Mixtape Collective

Playlists made like mixtapes. Sequenced to be played front to back, so maybe leave shuffle off for this one.

19 tapes on the shelf

Abrasive Math Rock

Not the pretty kind. This is math rock with rough edges and bad intentions. Don Caballero, Hella, You Slut!, Battles, and friends making uncomfortable music

LITE · Battles · Don Caballero · You Slut!

+ 19 more artists

Animals As Leaders · Adebisi Shank · Angine de Poitrine · Hella · The Physics House Band · Alpha Male Tea Party · Three Trapped Tigers · Zazen Boys · Ogre You Asshole · Polvo · Vojdi · Chavez · Tera Melos · Shellac · Oxes · Cheval De Frise · Wild Yams · About Tess · Giraffes? Giraffes!

Celestial Chaos

Kobaïan choirs, marching bass and chamber rock from the dark side. Best of Zeuhl and RIO through the ages, from Magma and Koenjihyakkei to newer gems.

Magma · Koenjihyakkei · Univers Zero · Weidorje · Shub-Niggurath · Ruins · Vojdi

+ 10 more artists

Art Zoyd · Dun · Eskaton · Zao · zopp · BUBU · Corima · Emiliasooo · Bondage Fruit · Universal Totem Orchestra

College Noise Rock

Late-night college radio that cared about sequencing. Blown-out amps, weird tunings, the good kind of abrasive.

Sonic Youth · Pixies · Pavement · Dinosaur Jr.

+ 18 more artists

Built To Spill · Hüsker Dü · The Breeders · Archers Of Loaf · Superchunk · Mission Of Burma · Chavez · Modest Mouse · Guided By Voices · Polvo · Drive Like Jehu · The Jesus Lizard · Unwound · Come · Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 · Sebadoh · Shellac · Slint

Dark Mode Drift

Cinematic and atmospheric dark ambient drift. Starts with Blade Runner, ends somewhere darker. Even electric sheep need sleep.

Atrium Carceri · Android Lust · Lanark Artefax · Nelson Crumble · Access to Arasaka

+ 23 more artists

Vangelis · Loscil · Philip Glass · Coil · Virgin Prunes · Nurse With Wound · Void Stasis · Biosphere · Gazelle Twin · Dead Melodies · Roto Visage · Craven Faults · My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult · Morphing Reality · Bad Sector · Subverge · Frederik Meyer · Beyond the Moving Lights · Innesti · Deaf Center · The Threshold HouseBoys Choir · Aphex Twin · Jon Hopkins

Desert Psych Rituals

Essential tracks from desert psych rock. Hypnotic riffs, sun-bleached grooves, and stoner-leaning jams from scene pioneers and modern torchbearers.

Kyuss · Colour Haze · Earthless · Queens of the Stone Age

+ 24 more artists

Brant Bjork · Yawning Man · Fu Manchu · 35007 · Truckfighters · Jellephant · Samsara Blues Experiment · Nebula · Brant Bjork And The Low Desert Punk Band · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · My Sleeping Karma · Hawkwind · Monster Magnet · Wooden Shjips · King Buffalo · SLIFT · Somali Yacht Club · Sleep · Electric Wizard · Elder · Dozer · All Them Witches · Causa Sui · The Re-Stoned

Emotive Math Rock

A focused math rock playlist leaning into the emo/bubbly side of the genre. Clean guitars, odd rhythms, soft feelings. Less flex, more heart.

Toe · Chon · Jizue · American Football · Pretend · Totorro · Clever Girl · Parachute Day

+ 21 more artists

TTNG · Uchu Conbini · Elephant Gym · paranoid void · Piglet · Tangled Hair · Chinese Football · a picture of her · Mouse On The Keys · Delta Sleep · Standards · Monobody · Covet · Immortal Onion · Tom's Story · Marquette · Maps & Atlases · Floral · Faraquet · Catholics · Algernon Cadwallader

Grip Tape & Bruises

Punk rock and skate punk classics, deep cuts, early influences and modern bands keeping it alive. Not a Tony Hawk playlist, but some THPS classics had to be in.

Dead Kennedys · Black Flag · Bad Religion · Minor Threat

+ 30 more artists

The Offspring · Pennywise · Millencolin · Suicidal Tendencies · Agent Orange · Rancid · Circle Jerks · Descendents · Adolescents · NOFX · Lagwagon · Face To Face · Pulley · Strung Out · Swingin' Utters · Pegboy · 7Seconds · Turnstile · Freeze The Atlantic · The Clash · Satanic Surfers · Ramones · A Wilhelm Scream · Goldfinger · Fugazi · Sex Pistols · OFF! · Amyl and The Sniffers · IDLES · Agnostic Front

Math Metal Anxiety

Essential math-leaning metal: polyrhythms, mechanical tension, and riffs that refuse to resolve. Built for counting, miscounting, and spiraling focus.

Meshuggah · The Dillinger Escape Plan · Car Bomb · SikTh

+ 21 more artists

Gojira · Between The Buried And Me · The Ocean · Ulcerate · Sleep Token · Textures · Animals As Leaders · Humanity's Last Breath · Vildhjarta · The Contortionist · Frontierer · Voivod · Godflesh · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · Spiritbox · Loathe · Chat Pile · Tallah · The Callous Daoboys · Mastodon · Death

Microtonal Madness

Notes between the notes. A hypnotic psych rock journey built around microtonal tuning systems. King Gizzard, Angine de Poitrine, Mdou Moctar and more.

King Gizzard · Angine de Poitrine · Altın Gün

+ 17 more artists

Mdou Moctar · Water From Your Eyes · Compro Oro · Taxi Kebab · Horse Lords · Echoes of Zoo · Brendan Byrnes · God of Shamisen · Secret Chiefs 3 · Population II · The Mercury Tree · Outta Sight Outta Mind · Disoriented Ghost · Feeding Fingers · Consider the Source · Ko Shin Moon · Ventifacts

Millennium Bug

Wallet chains, frosted tips and the world ending at midnight. It didn't, so here's Hybrid Theory again. Features Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit.

Korn · Slipknot · Linkin Park · Deftones · System of a Down

+ 15 more artists

Papa Roach · Disturbed · Mudvayne · Limp Bizkit · Static-X · Drowning Pool · P.O.D · Guano Apes · Spineshank · American Head Charge · Kittie · Ill Niño · Soulfly · Adema · Soil

Neo-Psych Chill

Hazy psych, lazy grooves, wobbly tape. Made for late afternoons and long drives where nobody’s in a hurry.

DOOM GONG · Tame Impala · Mild High Club · Khruangbin · Unknown Mortal Orchestra · The Mysterons · King Gizzard

+ 14 more artists

Allah-Las · Pond · Temples · Men I Trust · Homeshake · Drugdealer · The Claypool Lennon Delirium · Broadcast · Kikagaku Moyo · Melody's Echo Chamber · Sunwatchers · Steve Gunn · Hand Habits · Weyes Blood

Nieuw Nederlands Punk

Keiharde punk tracks from the Netherlands, from the last decade or so. Political hardcore, garage chaos, post-punk edges. Geen compassie godverdomme.

Hang Youth · Iguana Death Cult · Ploegendienst · Crustenunie · Wasted Youth Club

+ 24 more artists

Asbest Boys · STRESSSYSTEEM · Avondcock · Hard Voor Weinig · Sjek · Punitive Damage · Tramhaus · Skroetbalg · Gijsjaradijsja · Paracetamøl · Slope · Charlie & the Lesbians · Forbidden Wizards · Weak Ties · Savage Beat · Half Cab · flut. · Canshaker Pi · Personal Trainer · The Covids · Cutters · Inbranders · Bitchkrieg · PIZZA KNIFE

Occult Office Musick

Dark ambient, ritual electronics and occult drift. A post industrial playlist inspired by Coil's Musick to play in the Dark.

Coil · Throbbing Gristle · Muslimgauze · Lustmord · Nurse With Wound · Dead Can Dance

+ 17 more artists

Cosey Fanni Tutti · Aphex Twin · Bad Sector · Nelson Crumble · Pye Corner Audio · Boards Of Canada · William Basinski · Tomaga · Actress · black tape for a blue girl · Atrium Carceri · Ulver · Raime · pocketbudgies · The Haxan Cloak · raison d'être · Demdike Stare

Progressive Metal for Overthinkers

Essential prog metal for restless minds. Long builds, emotional weight, and riffs that reward close listening. Heavy without chaos, complex without noise.

Opeth · Haken · Mastodon · Dream Theater

+ 21 more artists

TOOL · Symphony X · Riverside · Porcupine Tree · Pain Of Salvation · Liquid Tension Experiment · Karnivool · Soen · Katatonia · Wheel · OSI · Devin Townsend · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · Caligula's Horse · Pure Reason Revolution · Agent Fresco · TesseracT · Intronaut · Vola · Leprous · Skyharbor

Psy-Groove Sessions

Psychedelic music with a pulse. Deep dub bass, hypnotic grooves and a rhythmic backbone that pulls you under.

Grouch · Sumiruna · Gumnut · Ott · Desert Dwellers

+ 19 more artists

Hedflux · Kaya Project · Shpongle · Entheogenic · Shaman's Dream · Unusual Cosmic Process · Aes Dana · Vibrasphere · Kalya Scintilla · Younger Brother · Phutureprimitive · Side Liner · Hallucinogen · Eat Static · Zymosis · BCUC · Loud · Flooting Grooves · Banco De Gaia

Rage Against Authority

Fuck authority, fuck ICE, fuck whatever the hell is going on in the world right now. This is a playlist for the angry. Rise up!

Slayer · Ministry · Rage Against the Machine · Refused · Suicidal Tendencies

+ 30 more artists

OTEP · Sepultura · Sacred Reich · System of A Down · Lard · Discharge · KMFDM · Doom · Disfear · Aus Rotten · Anti Cimex · Wolfbrigade · M.D.C. · Napalm Death · Black Flag · Cro-mags · Agnostic Front · Madball · Biohazard · Pennywise · Terror · Trapped Under Ice · Incendiary · Stray From The Path · Stick To Your Guns · Nails · Anaal Nathrakh · Bolt Thrower · Godflesh · Swans

Smells Like Grunge

Grunge before the radio cleaned it up. Seattle and its orbit, mid 80s to spring 94. The big ones up front, then down into the fuzz, sludge and feedback.

Nirvana · Mudhoney · Soundgarden · Melvins · Tad · Screaming Trees

+ 12 more artists

Pearl Jam · Alice In Chains · L7 · Dinosaur Jr. · Temple Of The Dog · Mother Love Bone · Seaweed · Love Battery · Green River · U-Men · Babes In Toyland · 7 Year Bitch

Third Eye, Half Closed

Psybient and psychill for lying very still. Slow bass, wandering melodies, eyes optional. Shpongle, Ott, Desert Dwellers and more.

Ott · Desert Dwellers · Globular

+ 20 more artists

Grouch · Younger Brother · Shpongle · CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS · Kalya Scintilla · BLUETECH · Solar Fields · Buddha Bass · Aes Dana · H.U.V.A. NETWORK · Androcell · Zero Cult · Scann-Tec · Abakus · Tripswitch · Vibrasphere · Kick Bong · Global Communication · Sumiruna · MantisMash

Two Minutes Hate

80s hardcore, nothing much over two minutes. DC, LA, NYC and the UK, from Black Flag to Siege. 30 tracks, 47 minutes, no time to get bored.

Black Flag · Minor Threat · Bad Brains · Dead Kennedys · Discharge

+ 23 more artists

Circle Jerks · Descendents · Fear · The Exploited · D.O.A. · 7Seconds · Bad Religion · T.S.O.L. · Subhumans · Minutemen · Hüsker Dü · Die Kreuzen · Negative Approach · Crucifix · Poison Idea · M.D.C. · Agnostic Front · Cro-mags · Gang Green · D.R.I. · Necros · Siege · Dag Nasty