Seth Haley, known by his stage name Com Truise, is an American

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and DJ. His stage name is a

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of the name of American actor

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Biography

Prior to 2010, Haley had released music under the

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s Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, and Airliner. In 2010, the first Com Truise recording, the ''Cyanide Sisters'' EP, was released. Initially, the EP was a free download from the AMDISCS record label.

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digitally reissued it in January 2011. Haley resigned from his job as

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prior to this release. Com Truise remixed

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's song "ENCOM, Part II" for the '' Tron: Legacy Reconfigured'' album soon after. In June 2011, he released his debut album, '' Galactic Melt''. ''

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'' was the immediate full-length followup in 2012. Com Truise's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing. Haley is from

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, and now resides in

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. In February 2022, Com Truise produced the music for

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's viral

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advertisement. He sampled

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' cover of "

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". In April 2022, he released a course on producing music with online music school

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Style

Truise's sound is

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-heavy

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, influenced by 1980s musical styles, as first offered on the ''Cyanide Sisters'' EP; he calls his style "mid-fi synthwave slow-motion funk".

The "Com Truise" saga

All of the Com Truise albums, starting with ''Cyanide Sisters'' and ending with ''Iteration'', tell the story of a space traveller named Com Truise; Haley described the character as a "synthetic astronaut", and the story as a tale about escaping an

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society.

Equipment

Truise uses a mix of digital and analogue hardware, including emulations of classic synthesisers and romplers. According to a 2015

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interview, his DAWs of choice are Reason and Ableton. Since 2017, he has incorporated the Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 on some tracks, also using it during live performances.

Discography

As Com Truise

*'' Galactic Melt'' (2011) *''

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'' (2017) *'' Persuasion System'' (2019)

SYSTM

Airliner

Filmography

Composer

* ''

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'' (2022)

References

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* * {{Authority control Synthwave musicians American electronic musicians Living people Musicians from Princeton, New Jersey People from Oneida, New York 1985 births