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Post by jk on Mar 21, 2021 14:51:03 GMT -5
I remember being confronted years ago by a 2012 album called In Decay by Com Truise (Seth Haley). Revisiting that and a number of others by CT, I was slightly underwhelmed -- until I discovered his remixes. This is clearly where his real talents lie. I thought it might be fun to spin a few, each preceded by the original (it makes more sense that way round). First off is "Helena Beat", the opening track on Foster the People's 2011 album Torches, which was remixed by CT later that year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_the_Peopleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com_Truise |
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Post by jk on Mar 22, 2021 5:51:31 GMT -5
Ana Lola Roman first released "Klutch" as the title track of an EP in April 2011. Mr Truise remixed it that same month! Here the remix is accompanied by cool visuals -- "the Bay Area with beats", in the words of one commenter: ra.co/dj/analolaroman/biography |
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Post by jk on Mar 23, 2021 17:13:20 GMT -5
I have a new strategy. Rather than posting videos of both versions (*yawn*), I shall post Com's remix along with information about the original. This is "Kemosabe", originally a 2013 single by the Mancunian band Everything Everything:
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Post by jk on Mar 26, 2021 18:15:38 GMT -5
These remixes are getting me to learn about artists I'd never heard of. Or they were just a name to me, as in the case of Sky Ferreira, whose 2012 EP track "Red Lips" gets the Com Truise treatment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lips_(song) |
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Post by jk on Mar 29, 2021 2:39:53 GMT -5
Today's CT remix is of Charli XCX's 2013 single "What I Like". I'd known about Charli from her work with Sophie (R.I.P. -- I had no idea). Reading her wiki page, I see Charli "suffers" from synaesthesia, an "affliction" that has always fascinated me: "I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red -- but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Romance_(Charli_XCX_album) |
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Post by jk on Apr 1, 2021 15:38:37 GMT -5
My present lack of energy (nothing serious, folks) means I'm out of Long-Complicated-Post Mode right now. That's when a Com Truise remix comes in very handy. This one of Deadmau5's "Strobe" (2009) dates from 23 September 2016: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmau5 |
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Post by jk on Apr 15, 2021 16:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Apr 22, 2021 15:53:21 GMT -5
I remember being confronted years ago by a 2012 album called In Decay by Com Truise (Seth Haley). Revisiting that and a number of others by CT, I was slightly underwhelmed -- until I discovered his remixes. This is clearly where his real talents lie. I decided to revisit that album. YouTube kept confronting me with it at every turn and after a while I gave in. I must admit to liking what I was hearing. Maybe I got the order right this time -- mixes first, solo work second. This is the opening track: I just love YT commenter Austin Kuipers' remark of three years ago: "What if Com Truise becomes legendary and makes music for decades, while Tom Cruise is slowly forgotten, then in the 22nd century a spoof artist names themselves 'Tom Cruise' in reverence to the last century's musical great." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Decay |
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Post by jk on May 4, 2022 3:53:17 GMT -5
I'd never intended to disinter this thread until I happened upon "Datawave FM – glitchy synthwave radio for retro computing" and noticed it namechecks CT. Its uploader, Nightride FM, explains:
"Com Truise calls it 'Mid-Fi Synthwave Slow-Motion Funk', we simply call it 'Datawave'. This radio is dedicated to the kind of sound he pioneered, with stylistic elements of 80s synth funk, synthwave and pitch-drifting nostalgia. Invoking imagery of a retro-futurist information age."
This recent find is the perfect complement to the smoother ride of my equally synth-heavy Sovietwave 24/7 channel.
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Post by jk on May 7, 2022 16:33:05 GMT -5
And now I've got back to visiting his remixes. "Com Truise is, like, the public face of SynthWave. The SynthWave artist it's cool for your Indie friends to like. So flying the flag for all things retro Electro, we always pay special attention to his tracks, and they are always mind-blowingly good. His mix of 'One Day At a Time' [the second single from Arsenal's 2011 album Lokemo] is no different. In fact it's the highlight of the reMixes, with a funkin' analog bassline and sweeping synths Com Truise turns the Housey vocal [by Mike Ladd] into something a bit more New Wave. Electro toms are just the icing on the cake in this track which boarders on electronic Soul at times." [ Source] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_(Belgian_band) |
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Post by jk on May 9, 2022 6:00:53 GMT -5
First off, just to put a face and a voice to the name, here's an interview with CT and fellow traveller Clark. (Com is the big cuddly man on our right.) This is Holly McGibbon, half of the Brooklyn duo Weeknight, in an interview dated August 2013 (see link below): "We (Holly and Andy Simmons] will be releasing a single soon and a full-length in early 2014. Our first single is going to have a remix by Com Truise, who is our roommate and friend. He writes good music and he's into our music and is excited about remixing us – he's going to make a remix of whatever song ends up being our first single." That single, "Dark Light", was remixed by CT in February 2014: bedfordandbowery.com/2013/08/dark-pop-duo-weeknight-will-take-you-into-the-weekend/ |
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Post by jk on May 10, 2022 4:32:50 GMT -5
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Post by jk on May 10, 2022 5:04:47 GMT -5
See the previous post: "'The Lord is a shoving leopard.' So said Reverend William Archibald Spooner in a famous, dyslexic slip-of-the-tongue that would from that point onward become known as a 'spoonerism'. Spoonerisms are something like semantic remixes: a play on words in which certain parts or sounds of a phrase are switched and rearranged to create something new. "Enter COM TRUISE: the New York-cum-Jersey boy with a spooneristic stage name and a knack for remixes of a more musical nature. In the past, COM-my's remixed the likes of Aussie electro alumni FLIGHT FACILITIES and CLIENT LIAISON, adding a splash of his bright, 80s synth varnish to already formidable pieces of pop bliss. "More recently, he's taken his magic to the climes of California to play with slightly lesser-known LA boys TAPIOCA AND THE FLEA, and their track 'Take It Slow'. "TAPIOCA AND THE FLEA have something of an affinity for remixes themselves. A couple of years ago these boys reworked and covered a bunch of musical gems—from LANA DEL REY's 'Video Games' to LITTLE DRAGON's 'Feather'; from THE BEATLES to JAMES BLAKE to UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA. And yet, as far as their original beats go, TAPIOCA AND THE FLEA are more 'band' than 'producers'; a little more 'pop'/'rock' than 'electronica'. "COM TRUISE ups the electro vibes. In a style that's becoming something of a trademark for him, he batters the original with super crisp, percussion-happy sonics—resulting in a sunny, beat-heavy piece of indie-electro. "If 80s dubstep isn't yet its own subgenre, then this might just be the start of something—and TRUISE might just be the undisputed lord of that punchy, glitzy sound. Come into the arms of the shoving leopard." [ Source] |
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Post by jk on May 11, 2022 4:03:49 GMT -5
"Singularity" began life as the second track on the self-titled 2014 album by Hollow & Akimbo, the Michigan-based indie pop project of Jonathan Visger and Brian Konicek. CT's remix was made available as an MP3 in January of that year:
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Post by jk on May 12, 2022 3:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by jk on May 13, 2022 2:09:45 GMT -5
FOE's "A Handsome Stranger Called Death" is listed at Com's wiki page as his first remix back in August 2010, yet it was released as one of three tracks on the original single in 2012. H'mmm... "Foe (2009-2013) was a musical project by the British indie artist Hannah Lou Clark, a.k.a. Hannah Shark. Hannah previously did vocals in the alternative pop band Arthur (2005-2009) and is known to collaborate with Entrepreneurs." [ Source] |
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Post by jk on May 14, 2022 3:48:08 GMT -5
"IAMANTHEM" began life as track #7 on the self-released album ISA (2015) by Kodak to Graph aka Florida's Michael Maleki, whose work has been described as "glitch-hop". The Com Truise remix was released in June of that year:
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Post by jk on May 18, 2022 3:30:46 GMT -5
"Free Of Fear" is the title of a five-track EP released by Aussie "faux-fi" duo Client Liaison in 2014. Of the three mixes it adds to the traditional A and B sides, Com's is the first in line. According to the list on Wikipedia (which may not be faultless) he mixed it in January of that year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_Liaison |
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2022 6:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Oct 26, 2022 12:52:36 GMT -5
I wasn't planning to reactivate this thread (again) until this "GOK" business reared its head. This is the other side of the coin, before remixers all get tarred with the same brush and treated as cultural miscreants. And what better place to start (or rather continue) than with Com Truise's remix of ZZ Ward ft. Freddie Gibbs' "Criminal": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ_Ward |
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Post by jk on Nov 20, 2022 7:06:34 GMT -5
I'd never intended to disinter this thread until I happened upon "Datawave FM – glitchy synthwave radio for retro computing" and noticed it namechecks CT. Its uploader, Nightride FM, explains: "Com Truise calls it 'Mid-Fi Synthwave Slow-Motion Funk', we simply call it 'Datawave'. This radio is dedicated to the kind of sound he pioneered, with stylistic elements of 80s synth funk, synthwave and pitch-drifting nostalgia. Invoking imagery of a retro-futurist information age." This really is my go-to YT radio these days. And yesterday I heard a wondrous track called "Creeping Love Barrage" by MoTER from their 2017 Bandcamp release Wave Transmission. It has a multitude of felicitous touches, not least the ecstatic moment just after 3:10 with its suggestion of dubstep, a fabulous genre in the right hands (think Seven Lions): |
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Post by jk on Dec 2, 2022 6:36:43 GMT -5
Heard this yesterday on my CT-dedicated Datawave radio station. It's the only track so far where singing can be heard -- everything else is instrumental, with perhaps the occasional, often distorted spoken text. "V.T.W.A." comes from the March 2018 Bandcamp album Unknown Frequency by retrowave merchant Lucy In Disguise. Laura Claire wrote and performed the vocals on just this track: innerworksrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-frequency |
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Post by jk on Jun 12, 2023 8:50:47 GMT -5
While listening to the Datawave radio, this dreamy track caught my ear. Turns out it was by CT -- I had no idea he'd got into ambient stuff. One YouTuber rather evocatively describes it as beachcombing on Mars: ghostly.com/products/in-decay-too |
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Post by jk on Aug 3, 2023 3:34:21 GMT -5
This bass-heavy CT track, "Generation Loss", caught my ear on the Datawave station:
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