Sd Laika, 1989 to 2023
This is an unofficial archive of Peter Runge's music, kept by Lisandra, a fan.
Peter Runge, from Milwaukee, made music as Sd Laika from 2011 to 2023. He studied at Oberlin College in Ohio and played in Birth-Days and Trail Magic before that. He died in June 2023, aged 33.
The 26 tracks catalogued here come from two bootlegs. Lost Files has nine, posted by Brayden Smith in July 2019 from a MEGA folder holding Peter's 2015 uploads. Laika has seventeen, compiled by BIGSHOTJAMES from a folder Peter had shared and posted by aa llaa as a video in October 2020.
I want to know where the original files came from. Five of the 26 tracks can be compared across the two bootlegs. Levels match within 0.1 dB, and the copies are 87 ms and 166 ms apart, except Reckless, where the Laika copy starts 3.74 s into the recording. If you have a better copy, a surviving tag, the 2015 tracklist, or you know where a cover came from, get in touch.
- tracks, with the bootlegs, the 2015 tracklist and the measurements
- catalogue, with works, events, folders, labels and sources
- people, with credits, comments and handles
Open questions
Wikipedia and Find a Grave give Peter's dates as 7 October 1989 and 6 June 2023.
The family statement to Mixmag gives only 2023. No civil record has surfaced.
Evidence needed. A civil record or a family statement with the exact dates.
88888u may be Brayden Smith.
88888u signs the tags on both MEGA files and is known for Good Ass Job. Brayden's channel is disposable. No source links the accounts.
Evidence needed. A link between the accounts or confirmation from either person.
Dirt, from 2015, is plausibly the same track as Dirt Boss on Laika.
The title appears in a 2015 Last.fm list. Dirt Boss only appears on the 2020 bootleg. The match rests on the title alone.
Evidence needed. Audio, tags or duration that allow the two to be aligned.
Nobody has been credited for the cover of Unknown Vectors.
Neither the record nor the press names anyone. XLR8R published the artwork without an explanation.
Evidence needed. A credit, an interview or the original file.
Nobody has been credited for the cover of Lost Files.
It accompanies Brayden Smith's upload. The original file has not turned up.
Evidence needed. A credit or the original file.
The sung vocal in "Decline" is Christina Aguilera's, from "Beautiful" (2002).
@dyland7567 identified it in March 2026, by ear and against the Creepy Crawling VIP. Neither release carries a sample credit.
Evidence needed. An isolated vocal, or confirmation from the label or the estate.
Wesley's note has been read as a hospital stay of six years.
Wesley writes "in the hospital for some of that period" and gives no duration. The number six appears in no source.
Evidence needed. A primary source that gives the dates.