All Playlists

Venezuelan Jazz (1999-2025)

A selection of musicians from the Venezuelan diaspora - blending jazz, Afro-Latin rhythm, salsa, and folk traditions into vibrant contemporary music shaped by culture, place, emotion, and lived experience >

Bowie 100 (1965-2015)

Curated for the tenth anniversary of Bowie’s passing, these one hundred tracks trace a legendary career shaped by love of music, fearless experimentation - from mod beginnings, through glam rock, eighties pop, and ending with Blackstar’s dark swansong >

Berlin School (1971-80)

In celebration of the finale of Stranger Things, this Berlin School playlist revisits the work of space ambient pioneers whose analogue electronics became the blueprint for modern and retro sci-fi soundtracks >

Albums of the Year (2025)

Once again, Beedier brings together eclectic tracks from some of the past year’s most acclaimed albums, each with a - sometimes loose - connection to buildings, architecture, urbanism, and place. Hit shuffle, and if something catches your ear, dive into the full album >

Tin Pan Alley Christmas (1930-50)

A playlist of original Tin Pan Alley winter and Christmas compositions presented in early recordings, revealing how radio, Broadway, and Hollywood shaped seasonal popular song >

Winter Bangs (2025)

A winter selection of club sounds, global rhythms and crisp dance-pop - Beedier brings together the brighter cuts and darker corners of this season’s techno and house releases >

New World Divas (2000-25)

Rosalía’s astonishing new album has been spinning on our digital turntable this week, so we decided to make a collection of contemporary divas blending tradition, experimentation, and powerful, boundary-breaking pop >

Horror Movie Soundtracks (1973-92)

Beedier celebrates Halloween with eerie scores, sinister synths, and haunting compositions drawn from the shadowy depths of horror’s golden age >

Modern Hypnotic Techno (2015-25)

Beedier contributor Gigi King brings together a hypnotic selection of European techno - evolving rhythms and layered textures resonating from Berlin clubs to after hours parties in Madrid >

Bristol Sound (1991-2015)

A 25 year timeline of Bristol’s influential electronic music scene - tracing its development through trip-hop, jungle, dubstep, and contemporary techno >

English Pastoral School (1904-50)

Beedier presents a sweeping journey through English Pastoral classical music - luminous landscapes, folk-tinged motifs, and serene elegy from Vaughan Williams to Butterworth, Delius, Moeran, Finzi, Bax, and others >

Freak Folk & Experimental Indie (1998-2009)

A decade of bold, boundary‑blurring experimentation across North America — from Montréal to Brooklyn and beyond — where folk, noise, pop, and psychedelia intertwined to create surreal, emotionally charged, and sonically adventurous indie rock >

Golden Age Hip Hop (1988-94)

The Golden Age era developed the genre towards intricate lyricism with jazz-driven samples and innovative production, creating socially conscious, musically rich tracks that defined Hip Hop's vibrant underground and set a lasting blueprint for modern rap >

Gorge Techno (2013-25)

Gorge emerged from Japan’s electronic underground and has since echoed across forests, summits, and dancefloors worldwide. A niche genre inspired by mountaineering and the human urge to ascend - its sound is elemental, built from the textures of rock, carabiner, wind, fatigue, and awe >

Beach Rock (2008-17)

A decade of west cost US low-fi indie rock featuring surf guitars, hazy vocals, and jangly rhythms conjuring nostalgic carefree coastal summers, sunlit bliss, and romantic melancholy >

Summer Bangs (2025)

Beedier presents a journey through the world’s hottest summer dancefloor bangers, blending sun-soaked rhythms, underground club heat, and irresistible hooks from every corner of the globe >

British Psych and Heavy Rock (1970)

In tribute to the passing of Ozzy, Beedier curates a collection of tracks from the birth of rock’s dark underground, where hard blues, psych and pagan ritual collided in 1970 - a seminal year in British rock history - the birth of metal >

Electrolux (2009-14)

We coined the name Electrolux to collect a distinct wave of electronic music that is reminscent of the rhythmic abstract sounds of household appliances - vacuum cleaners, washing machines, humming circuits - blending grime, and wonky bass influences into something glitchy and mechanical >

Oasis Plus (1994-2024)

The Gallagher brothers from Burnage in Manchester reunited on tour this weekend. Beedier presents a chronological overview of their best music - from the first Oasis singles, to their post-separation bands, solo releases and collaborations >

Brill Building Pop (1958-65)

Not many musical genres are named after a building, but the Brill Building hit house defined an era of pop with soaring girl-group harmonies, and songs of teenage heartbreak by songwriters such as Carole King, Ellie Greenwich and Burt Bacharach >

Sophisti-pop (1982-88)

A refined collection of jazz and soul-inflected pop of 1980s Britain, where romantic melancholy, sleek production and snappy dressing met the post-punk generation’s grown-up turn toward sophistication >

Japanese Anime (1985-2024)

A whistlestop tour of 40 years of Japanese pop soundtracks for anime, led by female vocalists and songwriters including Akino Arai, Maaya Sakamoto, and Mika Nakashima. >

Old School Hip Hop (1984-87)

Another delve into the history of Hip Hop with a mix of mid-eighties tracks that utilise the classic amen break on the 808 drum machine with scratching, cut samples, human beatbox, and braggadocio raps >

Italo House (1989-92)

In honour of the opening of the 2025 Venice Biennale, Beedier has dug out a playlist of classic Italian dance tracks from the first wave of house music from Southern Europe. Piano chimes, disco samples, and soul vocals ring through >

Latin American Contemporary Classical (1999-2024)

A selection from the best orchestral and ensemble compositions by a diverse range of Latin American composers from the past 25 years >

Spring Bangs (2025)

The spring weather has been glorious, so Beedier presents a playlist of the best club, dance, techno, house and R&B tracks of the year so far, to put some more bounce in the step >

Post-Dubstep (2009-12)

Emerging in London in the early 2010s, Post-Dubstep softened the bass-heavy sound of dubstep with experimental electronic, R&B, and ambient influences, showcasing artists like James Blake, Mount Kimbie, and Joy Orbison >

Shoegaze (1990-93)

Spiralling out of the British new wave and dream pop scene - Shoegaze was the sound of guitar effects pedals, and soft abstract lyrics from Gen X introspectives >

Heartland Rock (1975-85)

The sound of the American industrialised north in the seventies and eighties, echoing factory towns and faded dreams - songs of resilience and blue-collar pride >

Techno Brasileiro (2023-25)

It's carnival weekend in Sao Paulo, and next week in Rio, so Beedier presents a collection of some of the best Brazilian club tracks of the past three years. Brazil is dancing this month, and so can you >

Progressive Folk (1969-78)

Music very much of its time, but also of the past - the folk revival boom in the sixties preceded a wave of artists who fused the sentimantility of historic music from the British Isles, with psychedelic experimentation >

US Power Pop (1974-82)

A generation of US bands hovering around California and other states created a post-modern sound that directly fused sixties British Merseybeat with garage and punk rock. Beedier collects some of the tracks from the Power Pop era >

Detroit Techno (1985-1990)

Beedier continues its retrospective playlist series of urban electronic club experimentation, with a focus on the massively influential Detroit scene in the late eighties >

Albums of the Year (2024)

Beedier selects one hundred choices from some of the best albums of the year - each track selected with the (loose) theme of urbanism and architecture, from mainstream, and mostly left-field artists across multiple genres >

Classical Christmas (1900-2020)

Beedier offers a selection of 20th and 21st Century romantic, modernist and contemporary classical pieces inspired by the season of winter - Christmas, Epiphany, Yule, Hannukah and other festivals >

Winter Bangs (2024)

Beedier takes seasonal stock of the best electronic dance music from the past six months - techno, house, bass and fusion to get you through the icy months ahead. The cold walk to the studio may be more tolerable with this playing in your ears, and a bounce in your step >

Neo-Soul (1994-2005)

Music from the decade of R&B when the hip-hop driven New Jack Swing sound gave way to smoother retro production that harked back to classic 70s Soul and romantic 80s Quiet Storm. From D'Angelo, through Faith, Maxwell, Meshell, Erykah, Rahsaan, Alicia, Indie, Amy to Jill Scott >

RoMinimal Techno (2015-24)

Beedier continues is exploration and representation of place based subgenres. Over the past decade, Romanian producers and DJs guided the club scene in Bucharest towards a cool minimal techno sound, sometimes also referred to as microhouse >

Garage Rock Revival (1996-2005)

Beedier enjoyed Jack White's album this year "No Name", a return to raw rhythm and blues rock roots - so we took a look back at the original Garage revival scene that generated so much great rock music across the millennium >

Dub Reggae (1973-79)

Beedier assembles the influential sounds of Jamaican producers in the Seventies, heavily layered dub reggae that laid the groundwork for studio mixing, and electronic production in other dance genres >

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Architectural Playlists

Curated architectural playlists for design inspiration