genre mixes

For some smoother listening, we break down our main playlist into five mixes: instrumental, electronic, post-rock, beats, & "other" (a lovely jumble). We update the big playlist every month or two, and we update these genre mixes annually.

Check them all out below, and follow your fancy:

Instrumental

Jazz, classical, bluegrass, guitar, piano, and essentially anything without (much) percussion – a mix of instrumental songs from acts like Cinematic Orchestra, GoGo Penguin, Grandbrothers, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Julian Lage, Khruangbin, Mammal Hands, Ólafur Arnalds, Punch Brothers, William Tyler, and more...

Electronic

If it has a computery-sounding beat, it ends up here. Mix of Bonobo, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, Max Cooper, Maribou State, Moderat, Rival Consoles, Tourist, Tycho, and more.

Post-rock

Not everybody's cup of tea, but a testament to our mutual love of epically-long guitar-heavy crescendo jams (though we try to keep things under ~10 minutes, which excludes some classics). Songs by Caspian, El Ten Eleven, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Sigur Rós, and others...

Beats

Our newest genre mix and still an experiment, this playlist features beats, breaks, lo-fi (and other-fi) jams by the likes of Arms and Sleepers, Clams Casino, Flying Lotus, Inf, Karriem Riggins, Tom Misch, and Yussef Dayes, as well as wordless tunes by MF Doom, Oddisee, Wu-Tang Clang, and more.

Other

If it doesn't fit elsewhere, mixes genres, or defies categorization, it goes here. An eclectic mix (one of our favorites) with acts like the Album Leaf, Delicate Steve, Portico Quartet, Richard Houghten, Tom Day, Yppah...