About Comaduster

Comaduster is a solo eclectic electronic music project by Real Cardinal, from Edmonton Alberta Canada. Real works on this project in balance (and sometimes not) with his full time career as a Sound Designer at BioWare Edmonton, making some of the most highly regarded video games in the industry. There are a wide range of influences in the Comaduster palette, some include: IDM, Drum and Bass, Industrial, Ambient and Post-Rock. The project started in 1998 and originally went under the title 'FXseries'. During this time a local album entitled "Ghostmachine" was released. In 2004 there was a brief name change to 'Daedal' and a 5 track demo was released online. The demo had a generally positive response. During this time remixes were done for Icon of Coil and Dismantled, as well as mixing work on the Dismantled album "Standard Issue", released on Metropolis and Dependent records. In 2008 the name was changed to 'Comaduster' and the project took on a more focused objective. In late 2009 the album "Slip through" was released online for free (or donation). This album was a culmination of work from 2002-2006, with the title track being composed in 2008. It was pared down from 19 tracks to 7 over the course of finalizing it in 2009. It was originally intended to be a release of unfinished material that would not have seen the light of day otherwise. Over the course of mixing and reworking the material a more focused sound started to emerge from a few of the tracks in the large list. The album was released in late September 2009 and has been highly regarded. In January of 2010 the unreleased track "Hide to Seek" was released in the Xbox 360 game "Mass Effect 2" . You can hear this track in the Eternity club in the game. On September 24th 2010 the track "Foam Abattoir" will be released on Dependent Record's "Septic IX" compilation. In late 2010 a remix EP follow for Slip Through will be released. This has yet to be given a title. And on September 25th 2010 Comaduster will be performing his first full on Audio Visual piece (untitled). This piece will be released in 2011 in some form or another.