Name: 05 Blue Away by Johnny La Rock
Duration: 3 min 32 s
Description: Released 7/31/18 on La Rock Inc. Records.

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Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/com-truise-galactic-melt

When talking about the music of Com Truise (one of the many pseudonyms of New Jersey designer/musician Seth Haley), the nostalgia bit inevitably comes up, so let’s get that out of the way. Yes, his songs tap classic sci-fi and proto-electro in a way that is distinctly early eighties in scope. But they’re also remarkably weird—stutter-step proggy and intoxicatingly psychedelic, like those classic touchstones got drunk on lava lamp juice inside a pinball machine. After his well-received Cyanide Sisters EP, a grip of remixes for artists like Twin Shadow, Neon Indian, and, uh, Daft Punk, and a few floating MP3s, Truise’s first LP, Galactic Melt, will finally enter brainspaces this summer.

And what an appropriate title it bears. For a brief moment, opener “Terminal” subsumes you in warm, starry-eyed synth arpeggios, and then down the rabbit hole you go—from the keyed up, skyscraping machine love of “VHS Sex” and “Cathode Girls” to opuses like “Air Cal” and “Ether Drift” that sound like Doogie Howser’s idea of the perfect prom song—mathy, forlorn, funky, and mighty in technical ambition. That they’re all noticeably cinematic is, of course, by design—Haley envisioned Galactic Melt as a “sort of film score…from the mind,” chronicling the lift and death of Com Truise, the world’s first synthetic/robotic astronaut, from his creation and life on earth to his subsequent mission to a newly discovered galaxy called “Wave 1.” Eventually, Truise becomes one with his newfound cosmos, like Pinocchio becoming a real boy, but in the nether regions of imaginary space.

Haley says knowing when and how to complete such an opus was the hardest part of making the record, nevermind all the carefully synth programmed patches on his Sequential Circuits Split-8 or the three years of real life that transpired during its genesis. It’s a world unto itself, a sci-fi bildungsroman of sorts, and most importantly, an awesome escape from the corporeal.



Galactic Melt

Com Truise - Com Truise - Brokendate

The Last Working Dinosaur is the first single by Cody Jones (formerly Stillborn Identity) from his upcoming project, “Out With The Old, In With The New. Follow Your Heart, And You’ll End Up Alone.” Cody had been listening to a lot of Serengeti at the time and was drawn to the idea of his writing not being confined by events and thoughts that were literally true. The theme of the track is inspired by his working relationship with his dad who he saw doing everything a very “old school” way at Northgate Auto Body, the garage he owned and worked in for the last 30 years. Cody saw his dads work habits prehistoric in comparison to most other shops, and so The Last Working Dinosaur was born. On a car ride home from work one day while freestyling over a beat CD the song pretty much wrote itself inspired and exaggerated by true events. Originally the song was recorded over a song that was released in 2013, but eventually Joey Smooth, who also recorded the track, remixed it with some funky synths and heavy duty bass lines. The Last Working Dinosaur is available as a digital single on Cody’s YouTube and Bandcamp.

The Last Working Dinosaur (Dig

The Last Working Dinosaur prod. Joey Smooth

Blockchain Billionaire

Released 7/31/18 on La Rock Inc. Records.

05 Blue Away

Here's a silly song called "Yung Joe Dirt" I made in these uncertain times. I'm purposely releasing it today instead of yesterday when bandcamp was giving 100% of the sale t the artist because I've been fortunate enough to work through most of the pandemic. So please don't feel the need to pay for this song just to finically support me (only buy it if you're a nerd like me who needs to have it on your mobile bandcamp app collections). It's only available on bandcamp and SoundCloud because it's not an original beat.

produced by Steve Bills originally for Chrome Bills.
mixed and mastered by Ialive
single art by Billy Hoyle

Yung Joe Dirt (prod. Steve Bills)

The Bodyguard Soundtrack (Bonus)

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Johnny La Rock is the alias of Cleveland, OH electronic musician Eddie Fleisher. His songs often defy genre boundaries and each new record is a reinvention of sorts. As a lover of old drum machines, synths and samplers, coupled with a knack for modern music technology, he blends '80s & '90s retro sounds into fresh contemporary compositions. Inspired by a diverse range of styles, his music is sometimes hard to neatly define. And that's totally fine with him.

05 Blue Away

Johnny La Rock

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