Doc Sleep
Doc Sleep produces textural, atmospheric dance music and co-runs the acclaimed Jacktone label. With roots in the Midwest, she moved to San Francisco and became a staple of the Bay Area queer party scene, and eventually relocated to Germany. She released several EPs, including 2019's Crème Fraîche, before making her full-length debut in 2023 with the lush ambient techno release Birds (In My Mind Anyway). The similarly ethereal Cloud Sight Fade followed in 2024.
Originally from Minneapolis, Melissa Maristuen first used the name Dr. Sleep when she began spinning at clubs and parties around the Bay Area during the early 2010s. She co-founded Jacktone with Darren Cutlip (dabecy) in 2013, and the experimentation-friendly label issued music ranging from dream pop and ambient to IDM and techno, usually on cassette and often by artists without any prior releases. She relocated to Berlin in 2015 and became part of the queer collective Room 4 Resistance, while she continued co-running Jacktone and expanding the label's network. Her first two EPs as Doc Sleep appeared on Detour (2016) and Bottom Forty Records (2017). She released the digital EP Your Ruling Planet in 2019, and Crème Fraîche appeared on Dark Entries, with remixes by Violet and rRoxymore. She collaborated with Glenn Astro as Beats Unlimited, issuing a self-titled cassette and a 7" single in 2021. Additionally, she formed the project Collectibles with homemade synth artist Fashion Flesh. Doc Sleep's debut album, an eclectic set of downtempo and IDM pieces titled Birds (In My Mind Anyway), was released by Tartelet Records in 2023. Cloud Sight Fade, a mixture of spacy ambient techno and light breakbeat tracks, was released by Dark Entries in 2024.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Birds (in my mind anyway)
Electronic - Released by Tartelet Records on Mar. 17, 2023
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Crème Fraîche
Electronic - Released by Dark Entries Records on May 14, 2019
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Flooding Meadow
Electronic - Released by Tartelet Records on Feb. 22, 2023
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Cloud Sight Fade
House - Released by Dark Entries Records on Mar. 8, 2024
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C&L at the Sea
Electronic - Released by Tartelet Records on Feb. 1, 2023
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Professor Eucalyptus
House - Released by Dark Entries Records on Jan. 26, 2024
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Water Sign
House - Released by Dark Entries Records on Feb. 27, 2024
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Tomorrow is Beautiful!
Electronic - Released by Tartelet Records on Jan. 11, 2023
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Step on It, Snakey
Electronic - Released by Doc Sleep on Apr. 7, 2023
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Your Ruling Planet
Techno - Released by Jacktone Records on Feb. 26, 2019
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Against All Odds
Children - Released by Sleep Doc on Jan. 22, 2021
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