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For nearly a decade the story of Com Truise has relied on science fiction and abstract fact. Seth Haley's singular style of melodic beat music subsists as hazy machinist nostalgia, a mainframe downloaded cosmology. Yet with each , alongside sonic refinement, comes an increasingly visible vapor trail to Haley's own ontology. His long-awaited 2017 LP Iteration brought to completion a conceptual space saga while also reflecting seismic life changes for the producer and designer. With mini-LP Persuasion System, Haley leaves the past narrative behind, settling into a new period marked by change - on this planet, in the present - putting forth his most grounded and visceral work to date. The project began as an experiment. Haley switched digital audio workstations, rebuilt his palette of sounds, and tasked himself with simply trying it out. The exercise freed him of expectations and permitted a process that echoed the tones of more immediate external environments. A gravity had seeped in; resulting material shifts between bleakness and sublime suspense, awe at the expanse of existing, in looking back and letting go. InchIt's a sort of sad smile and a wave goodbye but at the same time hello, a 'welcome to your life' moment,Inch Haley says. Take the storm pattern sequence from InchGaussianInch to InchUltrafiche of YouInch a queasy, contemplative vignette rests on a single soft-synth cloud before the latter's percussion ripples across the sky. With trademark stutters and swells, the composition conjures the sensation of searching in the afterglow. InchIt's a love song, and I don't write many of those.Inch That duality - melancholy + optimism, then + now - permeates this widescreen collection. InchExistence SchematicInch takes flight at night, Inchlooking down at the landscape,Inch explains Haley, Inchseeing the lights in a schematic sort of way, wondering who or what is look
