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

Guest mix from way back when, featuring our first international guest, Gi Gi. 

love, 

Mimi & Len

patina with galiba & lenna ft. Gi Gi (USA)

Recorded live at Chillits on Sunday, September 14, 2025 from 4:30am to 6am. Music to dream to.

Track list:

Experimental Audio Research - Delian Lament
Émile Zener - Laguna Cibernetica II-III (excerpt)
Ora - Amalgam
Zoviet France - Soft Helion
Colin Potter - The Knights Are Drawing In
ELpH vs Coil - Dark Start
Lull - Echoed Currents
Core - An Area's Era Aria (excerpt)
Oliveros/Dempster/Panaiotis - Ione (excerpt)
Pinkcourtesyphone - New Domestic Landscape
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Untitled (excerpt)
Richter Band - Sbohem
Nurse With Wound - Funeral Music for Perez Prado (excerpt)
Bass Communion - Piano/Soprano Sax
Jasmine Guffond - Muzak For The Encouragement Of Unproductivity Three (excerpt)
w/ Jeanne Lee - Yeh Come T' Be 
Oval - Feeling
Shriekback - Coelacanth
Ekkehard Ehlers / Franz Hautzinger / Joseph Suchy - Untitled (Soundchambers 1)
Gunter Schlienz - Stillleben
zoviet france - A Long Walk (excerpt)
Carl Stone - Shing Kee (intro)
Pinkcourtesyphone - Reference Point Intermission 1 
Carl Stone - Shing Kee (outro)


Image: The first photograph of the Moon: John W. Draper’s daguerreotype, taken on 26 March 1840 from the rooftop observatory at New York University.

Chillits 2025

Every boomer was a silly teenager once. Souls still brooding, brains still hazy, Jacques Satre and Erevan DJ open the 7th season of the Herbe à Chat show with shoegaze laments, psychedelic rock, breakbeats for daddies and weirdo trip-hop.



Herbe à Chat w/ Erevan DJ & Jacques Satre (02.10.2025)

Seelene's 𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝔃𝓪𝓻𝓭 Big Moon Come Down

pi/live: Radart (Live) @ Tresor Globus 08-14-2025

One hour of ambient techno by french producer Jonnnah 

https://www.instagram.com/jo.nnnah
https://soundcloud.com/jonnnah



Jonnnah @ The Lot Radio 10-09-2025

LOIF goes spelunking into deep/dark/psy-tinged worlds 

https://www.instagram.com/tek_dec
https://www.soundcloud.com/loiflan



Interlinked with LOIF @ The Lot Radio 10-11-2025

@sampurcelll live at @iskra-524969724 Weekender, in Serbia

Sam Purcell live @ Iskra Weekender (15.08.25)

(92m03s)

Kafim, former sound engineer, ex C12 resident, reconverted into freakier regions, host of the basses besognes show and co-organiser of the curly teeth parties.

Kafim @ Kiosk Radio 20.10.2025

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📡 Introspective Dreamscapes and Dystopic Beats
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thesilvatapes@gmail.com
@michael-claus
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US: Email directly 
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SE 21 // Michael Claus - "Gradient Dreams" EP

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