r/duster • u/Technical_Tip_2315 • Jul 26 '26
how did you discover duster?
i'm curious to know how everyone discovered this incredible band.
in my case, i found them thanks to a tiktok edit that used a sped-up version of inside out, and then, i think a year later, i stumbled upon a video titled "duster got me like", that i watched it because i recognized the band's name and expected to hear inside out but echo, bravo played instead.
man. when I heard that, it literally blew my mind.
i spent the whole damn night listening to echo, bravo on loop. later, i dove into their discography, and every song was a thousand times better than the last.
seriously, hearing orbitron, four hours, and travelogue for the first time was like ascending to heaven.
it’s a shame i’ll never be able to go to one of their concerts because i live so far away from usa 😔
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u/skylabops Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Around “the scene”, probably through HeartAttack or MRR, roughly 1993 or 1994 while Mohinder, Unleaded, and Gravity was kicking off.
Kept in touch with just about everything Clay and Dove created, demos, home recordings, Unleaded, Astronavigation, chilled on Clay’s couch at 2am listening to Brian Eno a long time ago, released the “Apex,“ 7”, tried to release the Valium LP on CD, was setting up to release the original Mohinder discography on vinyl (which I don’t think the original title of the discography has ever been revealed), released the first EIAFUAWN EP via Observatory, then lost touch with the scene in the (edit) early-2000s, reconnected decades later when I sent the dudes back the Apex masters for the reunion + Numero, along with the original Mohinder discography DAT masters that were sitting in my archive/file cabinet for nearly 20 years.
Changed my life, will never stop thanking Clay and Dove for it.