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| Birth name | Seth Haley |
| Born | 1985 (age 38–39) [1] |
| Origin | Madison County, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Website | comtruise |
Seth Haley, known by his stage name Com Truise, is an American electronic musician and DJ. [3] His stage name is a spoonerism of the name of American actor Tom Cruise. [4]
Prior to 2010, Com Truise had released music under the pseudonyms Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, and Airliner. [5]
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. [6] Ghostly International digitally reissued it in January 2011. [7] Haley resigned from his job as art director prior to this release. Com Truise remixed Daft Punk's song "ENCOM, Part II" for the Tron: Legacy Reconfigured album soon after. In June 2011, he released his debut album, Galactic Melt . [8] In Decay was the immediate full-length followup in 2012. Com Truise's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing.[ when? ]
Haley is from Oneida, New York, and now resides in Orlando, Florida.[ citation needed ]
In February 2022, Com Truise produced the music for Coinbase's viral Super Bowl LVI advertisement. He sampled the Beatles' cover of "Money (That's What I Want)". [9] In April 2022, he released a course on producing music with online music school Soundfly. [10]
Truise's sound is synthesizer-heavy synthwave, influenced by 1980s musical styles, as first offered on the Cyanide Sisters EP; he calls his style "mid-fi synthwave slow-motion funk". [11]
All of the Com Truise albums, starting with Cyanide Sisters and ending with Iteration, tell the story of a space traveller named Com Truise; [12] [13] Haley described the character as a "synthetic astronaut", [14] and the story as a tale about escaping an oppressed society. [15]
Truise uses a mix of digital and analogue hardware, including emulations of classic synthesisers and romplers. According to a 2015 MusicRadar interview, his DAWs of choice are Reason and Ableton. [16]
Since 2017, he has incorporated the Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 on some tracks, also using it during live performances. [17]
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Persuasion System is a mini-LP by American musician Seth Haley under his stage name Com Truise. It was released on May 17, 2019, by Ghostly International. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.
Silicon Tare is the fourth extended play by American musician Seth Haley under his stage name Com Truise. It was released on April 1, 2016, by Ghostly International. Haley described his releases as Com Truise as parts of a sci-fi story about the world's first "synthetic astronaut", which started on his first studio album, Galactic Melt (2011), and Silicon Tare is where the astronaut makes contact with the Wave 1 colony. The EP was influenced in part by Haley moving to the West Coast.
In Decay, Too is a compilation album by American electronic musician Seth Haley's project Com Truise, released on December 4, 2020, by the independent record label Ghostly International. The record is a collection of tracks that, before its release, were previously unheard by fans, similarly to his previous compilation album, In Decay. The collection was assembled by Polychora, an archivist of Com Truise's material dating back to his Komputer Cast days. Lead track off the album is "False Ascendancy," released on October 14, 2020. It was followed by "Compress—Fuse", released on November 18.
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