Silva Electronics

11/21/2025

⚔️ Episode 6 comes from Silva Electronics founder and Brooklyn-based Producer / DJ Michael Claus. For this one he digs deep into the “lower middle-bottom left section” of his record collection for an all vinyl mix, stitching together psychedelic jazz, krautrock, post-punk, leftfield, New Wave, industrial, EBM, crust punk, and metal.

IG: instagram.com/mikec187/
SC: soundcloud.com/michael-claus

📲 Full track list and interview via the link in bio ( blog.silvaelectronics.net )

https://blog.silvaelectronics.net/post/792908032569999360/se-podcast-6-michael-claus

“I recorded this mix on a summer night, New York humidity in full effect, all the windows and the balcony door wide open to let in whatever little breeze was available. I was enjoying a night in, so I dug through the lower middle-bottom left section of my record collection, hooked up my second turntable to an old DJ “battle” mixer (Tascam XS-4) I had stashed in the closet, plugged it into my laptop, and hit record."

- Miles Davis - In A Silent Way / It’s About That Time [In A Silent Way, Side B]
- CAN - Paperhouse / Mushroom [Tago Mago, A1, A2]
- Bronze - Dulcinea [World Arena, A3] [2014, Not Not Fun Records]

09/29/2025

➡️ Exceprt from SE Podcast Episode 5 with San Francisco-based producer, DJ, and promoter Pressing ( ), whose work explores off-kilter rhythms and left-field sound design.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/_press_ing
SC: https://soundcloud.com/ppressingg

“This mix is the recording of a set I played on April 4th 2025. It was for a party my crew Hyper K threw with some friends, Club Moniker and Endzeit. Spekki Webbu, Feral, Miagma, Mozhgan, Kudeki, and Altinbas also played. I played upstairs in a fast/trippy room.

I played early and the next artists really shine and do their thing at a pretty fast pace but I didn’t want to creep up the tempo consistently over an hour. I pulled my zoniest 80/160 and tried to find a smooth ramp up. My hope was that after an hour of this, the bodies in the room could hear/feel something near where Spekki and Feral would be playing for a less jarring transition. There’s so much good music in this zone: from half time dnb to atmospheric, leftfield psychedelia and even a lil hip hop. That gives way to some heavy bass which, at this tempo, really makes me….not want to headbang buuuuut….maybe nod my head really hard?? I also love just straight up percussion so there’s a bit of that in there too.”

📲 Full track list and interview via the link in bio ( blog.silvaelectronics.net )

https://blog.silvaelectronics.net/post/792908032569999360/se-podcast-5-pressing

Tracklist (Artist - Track):
Popp - Meoh
Marmo - Inner Systems .live
L’Uzure - Mémoire .a.k.i.r.a._
Marmo - Hermaphrodite
Altjira - Foil
Konduku - Swerve
Sindh - Massane
Marco Shuttle - Tombak Healer
Minú Jr - TSS
Pianeti Sintetici & Simon Oak - Sigillo .oak
Minú Jr - October
dj_2button - Aurora Arrivals (MISH Remix)
Fergus Jones - Tight Knit (feat Birthmark, ELDON, & Withdrawn)
Minú Jr - Cure
Drawbridge - Boiling Swamp
Isabel - Descent 909
Hellacopta - Stress Test
Hysteria Temple Foundation - Iddak
Sage - Boy
Oceanic - KxT .ocean
Mohammed Reza Mortazavi - White Daf

06/06/2025

05/30/2025

An excerpt from our latest mix and interview with Bay Area-based DJ and selector Researcher .mp3, whose ties to scenes in Brooklyn, Detroit, and SF shape a wide-ranging, intentional approach to sound and curation. Researcher brings a sharp ear for mood, movement, and atmosphere. This mix is a driving, heady trip that fuses peak-time techno pressure with electro-inspired rhythms and dub textures that surface throughout.

IG: www.instagram.com/researcher.mp3/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/researcher-mp3/

📲 Full track list and interview via the link in bio ( http://blog.silvaelectronics.net/ )

https://blog.silvaelectronics.net/post/784704908970655744/se-podcast-4-researcher

05/27/2025

🌐 The next installment of the SE Podcast is here!

Episode 4 comes from Bay Area-based DJ and selector Researcher .mp3, whose ties to scenes in Brooklyn, Detroit, and SF shape a wide-ranging, intentional approach to sound and curation. Researcher brings a sharp ear for mood, movement, and atmosphere. This mix is a driving, heady trip that fuses peak-time techno pressure with electro-inspired rhythms and dub textures that surface throughout.

IG: www.instagram.com/researcher.mp3/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/researcher-mp3/

📲 Full track list and interview via the link in bio ( blog.silvaelectronics.net )

https://blog.silvaelectronics.net/post/784704908970655744/se-podcast-4-researcher

Track title - Artist
vril. - the secret teaching of all times
malin genie - hedonic setpoint 38
paranoid london - the motion (club edit)
derek plaslaiko - for play (day one)
hackney electronica - efecto perfecto
kangding ray - helios rave draft
levon vincent - continental techno version two
malin genie - hedonic setpoint 66
sard - d.o.s.
british murder boys - the set up man
truss - wyefield
kenneth graham - germs version 1
sard - posm2
galtier - tektite (gas core)
Max Watts - black elements
imugem orihasam - gleam from a distant gate

Excerpt:
"You’ve spent time in scenes from Brooklyn to Detroit to SF—how have those scenes shaped your approach to music and curation, and what makes a party or venue feel truly special to you?"

Spaces like 285 Kent (BK) and parties like GHE20G0TH1K (BK) really impressed upon me that underground culture really wasn’t about just one single aesthetic, genre, style, or artform. There are, of course, certain touchstones and common influences. All of this is ultimately rooted in the q***r and Black cultures of cities like Detroit, Chicago, etc., and our parties and spaces should reflect and respect those origins. But the styles and sounds that influence this culture are tremendously diverse.

My time in Detroit really reinforced that lesson. The aesthetic boundaries there felt pretty fluid.

05/22/2025

🌐✨ Here’s the title track from Gradient Dreams, the new EP from Michael Claus . Perfect for your next radio show or DJ set.

📡💿 Now streaming in full with download when you pre-order the full release on Bandcamp, you know where the link is ⤵️

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.

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

Composition, production, mixing: Michael Claus
Mastering: Russell E. L. Butler

05/20/2025

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.”

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/

05/14/2025

🧪🌫️ Our next release is almost here! Pre-order “Gradient Dreams”, the new EP from Michael Claus ! Four live-tested cuts of low-slung machine funk and saturated rhythms.

⚗️ Pre-order now – link in bio

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.

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

Composition, production, mixing: Michael Claus
Mastering: Russell E. L. Butler

04/01/2025

🌐 The next installment of the SE Podcast is here!

SE Founder Michael 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 track list and interview via the link in bio ( blog.silvaelectronics.net )

Excerpt:

“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.

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Tracklist:
Artist - Track name - IG

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

02/04/2025

The next installment of the SE Podcast is here! 💫

Episode 2 comes from San Francisco-based DJ and curator DJ Tips .tk_ , a key figure behind the event series and label Club Moniker .moniker . Known for his hazy, rhythmic layers and explorations of left-field experimental dance music, DJ Tips also serves as a resident for Hyper K , a monthly radio show and event series on SutroFM . This mix delivers a lush, psychedelic dreamscape of atmospheric techno, acid, and industrial, reflecting his signature sound.

Full track list and interview via the link in bio 🌐

Excerpt:

“Can you walk us through your creative process when approaching a new mix?”

I spend a lot of time browsing bandcamp via labels, and then I listen to my bookmarks while commuting. I’ve only recently started using rekordbox to organize tracks. I group them together based on key detect with some attention to genre, energy level, and rhythm. That’s about it. The rest was improvisational. I enjoy layering with 3+ decks on the spot when I catch phrases that speak to me.

Tracklist:

How to Levitate - Hours
Malin Genie - Vorm in Geluid 011
Adlas - Weathering
Midnight Traffic Mantis
John Plaza - Atomillar
Sunju Hargun - Marsa (Sunsiare Re-Interpretation)
GiGi FM - Amadamushies
monosym - Moderational
Daniel[i] & Zemög - In Flux
Arkan - Broken Clock
Oshirijima - The Zaaaarrrr Energy 134
Perfo - Crépuscule
Merino - Silence No More
VSK - Sfere a Contatto
Stenny Dirge
Furtive .sasha - Kiln
Human Space Machine - Negen
Alan Backdrop - Dr_c_
Shoal - Gerakan
Yogg - Twice The Rice
Save Your Atoll - 90’s Steps
Rainsoft - Eclipsed Time
Arthur Robert - Loyal

11/12/2024

🌀📼 solotape’s ( ) *Days on End* Part II is officially out! To celebrate, we’ve stocked up the Free section on our website with digital download codes to add it to your Bandcamp collection—first come, first serve! 👀

Digital and limited-edition cassette copies are available on our Bandcamp. This special release cassette features a reversible J-card, and purchasing it comes with digital downloads of both Part II and Part I of the album (you’ll get the Part I download code when the tape ships). 🔜

10/15/2024

🔮🌿 Silva Electronics is excited to announce the 20th entry in our catalog: Part II of solotape’s ‘Days on End’ album—A series of vignettes where simplicity breeds authenticity, delivering smoked-out jams perfect for late-night introspection. 🌃🌌

Pre-order is now available for both digital and cassette formats! 📼 This limited-edition cassette features a reversible J-card. Purchasing the tape includes a digital download of Part II and Part I (you’ll receive a digital download code for Part I when the tape ships).

🔗 in bio

Music: solotape ( )
Mastering: Mark Pistel ( )
Cover render:
Design: Saish K ( #