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CMU Approved
Approved: Com Truise
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 November 2010
Every time I mention a ‘chillwave’ artist in this column, I feel the need to apologise all for using such a term. Particularly on this occasion, because although it’s a tag often assigned to him, I’m not sure this artist really fits into the current bête noire of genre titles at all. Actually, he seems to use the term ‘synthwave’. Is that better? I don’t know. Let’s stop talking about pointless categorisations and get on with agreeing that Com Truise, aka producer Seth Haley, is very good.
With an insatiable enthusiasm for vintage synths, the New Jersey resident creates instrumental soundscapes that sound like they’ve come straight out of that mid-80s vision of the future where it’s always dark. It’s the kind of music that makes you feel like slipping a cassette into your Walkman and shooting someone with your knackered old lazer gun. Because that is what it’s like in the future.