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and on Saturday, December 13th!4. Love Any Longer — Big Wild
“Love Any Longer” is the first big widescreen moment of the act. Big Wild has a knack for making electronic music feel like it’s being played by a live band. This track leans into that with sturdy drums, warm bass, and glittering synths that keep swelling up around the vocal. The hook feels like a conversation with yourself at the edge of a relationship — how long can you ignore the cracks before you say it out loud?
As a producer, Big Wild sits comfortably in that space between indie, electronic, and pop. There’s always a hint of festival-size emotion baked into the arrangements. Dropping this here pushes the playlist from smoky R&B into something more cinematic and cathartic, lifting the emotional stakes without losing the groove.
5. Hive-Minded (feat. pheel.) — Smigonaut
Where Big Wild goes expansive, Smigonaut goes intricate. “Hive-Minded” is a tight, twitchy slice of modern bass music. You get angular drums, buzzing synth lines, and little glitchy details that keep darting around the stereo field. pheel.’s contributions add a human touch of vocal textures and melodic phrases that float above the mechanical precision underneath.
Smigonaut is one of those producers who clearly sweats the small stuff. Every sound here feels hand-crafted, but the track still moves with a head-nod bounce instead of collapsing into a sound-design exercise. In the context of Act 1, this is the pivot into full-on producer-brain territory. It acts a reminder that this project is as much about craft and texture as it is about hooks.
6. Lunar Fade — Jade Cicada
“Lunar Fade” dives even deeper into the experimental end of the pool. Jade Cicada’s style is all warped geometry: fractured rhythms, alien lead sounds, and basslines that feel like they’re constantly folding in on themselves. The track lives somewhere between glitch-hop, psybass, and sci-fi soundtrack. It’s dense but surprisingly fluid once your ears adjust.
There are no lyrics to hang onto, just a sense of being pulled through a series of shifting rooms… one moment sparse and echoing, the next packed with cascading arpeggios and stuttering percussion. Positioned here, “Lunar Fade” acts as the trippy midpoint detour of Act 1 — a descent into the weirder corners of 2025’s sound before the playlist eventually climbs back toward clarity and emotional directness in the final third.
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