Manhattan, Kansas — est. as a joke, kept as a name
Named for the feeling of running on a wheel and going nowhere. These days, there's a bit more traction.
GerbilHamster Records is a one-person label run out of Kansas by composer and instrument-builder Dane Gerous Schmidt — scoring film and TV, producing for other artists, and hand-building the synthesizers everything gets made on.
Nothing here is templated. The instruments are custom Pure Data patches built for the Organelle and Eurorack hardware; the scores are written for real productions; the artists are real people making real records. This site is where all of it lives in one place.
The people GerbilHamster Records works with, what they've made, and where to hear it.
Coming soon → INSTRUMENTSThe Shoreline Suite for Organelle M, VIGIL2 for Eurorack, and the sample packs built alongside them — granular, drifting, hand-tuned, . AfterImageM and Vigil are up now, name your price.
See the instruments → FILM AND TVScoring work including Shiitake Bird (2026), Beer Church Sitcom, and The Last Night.
Coming soon →