Live Review: Tapioca & The Flea 'Take It Slow' (Com Truise Remix)
If 80s dubstep isn't yet its own subgenre, then this might just be the start of something—and Com Truise might just be the undisputed lord of that sound.
"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'.
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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.
Words by Gavin Butler
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