Warm & intimate

Like a sun-faded old videotape, blurry, warm and a little wistful.

Gentle, calm, flowing instrumentals for breathing, meditation and healing.

Electronic music slowed down: warm grooves, jazzy chords and sea breeze, made for sunset.

A steady four-on-the-floor keeps different people in the same room.

Slower, warmer and deeper than house: thick bass, jazzy chords and half-heard vocals, a late-night rooftop dance floor.

Swinging, syncopated 2-step beats and slick R&B vocals, the stylish groove of a London weekend night.

The song that rises softly as an episode ends: piano, strings and a gentle voice leaving the afterglow to you.

Group unison, sparkling arrangements and gaps left for the crowd's chants, songs written for cheering.

Future bass's soft chords plus bells, toy sounds and cute vocals, like a trampoline in candy clouds.

Electric piano, harmonies and gentle guitar: '70s coastal-highway rock, smooth enough to play on a yacht.

The sound of a guitar band with the melody of a pop song: singable choruses and moderate energy, the most common kind of band pop.

Keeps a song's intimacy while making reality feel as touchable as a dream.

Starting from small stages, personal songwriting and peer networks, it gives a city many sounds that aren't uniformly packaged.

Turns jazz timbres, harmony and memories of low end into a rhythmic space where the conversation can go on.

Lazy funk bass and whistling high synths, cruising a sunny boulevard in a lowrider.

In imperfect textures, it leaves a little liveable warmth for everyday life.

Church fire carried into the street, one voice singing a whole community's dignity.

Choir, organ and handclaps singing faith into joy that shakes the whole church.

Vintage soul warmth plus loose hip-hop grooves and jazz chords.

Four or five singers around one microphone: the bass sings "bom bom", the lead takes the tune, sweet '50s street-corner harmony.

Silky vocals over spacious beats, magnifying the small feelings inside intimacy.

Gentle, slightly bookish pop, like a spring afternoon in a small-town record shop.

Private love songs recorded with a laptop and cheap keyboard in a bedroom, soft and fuzzy.

A love song that unfolds slowly and erupts at the end, singing one line until everyone cries.

Piano, strings and gentle orchestral arrangement: clear, pretty melodies that never get loud, the light music of cafes and malls.

Turns private feelings into everyday songs that many people can sing.

Melodies shaped by nine tones, singing joys and sorrows under Hong Kong's neon.

Hokkien's soft tones, nakasi and enka-like singing, songs of harbours, leaving home and human warmth.

French pop, bossa nova and '60s soft rock cut and pasted into a stylish Tokyo sound.

A piano opening, strings underneath and an explosive belt in the last chorus: Korean love songs that sing heartbreak at full strength.

An oom-pah two-beat and vibrato-laden singing, Korea's most nostalgic yet festive popular song.

Bright, round, crisply enunciated high notes between folk song and bel canto: the most familiar Chinese sound of gala stages.

Horsehead fiddle, long song and northwest high singing, songs for vast grasslands and the loess plateau.

Acoustic guitar "la pompe" strumming and violin, a lively Paris café night.

Within shared harmony and groove, everyone gets to say their own piece in the moment.

Candlelight, a piano trio and one singer: jazz standards sung lazy, sultry and unhurried.

Jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop samples dancing together in a London basement.

Soft sax, round grooves and smooth harmony, background music for city twilight.

Cocktails, velvet sofas and piano trio, relaxed with a hint of retro space-age.

Samba's heartbeat turned down low, like someone whispering to you by the sea.

Hardship sung into twelve bars, giving sorrow a shape you can sway to together.

Blues plugged in: crying string bends and wailing harmonica, a small Chicago bar on a winter night.

One acoustic guitar and one story, bringing song back to between people.

Cabins, autumn woods and acoustic guitars, gentle harmonies singing solitude and nature.

One guitar singing of cities, youth and faraway places, making ordinary days worth a song.

Fiddle, tin whistle and bodhrán, dancing jigs in a stone pub on a misty coast.

Pickup trucks, highways and small-town heartbreak, sung in the plainest melodies.

Country storytelling and acoustic guitar wrapped in pop hooks and shiny production.

Three-finger banjo rolls, mandolin and fiddle taking fast turns, joy on an Appalachian porch.

A mix of country, folk, blues and gospel, like a traveller's song by a desert gas station.

Horns, piano montuno and clave rhythm set the whole dance floor spinning.

Accordion and guacharaca's two-step shuffle, the riverside town dance that's slow yet impossible to stop.

The rolling rhythm of a full percussion corps, the heartbeat of the carnival parade.

Guitar, accordion and two-part harmony singing about heartbreak: Brazil's most-played national pop music.

Bright, trembling guitars and romantic voices, the Dominican love song danced close.

Accordion, brass and twelve-string guitar: from norteño and banda to today's corridos tumbados, Mexico's most local sound.

A light stroke on the offbeat, giving both protest and love a sunny ease.

Light percussion and warm melodies turn a party into an easy, rolling groove.

Log-drum bass, jazzy piano and laid-back house groove, a sunset rooftop party in Johannesburg.

House's four-on-the-floor with South African rhythms, melodies and vocals in African languages: dance music with a spiritual feel.

Balalaika and accordion getting faster and faster, clapping, stomping and squat-kicking: one song becomes a village party.

Oud, darbuka and ornamented singing with modern pop production, a desert city night.

Four string players in conversation: intimate, refined, like a cultured talk.

The surging passion of a large orchestra: storms, love and national epics.

Bel canto voices filling a whole theatre without mics, with orchestra telling of love, hate and fate.

A few repeating piano figures and a layer of strings are enough to make quiet feel deep.

Gives mountains, peoples and characters sonic memories that are recognisable and can change.

Makes every town and every farewell a place on the journey you can come back to.

Gives traditional timbres a place of origin, and gives the fused sound a life of its own.

Lets a song say what a character can't do yet, and hasn't admitted yet, right now.

Lets one melody gradually become a relationship through meeting, missing each other and reunion.

Characters drive the plot through song, orchestra and chorus pushing emotion to a showstopper.

Optimistic, clean, unobtrusive background music written for launches, promos and tutorials.

Simple melodies, repeated lyrics and gentle tones: songs for children and for bedtime quiet.