CLAUDE VONSTROKE RELEASES NEW SINGLE “STATIC IN THE DEEP END”

Claude VonStroke returns with “Static In The Deep End,” the first taste of his forthcoming album, Wrong Number - a misguided musical offering for anyone still chasing the feeling of a dark room, a proper sound system, and zero interest in what’s trending.

More than 20 years into his career, it has become clear that Claude never quite got the memo. “Static In The Deep End” contains no superstar DJ collaborations, no chart-ready vocal hooks, and absolutely no giant drum builds engineered for fireworks and cryo blasts. Instead, it drifts confidently in the opposite direction - engineered to provoke feelings instead of bottle service.

One can imagine Claude alone in the studio, obsessing over drums like it's still the early 2000s, sampling himself, tweaking microscopic details no one asked for, then dancing around the room like a freak. The track leans into late-night energy - slightly crooked rhythms, patient tension, and grooves that don’t scream for attention but quietly pull you under.

Inspired by the spirit of long-lost German minimal and house labels, “Static In The Deep End” comfortably exists in its own lane. It’s hard to explain exactly what’s happening inside the record, but it’s obvious Claude is perfectly fine not playing the game. He’s more than happy to call the wrong number and have a conversation with something unfamiliar.

The result feels like a club track from another time - or maybe from a parallel universe where quality rules the day.

One detail that makes Wrong Number even more insular and personal: nearly all of the vocals across the album come from inside the VonStroke household. Every sung phrase, vocal texture, and strange little grunt throughout the record is performed by Claude’s son, Jasper - with the exception of the phone conversation on the title track (a dialogue between Claude and his wife, Aundy). His daughter, Ella, appears on several tracks as well - making the project, quite literally, a family affair.

Jasper, currently in his second year at USC as a pop vocal major (one of just eight students accepted into the program from thousands of applicants), is also opening for Claude as a DJ on his U.S. tour this summer. Rather than chasing features or big-name collaborators, Claude kept the entire vocal palette in-house. It’s another “wrong” decision that feels exactly right - raw, personal, and free from expectation.

The single also marks the beginning of Claude’s current run of intentionally intimate shows across Japan and Europe. Small, sweaty rooms built for people who actually want to listen. Sometimes as few as 300 heads. Big paydays politely declined.

Claude may be dialing the wrong number for right now, but if you pick up, you might realize you’ve been missing this kind of call all along.

Tour Dates:

March 14 — Los Angeles, CA — 1720 Warehouse
March 21 — Nashville, TN — Deep Tropics Festival
Apr 3 — Tokyo, Japan — Vent
Apr 24 — Copenhagen, Denmark — Culturebox
Apr 25 — Prague, Czech Republic — Part Time Locals
Apr 26 — Berlin, Germany — Panorama Bar
May 1 — Geneva, Switzerland — Audio Club
May 2 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — 19 Below
May 7 — Leeds, United Kingdom — Distrikt.
May 8 — Bristol, United Kingdom — Clock Factory
May 9 — London, United Kingdom — Night Tales
May 15 — Oslo, Norway — Jaeger
May 16 — Cologne, Germany — Gewölbe

More on Claude VonStroke:

In 2026, Claude VonStroke continues delivering his brand of quirky and emotional house music. Peak-time frenzy is replaced with patient, low-lit records built for proper underground establishments. Mega-fests are off the calendar. In their place: intimate nights in Berlin, New York, Tokyo. It’s all the same meticulous, slightly twisted production, but now leaner and more underground.

For more than a decade, Claude helped shape modern tech house through his A&R work, introducing artists such as Fisher, Eats Everything, Catz n’ Dogz, and Nikki Nair. He built festivals, club institutions, and some of the first large-scale streetwear drops in dance music. In 2022, with love and admiration, he sold everything. Unsure of what would come next, Claude returned to creating. Drawn back to what he first fell in love with listening to labels like Playhouse, Pokerflat, and Planet E, he recalibrated, not to repeat the past, but to get back in tune with his original calling. In doing so, he gave himself permission to make wrong turns, mistakes, chase imperfect ideas, and get lost again, the same way he did when he was first discovering who he was as an artist.

Wrong Number is a collection of those mistakes.

Instead of festival main stages, it’s tightly curated, small-capacity venues, it’s vibes instead of paychecks. It’s all the wrong business decisions for all the right reasons. Instead of chasing trends, VonStroke is making records that feel personal again. Deep, odd, slightly off-center. In answering the call, Wrong Number pulls him into a broader creative universe that now moves beyond music and deeper into film, art, and fashion.

A new artist album lands in 2026, followed by a worldwide tour focused on some of the best, most intentional rooms on earth.

When everything feels too right, It's time for some wrong...

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