogged
Xbox—demented and modern. He’s got a way of making familiar things
sound beautifully hand-smeared.

The first Com Truise release was the Cyanide Sisters EP—distributed
for free on the AMdiscs label—where mellow stone-outs like “Sundriped”
and “Slow Peels” sat next to harder IDM bangers (“BASF Ace” and
“IWYWAW”) and bumpy alt-funk trips (“Norkuy” and “Komputer”). After
that came a single “Pyragony/Trypyra,” and a series of eclectic
podcast mixes titled “Komputer Cast.” Now comfortably situated amidst
the Ghostly roster, he’s prepping his next warped pillage, and
hopefully not changing that name again.

Bud Light, Chicago Reader & Sailor Jerry present Tomorrow Never Knows 2012

Com Truisewill be playing with Dom,Lazer Crystal and Chandeliers

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 - 8:00 PM - 18+