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


Com Truise - Trying Times For the Indirect (at Room 205)

“De chico no jugaba tanto a la pelota. Jugaba a poner pausa en una película con mis hermanos… para ver quién hacía la mejor toma. Ese era nuestro juego.”

el arte comenzó a tomar forma gracias a mis padres. Desde pequeño, me enseñaron a mirar, dibujar y fotografiar, sembrando en mí una semilla creativa que con el tiempo se convirtió en mi razón de ser.

Disertante / congreso Nomade 2025 🫰🏻✨🎚️🎥

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