Ryder Harrison Houston is a Philadelphia-based filmmaker and musician born just outside of Dallas, Texas. At age 19, he premiered his debut feature film ‘Rapture in Blue,’ a noir-ish ode to the gothic zeitgeist that permeated the edge of the 20th century. Included on the eponymous soundtrack is the haunting theme ‘Wine (A Sea Of Future) - From "Rapture in Blue"’ performed by frequent collaborator Ariana Kelly, and it was this very release which would catalyze the future of Houston's musical endeavors. As much as his evocative sound dotes on alternative pop acts Depeche Mode, Garbage, and even Madonna at her most controversial, it also seems to suggest something greater operating on the periphery: a dark, omnipresent melodrama not unlike the crooning music of David Lynch composer Angelo Badalamenti or the baroque sensibilities of Lana Del Rey. Nevertheless, Houston’s spidery vocals continue weaving clichés of lust and rock ‘n’ roll menace anew, adhering himself to a certain groovy allusion to sleazy, opium-den electronica (think Portishead meets Massive Attack). Plainly stated, it is within this blasphemous little slipstream that Ryder Houston’s unique brand of sonic nostalgia exists — a sullen musical seduction echoing back from a liminal moment in time where downtempo music and freeze-dried hip-hop beats managed to infiltrate every hot artist’s discography, mutating genre ties and birthing something wholly itself.