Com Truise - Chemical Legs (at Room 205)

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• published: 08 Jul 2013
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To capture this beautifully lit, wantonly nostalgic ode to "the past's future" with electronic artist Com Truise, we collaborated with director Babak Khoshnoud and producer Will Abramson of SF-based performance series Yours Truly. If you enjoy the sounds of 80s-era video games, Miami Vice vibes, pyramid power, ponderous night lurking, vacant industrial spaces, and serious hands-on synth skills, then you've come to the right spot on the internet. We dedicate this slow, hazy banger of an episode to future-primitives everywhere. BIO Com Truise is just one of the many personas of producer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York. An admitted analog synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom-heavy style he calls "mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk." While subliminally informed by parental record collections and hints of faded electronics product design, Com Truise isn't merely nostalgia capitalization. Within it you'll hear fragmented DNA strands of Joy Division, New Order and Cocteau Twins, but it's like you're hearing them through the motherboard of a waterlogged video game console—-demented, hand-smeared and modern. COMPONENTS Video • YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4EEUwd7e4k37FGlhrN67KSZU8h2GvAV • Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/album/2419668 Photos • Flickr: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjFPFvMU Music • SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/goincase/sets/com-truise-at-room-205 CREDITS Executive Producer • Incase: http://goincase.com Producer • Arlie Carstens: http://disastercasual.typepad.com Associate Producer • Will Abramson: http://yourstru.ly Director & Editor • Babak Khoshnoud: http://babakkhoshnoud.com Director of Photography • Conor Simpson: http://vimeo.com/likeamaniac Set Designer • Tamarra Younis: http://union-of-art.net Production Assistant • Katie Risinger: http://facebook.com/katieferne Audio Engineer • Butchy Fuego: http://butchyfuego.tumblr.com Camera • Babak Khoshnoud: http://babakkhoshnoud.com • Arlie Carstens: http://disastercasual.typepad.com • Conor Simpson: http://vimeo.com/likeamaniac Photos • Arlie Carstens: http://disastercasual.typepad.com Performing Artist • Com Truise: http://comtruise.com Label • Ghostly International: http://ghostly.com Publicity • Terrorbird PR: http://terrorbird.com Room 205 Theme Song • Cora Foxx: http://corafoxx.com