Global & online

Synthwave's neon turned blood-red, with metal-like bass and horror-film dread.

The background music of consumer society, slowed down into an empty mall.

1980s Japanese city pop, chopped and sped up over French house kicks and filters: vaporwave in the sun.

Slowed vocals, heavy reverb and occult symbols: the eeriest electronic music online around 2010.

Rolling sixteenth basslines and psychedelic effects, dancing in the forest till sunrise.

Bright synth chords swell in the drop like a colourful emotional firework.

Breakneck breakbeats shattered into shards, exploding alongside sad melodies and anime samples.

Every pop element turned up to max: candy tones, pitched voices and glitch noise screaming together.

Internet rap made by teenagers who met on Discord, with Auto-Tune, high-pitched vocals and sharp 808s.

High-BPM electronic music designed for fingers and eyes: dense notes, sudden tempo shifts, the harder the better.

Tape hiss, eerie samples and slow, hazy rap: dark hip-hop grown from '90s Memphis underground rap.

Distorted cowbell melodies, blown-out 808s and relentless drive: the go-to soundtrack for drift edits and gym montages.

Brazilian funk's bouncing drums meet phonk's cowbell: hypnotic Portuguese vocal chops, dark yet danceable.

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

Speed a song up, raise its pitch, add an anime picture: an online remix culture that grew out of a Norwegian school project.

Empty pools, corridors with no way out and warped old records: an internet aesthetic that turns childhood memory into a dream.

Clean tapped guitars, odd meters and precise stops, like solving a bright geometry problem.

Metalcore breakdowns collide with EDM synths and drops, made for jumping on a rainy rooftop.

Floating synth pads and lazy rap, like daydreaming on a pink cloud.

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

Modern pop led by synths: clean, cool-bright and a little futuristic.

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.

Jazz improvisation plus the electric force of rock and funk, complex yet grooving hard.

Puts human breath and machine pressure to work in the same story.

Lets the castle keep its former beauty while letting you hear what it's hiding.

The sound field of a high-tech, low-life world, not one fixed style.

Makes listeners start doubting the space instead of seeing the monster right away.

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

Lets music respond to what the player is doing while keeping its own narrative breath.

Songs written on old console sound chips: square, triangle and noise waves that take you straight back to childhood.

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.