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A tie-dye tutorial and five years of FL Studio

Nina Jo Wilson was born on 10 August 1999 in Kincumber, a small town on the New South Wales Central Coast. She played clarinet at primary school and messed about in GarageBand, but the turn came at twelve, when a YouTube tie-dye tutorial happened to be soundtracked by Madeon's "Pop Culture" mash-up. She went looking for the track, found instrumental dance music, and started trying to build it herself.

What followed was roughly five years of self-teaching in FL Studio before a move to Ableton Live — an apprenticeship long enough that by 2021 she was building the official demo project shipped with Ableton Live 11. She has been blunt about how little she grasped at the outset: "I didn't understand why EDM had a buildup and a drop, or why that was a formula." Through Gosford High School and shifts at Yogurtland, production stayed a hobby rather than a plan. Her first concert as a teenager was Porter Robinson at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, a detail that pays off eight years later.

Unearthed High to NLV Records

triple j's Unearthed High competition took her as a finalist twice, in 2016 and again in 2017. The record that broke the surface was "Pure Luck" with Freya Staer in 2017, which went into high rotation on the station. In 2018 she signed to NLV Records, the label run by Nina Las Vegas, and has stayed there since — the debut album and the 2026 Porter Robinson duet both came out through it.

The releases arrived steadily rather than in a rush: the Lapland EP in 2019, Blumiere in 2020, True North with Kota Banks the same year, the Second Nature mixtape in November 2022 and the 4x4 EP in 2023. Across them the palette narrowed and sharpened — hard dance, electro house, trance and progressive house taken apart at the seams and reassembled with more attention to texture than to floor function.

The EP that named the sound

The 2024 EP girl EDM gave the whole project a handle that stuck. Writers picked it up as a genre tag; Wilson uses it as an address, running her ticketing and tour pages on girledm.com. The music beneath the phrase is club music assembled from late-2000s and early-2010s EDM parts — supersaw leads, trance arpeggios, hard-dance kicks — glitched, iced over and compressed in a way that owes as much to hyperpop as to the festival main stage it references.

The distinction that carried her out of the producer bracket is that the tracks are written as songs rather than tools. The hooks are sung, the arrangements resolve, and the sentiment is not buried under the sound design. That is the thread that the debut album pulled all the way through.

I Love My Computer

The debut album landed on 8 August 2025 through NLV Records, running 39 minutes and 49 seconds. It was trailed by five singles: "All I Am" on 25 February 2025, "Fuck My Computer" on 14 May, "iPod Touch" on 20 June, "Infohazard" on 17 July and "It's You" on release day.

Critics treated it as more than a genre exercise. The Guardian's Jared Richards called it "an immensely fun and inventive dance album that doubles as a surprisingly touching coming-of-age story"; Pitchfork scored it 7.8 and The Line of Best Fit gave it nine out of ten. It reached number 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart and topped the Australian dance albums chart, and charted abroad at number five on the UK Dance Albums chart.

Australian awards season then did the rest. At the 2025 ARIA Awards she took eight nominations, more than any other artist that year, and won three: Best Solo Artist, the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist Award and Best Independent Release. The album also took the 2025 Australian Music Prize and the J Award for Australian Album of the Year, with a second J Award for the "Fuck My Computer" video, and six wins at the 2026 AIR Awards including Independent Album of the Year.

2026: Coachella, a ransomware love song, and a chart entry in America

She made her Coachella debut in April 2026, and used it to premiere something unreleased. "WannaCry", a duet with Porter Robinson, was played live for the first time on 10 April, then road-tested at Primavera Sound, EDC Las Vegas and her own Dark Crystal shows before arriving on 28 July 2026 via NLV Records. Robinson had wanted to work with her for some time; the pair built the track over two days in the same American city, starting from a lead melody he had already sketched. It runs 3 minutes 39, and is written from the point of view of the 2017 ransomware worm it is named after, tracking the thing's spread, its peak and its death.

Stereogum described it as a "throbbing trance track"; The Music's Tyler Jenke called it stellar; The New York Times listed it among the songs it was talking about for the week of 31 July 2026. It reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, number eight on the ARIA Australian Artist chart and number 33 on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart — her first substantial American chart showing.

The summer either side of it was festival work: Lollapalooza in Chicago on 30 July, Hinterland in Saint Charles, Iowa on 31 July, and All Things Go in Washington DC on 25 September. She has also gone on record against the use of AI in music production, which sits oddly and deliberately alongside an album named after a computer.

Three legs, three continents

The touring year started in Europe. Tickets went on sale on 14 January 2026 for a run that opened at Le Trabendo in Paris on 17 March and finished at Strange Brew in Bristol on 28 March, taking in Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, Brighton and London, with Glasgow-based KAVARI and Sydney producer Laces supporting throughout. The Manchester date filled Gorilla's 550 capacity. The Mancunion's review, published on 3 April, noted city-specific visuals — the word "Manchester" filling the screen behind the decks — album material threaded with her collaborations alongside underscores and Frost Children, and an unreleased remix in the encore. "I can't believe the energy in this room – thank you so much!" she told the room.

July brought the largest Australian headline dates she has played, billed as Dark Crystal V: the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, the Princess Theatre in Brisbane, The Gov in Adelaide, the Forum in Melbourne and the Rechabite in Perth, with Lucy Bedroque and daine opening. Rolling Stone Australia reviewed the sold-out Enmore show on 3 July: 90 minutes, opening on drones and glitch before dropping into "London Song", "It's You" performed with daine, "All I Am" among the peaks, and a production of LED-lit cables and an outsized screen running Windows-era graphics. "First hometown show… since my life changed," she told the crowd.

The North American leg, titled I Love My Computer and It Loves Me, went on presale on 6 May and general sale on 7 May. It opens on 17 September at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, then Denver's Ogden Theatre on 19 September, Newport Music Hall in Columbus on 22 September, Royale in Boston on 30 September, Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on 2 October and Brooklyn Steel on 3 October, closing at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on 12 November. MGNA CRRRTA supports on every date. She is also opening for Tame Impala on Australian dates in October.