Five reasons to catch Com Truise in Singapore

1. You’ve never heard the ’80s like this. Otherwise known as Seth Haley, Com Truise culls retro-futurist nostalgia from the decade – think video games, movie themes and infotainment programmes – and churns it into an intergalactic funk halfway between the electro-soul of Toro Y Moi and the digital wizardry of Oneohtrix Point Never. If electronica had a Big Bang moment, the primordial ooze would probably sound like this.  

2. And even if you detest anything and everything to do with that era, know that Com Truise shied away from it, too. That is, until his friends pushed him in the direction of synth pop. The producer’s resulting two albums – Galactic Melt and In Decay – and several EPs are clever enough to come clean about their nerdy references, yet potent enough to get feet shuffling on the dancefloor. 

Haley says forging his sound came about after a period of fine-tuning and moving away from his drum ’n’ bass background. Plus, he ditched his background in design for this, so look out for spectacular visuals at the gig.