There’s so much good music getting dropped daily on Spotify that no one person can curate and sift through it all. And yes, that even includes the Spotify editors! As much as we love the music they’re supporting and curating on some of the most extensive playlists on the world’s most popular streaming platform, there’s too much good stuff to go through.
But we figured since finding amazing music, supporting talented artists, and sharing what we’ve seen with you is our primary goal, why not build up our playlists?! Here is a list of our favorite playlists that we will be building, all of which serve a specific purpose and vibe. Whether you’re looking for playa energy for your gym routine, a mellow organic house to wake up to, or to be educated a bit more on the types of music that made Tulum relaxed in the first place, these playlists have you covered!
So, let’s stop wasting time. Just remember to give these playlists a follow and check back on them weekly, as we spend a ton of time finding and sourcing new and fresh music every single Friday to stock these playlists.
Burning Man Workout
Take the energy of the playa and bring it into your daily fitness routine with an eclectic blend of groovy, techy, dusty, and banging tracks being played by some of the biggest Burner DJs in their sets today and from their past sets in Black Rock City.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- Uptempo music with it’s swing
- Groovy, melody-driven songs built to stay with you long after first listen
- A couple 6 AM sunrise set tracks for the moments when you need to catch your breath.
Tech Bros In Tulum
Tulum used to be the mecca of mature, underground dance music. While it still has many fantastic qualities, it’s the de facto ‘cool’ place to rage your face off these days, meaning the crowds flocking there are changing.
This playlist is packed with many commercial underground melodic techno tunes that the masses go there to see, mixed with some of the deeper cuts that made the village cool in the first place. It’s lightly educational but primarily aspirational.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- It’s got the Afterlife bangers for you to pregame before Zamna
- Groovier, world-inspired tech house for the afterparties in the jungle
- Rich and warm deep house rollers for the day parties in Tulum
Organic House Wake Up Call
Organic house genre has dominated the industry for years, and as its popularity increases, so does the music’s energy level to match the time slots its most prominent artists often play. Tim Green and Roy Rosenfeld are crushing it right now, and sometimes, their music can take a step away from the lush and downtempo instrumental beats that pioneered the genre in the first place.
But this playlist takes it down a notch, offering soft, mellow, texturally-driven beats curated to boost energy in the morning without overstimulating the nervous system.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- Slower, melody-driven house music with acoustic instrumentation
- Light and delicate melodies that aren’t too in your face
- No bangers! Just good mood boosters
Undiscovered Melodic Techno
Melodic Techno has skyrocketed in popularity over the last five years, and if you were to have asked me then if it was a flavor of the month genre, I would have said, “Of course it is.” But 2020 has proven me wrong, and labels like Afterlife completely dominate the live event space and the streaming platforms.
As such, many artists aspire to release on Afterlife or similar labels and even more are looking to carve out their path in this ever-growing niche and genre. This is the one massive playlist of the up-and-coming acts crushing it in the genre.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- There are tons of driving melodic techno music from artists you’ve never heard before
- No artist on this list has over 2k followers on Spotify, meaning that every new fan they get is a massive step forward. (so give them all a follow!)
- The artists we are actively watching are trying to find the next big thing in the melodic techno scene.
Deep House Hiking
This one is designed for off-grid listening, so enable downloading and saving it to your phone! This playlist is packed with a weekly updated set of melodic and progressive house tracks perfect for hiking and being outdoors.
All the tracks are soft enough to where they demand your attention (or other people hiking with or past you) while still having enough momentum to them that they keep you putting one foot in front of the other.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- A sonic background of deep, progressive tracks for weekend hikes
- Lots of blissful and laid-back tracks to keep you moving toward the summit
- Track recommendations for you to use when posting videos and images you’ve taken while exploring the world around you.
Undiscovered Organic House
As I said before, organic house is a genre that is popping up, and more artists than ever are looking to follow in the footsteps of artists like Sebastien Leger, Lee Burridge, Lost Desert, and more. Because this genre thrives on acoustic instrumentation and mellow grooves, a wide breadth of sounds can be labeled organic house.
Like the melodic techno playlist mentioned above, it is designed to bring attention to the minor acts crushing it in the organic house scene, who all deserve the attention you could give them.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- We find weekly updates of any more minor acts with less than 2k Spotify followers.
- Laid-back and melodically-driven organic tracks to add to your playlists
- There are a ton of incredibly talented artists whom we are monitoring to find the next big thing to cover on the site.
The Best Tech House Tracks Of The Month
Our big Kahuna of all things tech house is in playlist form. Every month, our team of professional curators and music editors comb the internet to find some of the best tracks to release in our favorite genres of music to be given its dedicated editorial.
This playlist and accompanying charts mix the biggest and best tracks that have dropped. Sure, there’s some music from notable names and massive labels in the space, like Toolroom and others, but you might also find some smaller names who make fire music. It’s worth checking every few weeks to see what’s been included.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- The grooviest tech house bangers from the industry’s hottest producers
- Undiscovered gems unearthed by our team of pro-curators
- Find new labels releasing killer tech house to follow and fall in love with
Top Bass Music Tracks Of 2024
It’s the same concept as teh Tech House charts above, with much more sub and halftime. Our team of professional curators takes anything with a f**k ton of bass, filters out everything but the best of the best, and includes it in these monthly charts.
So whether you’re a fan of that sticky experimental bass or the speaker-thrashing roars of good-ole dubstep, our monthly charts (in playlist form) will give you whiplash from all that headbanging.
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- Deep and heady wubz
- Dubstep that’s good (not over-compressed Brostep)
- A couple of dope trap, D&B, and Riddim tracks are thrown in there for flavor as well.
Top Melodic Techno Tracks Of 2024
Above on this list we talked about the playlist that features some of the best upcoming talent in the melodic techno world. While the up-and-comers deserve as much attention as they can get, this playlist is packed with only the creme de la creme of the industry. Much like the rest of our editorial charts, this is a highly curated, short-and-sweet list of the absolute best melodic techno bangers from the top labels like Afterlife (duh), Dynamic, and others.
So if you’re a DJ looking for the hottest tunes that just dropped for your meldoic techno sets, A&R who need fresh recommendations on the top talent, or just want to keep an ear to the pulse of what’s dropping in the scene but want to look outside the influence of the Spotify editors, we got you!
What This Playlist’s Got In It
- Tight, punchy mixes with massive productions
- Lots of ethereal stuff on top of banging kicks/bass
- Probably more LFO synths than you can count.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
