@Kate Stewart

Since the days of white-label 12-inches, electronic music has been as prolific as it is progressive, and these days the sheer number of weekly releases is astronomical. Stay on top of the deluge with a handpicked selection of essential new tunes taking the genre to places you may never have imagined. We add a new track to this playlist every day. If you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Life comes at you fast; all the more reason we need music to absorb the impact. Though electronic music will always be associated with dancing and clubs, contemporary producers are just as often focused on laidback grooves and enveloping atmospheres aimed at relaxation and emotional refuge. That might mean weightless breakbeats, blissed-out deep house, or even contemporary invocations of the chill-out rooms of yore. This playlist is updated regularly with new and classic tracks, so if you like something, add it to your library.

Funk can be hot—think blazing basslines, belted vocals, drums pushed in the red—but it can also be delectably chill. These soulfully funky electronic tracks might raise the pulse, but they also steady the nerves. Woven together from deep-in-the-pocket beats, head-nodding sample flips, and carefully chosen instrumental leads, then sprinkled with futuristic energy, these selections are perfect for beach parties, backyard BBQs, and anywhere else that warm sun and good vibes are in abundance. This playlist is updated regularly, so if you hear a song you like, add it to your library.

Rediscover the genre's chart-toppers, classics, and lost favorites. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

If you’re after just the hits, this is where you’ll find them: a handpicked selection of electronic music's biggest songs of the past few years. Our editors update this playlist regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Massive Attack's collaborators highlight hidden dimensions in their moody downbeat. Mad Professor's album-length dub of their 1994 album Protection plays up dank echoes and psychedelic energies; Larry Heard's slinky rework of “Any Love” brings out a seldom-heard house groove. Brooding guest vocalists like Ghostpoet and Young Fathers make the most of the band's eerily atmospheric backdrops.

Not many artists can claim to have remixed Soundgarden, David Bowie, and Daft Punk, but Moby's diverse background leaves him well-positioned for such stylistic border-hopping. “Harbour,” with Sinead O'Connor, is a wistful take on Americana; “Dog Heaven,” from his Voodoo Child alias, is a weightless ambient miniature. “Barracuda,” on the other hand, is industrial-tinged techno at its noisiest.

When collaborating with French electronic's leading lights, Air subtly stretch their sound's dimensions. Back in 1996 they sketched out their downbeat sound with Etienne de Crécy on “Soldissimo”; Mr. Oizo's glitchy remix of “Don't Be Light,” meanwhile, aims for the dance floors that Air's music usually skirts. And “Close Your Eyes,” with Jean-Michel Jarre, is a perfect merger of the duo's dreamy atmospheres with the pioneer's analog sensibility.

With apologies to James Dean, it's well established that the French pretty much invented cool, and Paris' Ed Banger label renewed the patent for at least another lifetime. Busy P's band of rebels—like Justice, SebastiAn and Feadz—have perfected a louche, sleazy fusion of house, disco and electro that can make going out to get the paper feel like all-nighting in a Left Bank boîte.