Second EDC 2026 clip in the queue and SUPERSTRINGS went a darker, more cinematic route than Ship Wreck. “NEON DUSK PROTOCOL” sounds exactly like its ridiculous name, in the best possible way, all sci-fi tension and arpeggios that feel like a synthwave movie chase scene scored for 40,000 sweaty people. The all-caps title had me bracing for cheese and instead I got genuinely menacing trance with teeth. The breakdown around the midpoint strips everything back to a single pulsing line before the whole machine roars back to life, and the crowd reaction on the clip says it landed in person. I love when a producer commits this hard to a concept and refuses to wink at the camera about it. There’s no irony here, just full-send drama, and it works because they mean it. Trance has been quietly getting weird and good again, and sets like this are the proof. Watch it twice. Once for the drop, once for the lights.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.