Producer/musician Rusty Santos, known for his work with Animal Collective/Panda Bear, has announced the release of a new single via London independent label Lo Recordings on the 9th of May 2022.

Dream In Stereo, self-recorded & produced, mastered by Mike Bozzi, will be available digitally via all the usual major outlets and is the first track to be lifted from his forthcoming new album High Reality which is due at the end of June. It’s his first new material in 15+ years.

Santos explains the jarring series of events that led to the creation of this album:

These songs were created from a place of necessity after I had been hospitalized and involuntarily held in a facility due to a psychotic break, which was brought on by tactics I faced by others in the music industry. It took the efforts of some artist friends and label contacts I work with to intervene and get me released. The people in charge at the facility didn’t believe I was a record producer. The album title, High Reality, is the name I’ve given to the state of consciousness I was in while detached from day-to-day reality during my crisis. – RS

Rusty Santos is a producer and musician. He spent formative time in NYC immersed in the electronic psychedelia scene along with friends and contemporaries Black Dice, Animal Collective and Gang Gang Dance, and many other artists in their orbit. He released a pair of solo albums on the UUAR imprint and then went on to create the group The Present. He first came to prominence with Animal Collective when he produced their celebrated Sung Tongs album in 2004 and then collaborated again with Panda Bear on his landmark album Person Pitch and the more recent album Buoys. Prior to living in New York, Rusty sang and played guitar in West Coast art-punk bands from his hometown of Fresno, California and later became enamored with the possibilities of electronic music once attending his first rave. Santos now lives in LA where he is active as a producer — including Black Dice’s album Mod Prog Sic, Jackie Mendoza’s EP Luv HZ, songs for the Chilean rapper-artist LIZZ, Model Child’s EP Unscrewed, Ginla’s album Everything, while again writing and producing solo music under his own name.