Fresh tracks with acoustic & organic instrumentation. Also check out the Playlists Guitar Solo, Folk, and Farming & Gardening.
Cool Songs and Tracks from the modern alt rock world. More good stuff in the Brit Pop and Indie Rock Playlists.
More provocative than our Jazz Playlist, more arthouse than our Quirky Playlist.
Late 70s / early 80s was the highpoint of the Disco wave, characterized in Saturday Night Fever with its own fashion and hairstyles. Here’s DNAs contribution to the mirror ball.
D&B, DnB or D’n’B is a genre and branch of electronic music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 160–180 bpm with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, sampled sources, and synths. It emerged from rave and jungle scenes in the United Kingdom during the early 1990s.
Dub started in the late 60s and early 70s in Jamaica, morphed from Reggae, and has found a spot in modern electronic music. Also listen to our Reggae & Ska Playlist.
Dubstep is a genre of EDM that originated in South London in the late 1990s. Characterized by sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns with prominent sub-bass frequencies. The style emerged as an offshoot of UK garage, drawing on a lineage of related styles such as 2-step and dub reggae, as well as jungle, broken beat, and grime.
Going up? Here’s a Playlist for an extended elevator ride or shopping spree. A little more retro than our Happy Playlist, it overflows with flugelhorn kitsch and will definitely put a smile on your face.
Electronic Dance Music for the clubgoers and ravers. You might also like our Modern Electronica, DNB, Dubstep, Electro, House, or Techno & Trance Playlists.
A variation of Electronic Dance Music, Electro has a signature, rhythmic sound, a syncopated funk style, which you can also find in our EDM and Modern Electronica, DNB, House and Dubstep playlists.
Storytelling acoustic tracks, unplugged and homemade. Check out our Traditional playlist.
Sing out loud, sing out proud! Can you see the light? For more spirituals check out our Religion Playlist.
Solo guitar in all its variations: classic, folk, C&W, blues, ragtime, fingerpicking, strumming, acoustic & electric, slide, steel string, dobro, bottleneck, harmonics … lots more in our Acoustic & Organic Playlist.
Hard, Harder, Hardest — these aggressive tracks will get everyone’s attention! Also check out our Grunge and Heavy Metal Playlists.
These Heavy Metal tracks are ready for hardcore promos with a lot of action and aggression. Take a listen to our Trailer – Rock Hybrid for more over-the-top riffs.
House music is a genre of EDM created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s. Early house music was generally characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms provided by drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals, and synthesized basslines.
Cool Songs and Tracks from the modern indie rock world. More good stuff in the Brit Pop & Alternative Rock Playlists.
For all you cool cats, here you’ll find some Smoky Jazz, Acid Jazz, Urban Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Kansas City Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Bebop, Cool Jazz, and Smooth Jazz. Also check out our Avant Garde Playlist, as well as our Gypsy Playlist.
Oy Vey! Lotsa Oboe and Matza Balls for everybody. Also check out our Religion Playlist. Mazel Tov!
A little spacier than our Chill Playlist, here’s some great tracks you wish you’d hear in a hotel lobby or airport, maybe a bit too spacey for longer road trips…maybe not…but if you’re on the Autobahn you’ll need our Retro German Electronica Playlist!
DNA is proud to offer some of the most eclectic and modern electronica you can dance or at least nod your head to. You might also like our Retro German Electronica Playlist. For the dance crowd check out the Techno & Trance, Dubstep, House or EDM Playlists.
String quartets and modern chamber music add style and class to any production. Exciting tracks for industrial videos, minimalistic pieces for arthouse, modern classic for highbrow documentaries. The wierder compositions landed in our Avant Garde Playlist.
We’ve got an amazing collection of works in which the piano plays the lead role, encompassing all musical styles, and creating every direction of stirred emotions for the screen. There’s more in the Boogie Woogie and Ragtime Playlists.
Pop songs and chartbreakers from all over the world (we’ve thrown in some K-pop and J-pop, too) for the bubblegum crowd to dance the night away. Lots of melody and hooks. Don’t forget your fake ID.
Tripped-out 60s and 70s flower power psychedelia, tye-dies, and VW buses. Technicolor Zeitgeist. Make love, not war!
Anti-authoritarian, safety pins in the cheek, anarchy for the UK. Gotta love music with attitude.
A musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918, known for its syncopated or “ragged” rhythm and was used widely as a soundtrack for silent movies. Also check out our Boogie Woogie, Retro & Vintage, and Piano Playlists.
Jah Rastafari! I and I are in Jamaica. Reggae’s cousin Dub has its own Playlist, as do Carribean and Cuba for more island sounds.
The Krauts were on the forefront of the electronic music wave. Good ear candy for high speed autobahn rides or late night head-nodding. Our Playlist Modern Electronica DNB & House brings the genre into the 21st century.
Groovy Rhythm ‘n’ Blues songs with soulful vocals, street-smart and sexy. More in our Soul Playlist!
A wide range of rock tracks, from classic rock to biker rock, southern rock, and glam / spandex rock. Did we forget big hair rock? It’s here, too. And check out the killer tracks in our Alt Rock, Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Grunge Playlists.
One of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 50s in the US, blending the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues, leading to what is considered “classic” rock and roll.
Funky and sexy songs and underscores, with a little more silk and satin than the RNB Playlist.
Hang ten with the vintage sounds of the California surf music scene, a genre with more movie credits than beach and sun on Highway 1.
Percolating drum machines and synth pads hooks are behind this amazing selection of retro-tinged electropop songs and underscores. Eurotrash at its best.
Trance is a genre of electronic music that emerged from the British new-age and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes. At the same time trance music was developing in Europe, the genre was also gathering a following in the Indian state of Goa. DNA has some of the best psytrance composers on our roster. Be prepared for intense, euphoric-ecstasy hands-in-the-air Goan beach party music.
A collection of folk songs and ballads, shantys, jigs, and dances around the maypole. Our Folk Playlist has a few more.
Trap is a style of Southern hip hop that was developed in the late 1990s / early 2000s. It is typified by double or triple-time sub-divided hi-hats, heavy, sub-bass layered kick drums from the Roland TR-808 drum machine, layered synthesizers and an overall dark, ominous or bleak atmosphere and lyrical content. The term “trap” referred to places where drug deals take place. In the 2010s, artists crossbred trap with dubstep to create trap EDM.
An ethnic melting pot of instrumentation and fusion of global musical styles. Listen to our World Travel Playlist for more specific ethnomusical regions and authentic indiginous instruments.