how a set is built
63 nights · 2023 → 2025
Set Flow
avg records sampled per song · across the set (open → close)
PL sets build: density rises through the set and peaks in the back third, where segues (▲) cluster. Sample density, not loudness. No audio data.
fewer seguesmore · height = records/song · ▲ peak-jam
Pretty Lights sets BUILD: sample density climbs through the set and peaks in the back third, exactly where the segues bunch up.
Source63 archived shows · 2023–2025 · fan-curated setlist + sampling data
ReadingMirror “waveform”: bar height = mean records sampled per song in that slice; colour = share of songs that are “ x ” segues; ▲ = above-average-segue slice. A density proxy for build, never loudness/energy/amplitude (no audio in the data).
the songs that open vs. close the night
Endings are ritual, openings a coin-flip: two songs close ~⅓ of nights; no opener tops a handful. Bars = nights bookended. Click to search.
Endings are ritual, openings a coin-flip: two songs close roughly a third of all nights, while no single opener tops a handful.
Source63 archived shows · 2023–2025 · fan-curated setlist + sampling data
ReadingBars = how many of the 63 nights each song bookended. First setlist entry = opener; last = closer.
what follows what
1,272 setlist entries
Transitions
—distinct pairings
—songs with a follower
—pairings seen 3+ times
—songs with a fixed follower
song → next song · arcs above run forward, below run back
Almost none of these pairings repeat. Over a thousand distinct song-to-song transitions show up across the archive, so the set order is close to freshly decided every night.
occasional followernear-certain · thickness = times seen
Not one song in the archive has a follower it reliably keeps. The strongest pairing in two years, The Sound of Silence into Hot Rox, holds only about half the time.
Source63 archived shows · 2023–2025 · fan-curated setlist + sampling data
ReadingSongs sit on the axis by career plays. Each arc is an observed transition: thickness = how many times, colour = the share of that song’s followers this one accounts for. Above the line the follower is further right on the axis, below it is further left. Position on the axis is play count, not set position.
Strongest pairings
multi-night runs
every song, every run
Run Rotation
—multi-night runs
—nights inside a run
—runs with zero repeats
—mean repeat rate
one tick per song played · one row per run · nights left to right
When Pretty Lights books consecutive nights in one room, the setlists barely overlap. Across two years of runs the repeats are countable on your hands, and they are all named below.
returned another night
played once this run
Sixteen of twenty multi-night runs repeat nothing at all. A three-night stand is three different shows, not one show played three times.
Source63 archived shows · 2023–2025 · fan-curated setlist + sampling data
ReadingA run is consecutive nights at one venue, allowing a single night off. Each tick is one song on one night; gold means that song also appeared on another night of the same run. Songs repeated twice within a SINGLE night are not repeats here. Medleys are matched as written, so a song played standalone one night and inside a medley the next reads as two different entries: at most 4.5% of setlist rows, which bounds how far this undercounts.