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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Melodies that gleam like festival lights, floor-shaking drops, sublime vocal hooks—Avicii was a master of hands-in-the-air EDM anthems. His music cuts between arena-scale house epics, hypnotic trance bangers, and crossover dance-pop smashes with the crowd-pumping skill of a killer DJ. Despite his undeniable club credentials, there's way more to the Swedish DJ-producer's sound than thumping beats and rumbling basslines. Blending sparkling synth riffs with pulsing rhythms, Avicii classics like “Levels” deliver an instant, ecstatic hit of pure pleasure, and helped set off the EDM explosion of the early '10s. But his genre-smashing tracks like “Wake Me Up,” which mashed up EDM with bluegrass and soul, go beyond mere body-moving thrills—they're bold experiments that helped introduce genuine songwriting and a spectrum of new sounds to dance music.

Blissed-out beats to leave you floating on air.

Skrillex knows heavy music, and his OWSLA label sends shock waves through the EDM scene with every release. All forms of bass music are welcome: Valentino Khan's "Deep Down Low" is subwoofer-testing house, while Getter's "Head Splitter" fuses dubstep's growl with rattling trap rhythms. But it wouldn't be a Skrillex joint without a few curveballs, like Hundred Waters' ethereal electro-pop.

Lesser-known gems and crucial album tracks. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Dance music moves at the speed of light, so here's your telescope: These are the everybody-on-the-floor bangers, crucial IDs, and innovative sounds making waves in clubs, warehouses, and festivals worldwide. Fresh styles from up-and-coming artists and bold new moves from some of the biggest in the scene: If everyone isn't talking about these songs today, they will be tomorrow. Our editors regularly refresh this playlist. If you like a track, add it to your library.

Throughout all the bass mutations of the 21st century, drum 'n' bass—the high-BPM, breakbeat-driven style that evolved out of early hardcore rave and dub-influenced jungle in the '90s—keeps going strong. The UK remains home to a vital scene that stays focused on the future without losing sight of the music's roots. These songs stem from that tradition: Deep, soulful, and fluid, they're as well-suited for listening as they are dancing. Our editors regularly refresh this playlist. If you like a track, add it to your library.

Each week, our editors round up the best new dance music. Whether it’s a woofer-flexing anthem in waiting, a feel-good tune ready for festival stages, or a slinky club jam straight from the producer’s studio, if it’s fresh and it’s got a great beat, you’ll find it here. We’re constantly rotating in the latest tracks. If you hear something you like, add it to your library.

A ’10s dance floor sounds like the experience of living in this fully plugged-in era: everything’s happening all the time. The song-to-song variety that ruled the previous decade’s parties morphed into one bottomless genre-well that each successive cut drank from. A riot of dance pulse spilled forth from collab-happy DJ/producers as varied as big-tent titan Calvin Harris and subgenre scholar Diplo. The indie floodgates broke as auteurs like Lorde made it cool to be arty and reflective. Rap absorbed new strains—emo, industrial, folk, UK dance, R&B—and spit out not only hybdrists like Drake but the inescapable trap snare. And all those forces bore down on the mainstream, where Beyoncé went from girl-group alum to multidisciplinary deity, and Justin Bieber found critical cred cooing about doubt over tropical house. The internet shrank the globe, uniting K-pop idols, Latin stars, underground outliers, and pop celebrities in one endless body-moving blowout.

House is more than a feeling: The direct descendant of disco, it's arguably the original form of modern electronic dance music. And everywhere it has bubbled up—Chicago, New York, London, and still further afield—it has absorbed local influences, putting down roots and branching into exciting new directions. These songs stay true to the old-school while carrying the flag well into the 21st century. We update this playlist regularly. If you like a track, add it to your library.

In the early ’90s, Britain provided its own trancey take on classic house. Where acid house had previously borrowed from both the Chicago sound and Detroit techno while adding squelchy bass lines, progressive house stripped those abrasive noises away in favor of more ambient textures. Thanks to the efforts of pioneering acts such as London duo Leftfield and Kent-born electronic siblings Orbital, its euphoric vibe ruled the dance-radio airwaves for the first half of the decade and helped establish a mainstream clubbing culture in the UK. The same thudding bass and ethereal touches permeate many of its most memorable songs, including Orbital’s breakthrough classic “Born Slippy” and James Holden’s remix of Nathan Fake’s “The Sky Was Pink.” Artists who’ve since picked up the repetitive-beats baton include Canadian DJ deadmau5, who toughens up prog house with EDM beats, and London indie synth-poppers Hot Chip, who add some nerdy joie de vivre.