Chicago house: jack, acid and Trax Records
The originators — Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Mr. Fingers and the raw jacking tracks that started it all.
Detroit techno and electro
Motor City futurism from Cybotron and Model 500 through May, Hood, Drexciya and Moodymann.
Deep and soulful vocal house
Warm keys, gospel-tinged vocals and New Jersey/garage swing from the 90s and 2000s.
Trip-hop and the Bristol sound
Smoky breakbeats, dub bass and haunted vocals from Massive Attack outward.
Ambient and drone for deep listening
Long-form stillness, tape decay and cinematic minimalism for headphones and quiet rooms.
Italo disco and Euro synth romance
Arpeggiated 80s continental dancefloor pop, all neon melodies and accented vocals.
Balearic and sunset selections
Blissed, sun-warmed records built for terraces and the long drive home.
French touch and filter house
Compressed disco loops and Paris-shaped funk from Daft Punk, Stardust and friends.
Dub techno, minimal and microhouse
Basic Channel echo, hypnotic loops and reduced 4/4 built for the small hours.
Nu-jazz and Ninja Tune downtempo
Live-feeling jazz-inflected chillout from the late-90s lounge and coffee-table era.
Disco, funk and soul foundations
P-Funk, boogie, garage-disco anthems and the soul records house was built on.
Classic rock and 60s psychedelia
Canonical FM rock, heavy blues and the acid-tinged late-60s.
Instrumental hip-hop and beat tapes
Dusty sample loops and head-nod instrumentals in the Shadow/Dilla lineage.
Japanese ambient and electronic
Kankyō ongaku environmental music and the playful Tokyo electronic underground.
Contemporary deep house
Present-day deep, soulful and garage-leaning house from newer producers.
Modern club techno: melodic and peak time
Big-room melodic techno and driving tech house made for main-stage hours.
Chillout, sunrise and new-age electronica
Soft-focus melodic downtempo, mostly recent, for comedowns and slow mornings.
Songwriters: folk, blues and indie
Voice-and-guitar records across generations, from Dylan and Cohen to Jessica Pratt.
Shoegaze, dream pop and new indie
Reverb-soaked guitars, hazy R&B and a crop of recent francophone indie-soul.
Berlin School and electronic pioneers
Analogue sequencer epics, modular experiments and soundtrack synth from the 70s and 80s.