Everyone named in the files, credits and comments. Handles stay as they are.
identified means I can tie the name to a source. Anything weaker says so under the name.
In the connections, → goes out from the entry and ← comes in.
88888u signs the metadata on both MEGA files, the strongest clue that the uploader was Brayden Smith. No account link or statement confirms it.
One of the accounts in the 2018 Diptera thread. Wesley replied to it on 9 and 10 July 2018, and its own comments are missing from the current API, so they survive only in those replies.
Replies addressed to @aplaceforthis.
In November 2024, @cunty asked for the Lost Files files again, because only two of the nine were left in the MEGA folder.
In March 2026, @dyland7567 identified the sung vocal in "Decline" as Christina Aguilera and linked it to "Creepy Crawling".
In March 2026, @GlitchUnpatched identified the opening sample of "Decline" as The Decline of Western Civilization and dated the film to 1981. The scene is from the 1998 third part.
One of the accounts in the 2018 Diptera thread, where Wesley replied to it on 9 July 2018.
Reply addressed to @maia14042018.
In July 2018, @proteinifyouwant and Peter exchanged a short reply in the Diptera thread. Peter answered "hell yeah" on 7 July.
"@proteinifyouwant: hell yeah"
In November 2022, @SignificantOther11 asked who sang the sample at the one-minute mark of "Decline". The answer came in the same thread, years later.
In November 2019, @user-ob9zo9cr4c wrote under the Lost Files upload that @brayden smith had posted it without permission. The comment that carried the folder link is not among the ones that remain.
The YouTube channel that posted Laika in October 2020, with the tracks split out of a private folder. It is the source of the 17-track version.
Wrote "Speaking of Birth-Days", the Fan-belt Milwaukee interview of 16 March 2009, the only interview Peter gave.
Czech-born filmmaker and photographer, later Alexander Hammid. He co-directed Meshes of the Afternoon with Maya Deren in 1943.
Milwaukee musician and engineer. He played in Sat. Nite Duets and later helped build Silver City Studios. In the 2009 interview Peter calls him Andrew and says they played together in Boyscouts.
A Milwaukee producer. Geocash is his band with James. Peter names Geocash in the 2009 interview and hoped they would play together that summer. No session between them is on record.
Geocash is Andy Petr's project.
Ben, from Milwaukee, posted the first public word of Peter's death on Last.fm in June 2024. The same handle on Discogs and MyAnimeList gives Milwaukee, and MyAnimeList gives 1987. His post says Peter had moved from Milwaukee to California.
Ben
Milwaukee
1987, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
He was a good buddy of mine for a few years before he moved from Milwaukee to CA.
Richard D. James. In a Groove interview in December 2014 he named "some kid called Sd Laika" among the artists he listened to most. No collaboration is on record.
Peter's friend, who played bass on the early Birth-Days recordings. The 2009 interview gives only his first name.
Put Laika together in 2020. In a 2021 comment he said the tracks came from a folder shared in the comments of another bootleg. The handle is the only identity on the bootleg.
Icelandic singer, composer and producer. Her 2017 Cover Mix for Mixmag used "Sanpaku Island", the then-unreleased "Latent Fish" and "Dreadful John".
Uploaded Lost Files to YouTube in July 2019, with the tracklist and the MEGA link. The channel has one video and 29 subscribers. The name is still a handle, not a confirmed identity.
American singer. Her 2002 single "Beautiful" supplied the vocal in "Decline", and the same sample is in Creepy Crawling.
Peter's family made one public statement, to Mixmag in 2024, confirming his death and giving only the year.
Milwaukee graphic designer and musician. He wrote the 2026 Milwaukee Record article on That's Harakiri, which traces the cover to The Cage / Ori.
British producer who records as Visionist and founded Lost Codes. He released Unknown Vectors as LC:001 and premiered "Human Mask" on FACT Mix 398.
American avant-garde filmmaker, dancer and writer. She co-directed Meshes of the Afternoon with Alexander Hammid in 1943, the film sampled in "Meshes".
The pseudonymous account behind the NTS In Focus tribute of August 2024. No public profile links it to a name.
American filmmaker, best known for the Decline trilogy. The third part, from 1998, is the film sampled in "Decline".
The old friend Peter names in his 2018 SoundCloud exchange, who called him out over his public attack on Diptera. There is no public profile. The note rests on Peter's words.
Peter Runge (1989 to 2023), a Milwaukee producer who recorded as Sd Laika. He studied at Oberlin College, played in Birth-Days and Trail Magic, and released Unknown Vectors in 2012 and That's Harakiri in 2014. Wikipedia and Find a Grave give 7 October 1989 and 6 June 2023, and the family gave only the year.
some of the most visceral and heart-stopping miniatures we've ever tried and failed to classify
Founded Tri Angle Records in 2010 and ran it until it closed in 2020. The label released That's Harakiri and Idiot Thug.
The other half of Diptera. He introduced Wesley to Peter's music and put the two in contact. No direct exchange between Peter and Roger is in the record.
Japanese poet, playwright, filmmaker and photographer. His 1964 film The Cage, also called Ori, supplied the still on the cover of That's Harakiri.
Played keyboards on the early Birth-Days recordings. The 2009 interview gives only the first name.
Japanese-American composer who scored Maya Deren's films, Meshes of the Afternoon among them. His score is part of what "Meshes" samples.
Cleaned the audio of "Untitled" and matched it to "Decline Sequel", which is where the name "Decline" comes from. The handle appears in the comments under the 2021 upload.
Half of Diptera, with Roger. Roger introduced him to Sd Laika, and the two corresponded for about two years by email and phone. The 2018 SoundCloud exchange is the main public record of it.