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 before that he made the Birth-Days album at home and the Trail Magic tracks on the Live Dad blog. He died in 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.
Both bootlegs copy the same masters. Five tracks appear on both, levels agree within 0.1 dB, and the copies differ only in what was cut from the ends, 87 ms on Dreadful John, 166 ms on Sanpaku Island and 3.74 s off the front of Laika's Reckless. What remains open is what those master files were called, where they were hosted and what their tags said. A better copy, a surviving tag or the 2015 tracklist would answer what the measurements cannot.
- 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
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.