LA-BASED PRODUCER/VIOLINIST/EDUCATOR INVITES YOU TO HER DREAM SLUMBER PARTY ON HER LATEST ELECTRONIC EP MIDNIGHT
September 2, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
Today, LA-based artist, producer, multi-instrumentalist and educator Bad Snacks shares her newest EP, MIDNIGHT, her most expansive body of work to date. It’s her second EP with Nettwerk, following 2024 offering Home Music, and finds inspiration everywhere from Adult Swim to Berlin techno, baile funk and Italo-disco to the Chemical Brothers.
“The idea behind MIDNIGHT,” shares Bad Snacks, “was to encapsulate all the things I’d envision in my dream slumber party; throwbacks to late 90s house, a healthy dose of jazz, moodier jams à la LA’s Low End Theory, and prompts for meaningful heart-to-heart conversations. It’s a body of work that explores the lines between joy, thoughtfulness, and bold statements. The tracks flow from weightless and sparkling to velvet and moody to strong and unapologetic to warm and comforting within the span of 23 minutes, and it’s an honest reflection of how seamlessly we can shift between conversations and between contexts. In its making, I also realized how it became a deep-dive into an expression of feminine energy.”
2024 was a certifiable breakout year for Bad Snacks. With Home Music, she embraced a sound she calls “comfortable house”—tunes for the more introverted, easily overstimulated types who love bumping club music but would prefer to do so in a cozy pair of PJs—and received attention from the likes of Billboard, NYLON and DJ Mag. She spent most of the summer going hard on the electronic festival circuit: playing major fests (North Coast, Solshine Reverie, Same Same But Different) and opening for high-profile artists (LP Giobbi, Tycho, Sudan Archives).
When Bad Snacks returned to the studio to record MIDNIGHT, the spirit of these amped-up shows still coursed through her veins, inspiring her to go bigger than ever before. Part of why this EP reaches new peaks is a refined approach to adding layers and textures, resulting in a heightened contrast between buildup and drop.
“This EP focuses much more on undeniable grooves, on moments I can share with an audience, and the tension and space in between that makes every other moment come to life,” Bad Snacks shares. “My comfort zone has always been about layering textures, synths, and strings, but I really tried to step out and carve out more space – sometimes literal silence. It’s been a massive exercise in restraint while also learning how to push things way further.”
To bring this idyllic slumber party to life, Bad Snacks enlisted the help of saxophonist Nicole McCabe & piano virtuoso Noah Kellman, key collaborators from LA’s jazz/electronic scene.
“Nicole… is a lightning rod of a saxophonist who can rip incredibly hard and incredibly beautifully. [And Noah is] a dynamite keyboardist and harmony genius who was able to elevate this project to the stars with even just a few short cameos,” shares Bad Snacks. “I’m very lucky to be a part of the LA music scene, because very few other places on earth allow for the mesh between jazz and electronic music quite like we do here.”
MIDNIGHT Tracklist
01. it was always u <3
02. show me how u do it! (ft. Nicole McCabe)
03. moon bloom
04. say it like u mean it!!!
05. time is a flat circle, babe
06. howling
07. nightcap
