Gaming analogies rarely translate convincingly into electronic music, yet Jodie Nicholson’s latest collaboration under her soft centre moniker transforms digital escapism into visceral sonic reality.
Working with production duo Ken Petalcorin and Andy Bowden, she creates what genuinely feels like navigating an epic, utopian open-world environment—each hypnotic hook functioning as checkpoint, every soaring melody as gateway to unexplored territory. The track operates in that sweet spot where breaks, melodic techno and trance converge without losing sight of the human voice at its centre, Nicholson’s transportive vocals threading through jittery electronics and swirling atmospherics with remarkable precision.
As a purely collaborative project designed to expand what it means to be an artist in 2025, soft centre represents Nicholson’s boldest creative gamble—using her toplining alter-ego to explore avenues of electronica that her solo work might never venture into. Following her supported single, ‘Mazes‘ demonstrates an artist comfortable with relinquishing control to find new forms of expression, allowing the producers’ uncompromising sonic vision to provide the perfect foil for her hypnotic lyricism. The result feels both cinematic and intimate, a dancefloor-ready anthem that maintains the exploratory spirit that makes collaboration so essential to forward-thinking electronic music.
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