Chicago house: jack, acid and Trax Records
The originators — Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Mr. Fingers and the raw jacking tracks that started it all.
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.
IDM and braindance
Warp-school machine music: broken rhythms, melodic circuitry and glitch abstraction.
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.
90s rave, big beat and progressive electronica
Album-length UK dance from the Orb, Orbital, Underworld and the Chemical Brothers era.
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.
Drum and bass, jungle and liquid
Rolling breaks from atmospheric Bukem-style liquid to darker neurofunk.
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.
Synth-pop, new wave and early industrial
Cold synthesizers and eyeliner pop from Kraftwerk and Numan to Soft Cell and Throbbing Gristle.
Punk and post-punk
First-wave snarl, art-damaged post-punk and the American hardcore that followed.
Classic rock and 60s psychedelia
Canonical FM rock, heavy blues and the acid-tinged late-60s.
The jazz canon and spiritual jazz
Blue Note and Impulse! landmarks, from Kind of Blue to Karma.
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.
Grunge and 90s alt-rock
Sub Pop sludge, Seattle radio rock and the angry end of the alternative decade.
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.