Nice mix, man, Love the vibe. Nice to hear someone making beautiful ambient music in the bay area.

Some cool tunes from friends using modular rigs

Modulations

live set from electric picnic on 5/21/22 in schenley park in pittsburgh

live at electric picnic in pgh

Buchla 200e and lots of looping.  Loops recorded in one take.  Second take is all loops going and playing around with the various fx sends. 

Buchla Lupchla

AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM FT > 
https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/dolo-6

DOLO PERCUSSION is back! DOLO 6 is the first Dolo Percussion drop since 2020, 6 more drum tools for the freaky, gnarly, and psychedelic DJ in U. Fastfreeks and Chuggheads can each get some, with everything from DOLO 27’s frenzied tek to DOLO 29’s SP crank. Direct from Future Times digital for immediate party use. Do Your Beat!
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releases April 12, 2024

Produced and mixed by Andrew Field-Pickering at Future Times.
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete
DOLO 26, 27, 30 Mixed with Mezey, DOLO 25 Mixed with Niko Rao
Cover illustration by Andrew Field-Pickering

DOLO PERCUSSION - DOLO 26 (FTDIGI019)

Bossa Happy Hour 05/18/24

brainwave research center live at electric picnic pgh 2023

Recorded live at Paral·lel Festival 2024, Saturday 530-830PM, Port del Comte, Spain.

Thank you to the Paral·lel team for the trust, to everyone whose music I was able to share, to all of you for being there and for listening.

@parallelfestival

Aaron J at Paral·lel Festival 2024

In To The Wilderness

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.01.31.html

@jt-2000...
Tin Man - Falling Acid
Life Recorder - From Above
Black Dog Productions - Merck
Grad U - Polar NIght
Manooz - Boxin' With GOD
Glytek Audio - Koi
Far Out Radio Systems - My Pacifist
Robert Drewek/Tomie Nevada - More CPU Please
Carl Craig - Televised Green Smoke
The Mechanical Man - Liberty Means Responsibility
Kamyar Ring - K.Feelings 5
Samo DJ - Sonya's Theme
lan Pooley - 303 (2 Bars)
Ian Pooley - Electric Mistress (303 version)
Human Space Machine.- 30803
Aphex Twin - MADMA with Nastya

@m50...
Sullivan Johns : Accordance Tone : Pitched Variations : Moving Furniture
Searows : Martingale : Flush : Last Recordings On Earth
Zero Key : 01 : [untitled] : False Aralia
FSOL : Across Lands : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Intel Comm : Drive15 : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
FSOL : Deserted Roads : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
The Bubble Heads : Frozen In The Air : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Blackhill Transmitter : Karmin Line : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Suburban Domestic : Stillness : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
FSOL : Multiplying Mutations : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Humanoid : Co-Pilot : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Smart Systems : The Tingler (30Hz Remix) : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
FSOL : Recollection : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
FSOL : Nagware : A Controlled Vista 2.7 - Mini Pack 1 : fsoldigital.com
Negative Supply : June NY : Les Glaneurs : kshack
s8jfou : It Do Go Down : Dognip : Parapente
Nebulo : Lates Al Dente Jam
Shielding : NY16
Selfsame : 04 : [untitled] : False Aralia
Steve Roach : All I Feel : Day One of Forever : Projekt
e-garbage : Vista32.reg : System32 : Pulse
e-garbage : backfromschool.jpg : System32 : Pulse
SNKLS : ESSENCE VII : ESSENCE : Polaar
Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke : Scale C : Split Scale : Thrill Jockey
Buried Marie : 1 : Darkwing : Neotantra
SNKLS : ESSENCE V : ESSENCE : Polaar
Gagi Petrovic : Final Anthem (Berlin) : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
The Jaffa Kid : Meta : Strae : The Jaffa Kid
being : Crakkshh : Just Visiting : This Machine Is Broken
Gabor Lazar : Execute : Reflex : Raster-artistic Platform
Aphex Twin : body pads (London 19.07.2023) : Music From The Merch Desk 2016-2023 : WARP
The Jaffa Kid : Vangu : Strae : The Jaffa Kid
Christopher Willits : Origin : Gravity : Plancha
Cahl Sel : February : Moment : Reflective
Gagi Petrovic : Toen ht uiteenviel : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
Microstoria : Pokus : Init Ding & _Snd : Thrill Jockey
Gagi Petrovic : ysterie : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
Shielding : Seasoning : [tba] : Kimochi Sound
being : Poly : Just Visiting : This Machine Is Broken
Michael Claus : TerraX
Gagi Petrovic : Gedachtengolven : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
Zero Key : 03 : False : False Aralia
MPU101 : sequoia10 : MPU105 : Ilian Tape
Gagi Petrovic : Y1.2 : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
kaitlin simotics : Truck Attitude : Kaitlin Music : Relaxin
MF Doom : Hoe Cakes : MM..Food : Rhymesayers
Steve Roach : Slow Emotion : One Day Of Forever : Projekt
Philip Jeck : Clocking Off : rpm : Touch
Gagi Petrovic : Petrol Hope : Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024 : Moving Furniture
Philip Jeck : Pleione : rpm : Touch
Nebulo : Exit Jam : Fugitive Jams
Microstoria : Feld 1 : Init Ding & _Snd : Thrill Jockey
Buried Marie : Darkwing 10 : Darkwing : Neotantra
Christopher Willits : Curve : Gravity : Plancha
being : Poly : Troit : This Machine Is Broken

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Wax n' Cats

Jim Thompson + m50 @ etc 2025.01.31

house of baba

IG: www.instagram.com/mikec187/
SC: @michael-claus

SE Founder Michael Claus @michel-claus is back at it again for Episode 3, coming through with a slow-burning journey of downtempo grooves, tripped-out rhythms, and dubby atmospheres.

Full interview and tracklist -> https://blog.silvaelectronics.net/post/779628891026472960/se-podcast-3-michael-claus

Tracklist:
Artist - Track name

Forest Management - Hydro
Porter Ricks - Phosphoric
Techno Animal - Hydrozoid
In Aeternam Vale - 808TS
Conforce - Elude
Austin Cesear - Cloud Hall
Huerco S. - Rushing To Paradise
Bookworms & Steve Summers - Let it Run
Jack Hyde - Sea-Stone
Shinichi Atobe - Plug and Delay
Demdike Stare - Eulogy
Millsart - The Deuce Theory
DJ Spider - Planetary DisFunkshun
Elexos Park - Guava
Bruce Trail - Beatrice
2301 - Shell
Monolake - Fragile
Plastikman - I Don't Know
Marcelus - Utopia

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**Tell us about the mix you've recorded for us.**

I put this mix together on a very snowy Saturday night in February, where everything outside was blanketed in white and it just kept coming down for hours. The view from my window was beautiful, and that cozy, surreal stillness definitely inspired the direction of the mix. Since I was posted up at home, I decided to go for a slower, more laid-back set that featured some of my favorite styles and sound palettes. We’re cooking low and slow here—downtempo sluggers, lush atmospheres, and staggered rhythms that drift behind and around the beat. It moves through different zones, starting mellow and hazy, building toward tripped-out house, minimal and dubby textures.

**Can you walk us through your creative process when approaching this mix?**

I wanted the mix to feel like it matched the color and mood of that snowy night—shades of purple, blue, and white. The idea was to explore the more psychedelic, melodic, and slightly off-kilter sides of downtempo and experimental club sounds. I started by gathering some of my favorite tracks in this realm and loosely organizing them by tempo. Then I hit record and just jammed, gradually increasing the tempo as the mix progressed. There are a few rough edges in there, but I chose not to re-record it. You can hear “me” in there. Definitely not AI ;)

SE Podcast 3: Michael Claus

https://soundcloud.com/michael-claus
https://michaelclaus.bandcamp.com/album/gradient-dreams-ep

Drawn from live performances in San Francisco and Sacramento between 2022 and 2023, Michael Claus’ latest 4-track EP distills the energy, experimentation and atmosphere of those sets into a focused studio release. Loops, textures, and rhythmic sketches originally crafted for the dance floor and shaped in real time by crowd energy, space, and intuition have been reshaped into four fully realized tracks—each one carrying traces of the environments and moments that first gave them life.

From the high-velocity percussion and drive of “Gradient Dreams” to the low slung and staggered swing of “Plastic Soul,” Claus weaves together a palette of saturated percussion, hazy atmospheres and pixelated melodies. “AI Instinct” locks into a hypnotic and machine-link churn of syncopated 909s and a minimalist 303, while “Invisible Beach” closes things out with a groovy melody that feels half dream, half machine. There’s a distinctly cybernetic mood running throughout—neon-tinted and lo-fi, like glimpses of a decaying city’s sprawl refracted through smoke and chrome.

Influenced by the retro-futurist visions of authors like William Gibson, Claus taps into a sound both worn and futuristic, pulsing with motion yet heavy with atmosphere. The result is a collection that feels lived-in and cinematic. Whether heard in a club or in solitude, the EP offers a snapshot of Claus’ creative loop between performance and production, memory and reinvention.
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releases June 13, 2025

UPDATE on our upcoming release pre-order, “Gradient Dreams” EP.

We have decided to donate all proceeds of this release to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, whose mission it is to supply medical aid, treatment, food, water, and necessities to families affected by the ongoing crisis. They also focus on rebuilding healthcare facilities, and funding trauma counseling and mental health services to foster healing in the community.

From the BBC ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz63jnx52l0o ):

“The IPC assessment, released on Monday, found half a million people - or one in five - were facing starvation in Gaza. It said nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months to April 2026.”

From PBS ( https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/as-israels-blockade-pushes-gaza-towards-famine-aid-workers-say-they-feel-helpless ):

“After months of trying to raise alarm, humanitarian workers are overflowing with anger, frustration and horror over Israel’s nearly three-month blockade of Gaza. The Associated Press spoke to over a dozen aid workers, some with years of experience in emergencies around the world and Palestinians who have worked through this and other wars.

They say what is happening in Gaza is a catastrophe, among the worst they have ever seen. It’s more painful, they say, because it’s man-made, caused by Israel cutting off all food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to the territory nearly 11 weeks ago.

The world’s top authority on food crises last week warned of famine unless the blockade ends. Almost the entire population of around 2.3 million is acutely malnourished, and one in five Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, it said.” (from PBS)

Please consider making your own contribute to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.  You can make a donation and learn more about their work on their website: 

https://www.pcrf.net/
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Composition, production, mixing: Michael Claus
Mastering: Russell E. L. Butler

SE 21 // Michael Claus  - "Gradient Dreams" EP

new york city put your hands up 

https://www.instagram.com/myflower______
https://www.soundcloud.com/myflower1



My Flower @ The Lot Radio 08-26-2025

Overcast

This is the first installment in a series of mixes that features only music I made.  This mix consists of a few of ambient tracks that were created over the course of 2016.  Headphones or hifi speakers recommended.  Something to listen to when you're riding transit or when you're falling asleep.

Select Works Vol. I (Ambient mix) (100% Unsigned//Unreleased)

Some Phun with the Eardrill Morphun Module Module and a 258v 

PR and Morphun

Experiments with Buchla 200e. Midi, Reverb and Ping Pong Delay from Ableton Live. 

Plasmoid 1

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Label: @silvaelectronics - silvaelectronics.bandcamp.com
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Releases on: @100percentsilk // @lefthandpathwax // @JacktoneRecords // @SilvaElectronics + more
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Contact: michael@silvaelectronics.net
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Synthesist and producer based in San Francisco. Releases with Deep Electronics, Ambientologist, Constellation Tatsu, ATTN, and Brushed Evergreen Labs. 

Deep techno project: __twam

Select Works Vol. I (Ambient mix) (100% Unsigned//Unreleased)

Michael C

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