IREC: Playlist

The essence of my music tastes can be boiled down to two categories: electronic, and “anything-playing-in-the-background-of-a-YouTube-video”. There are, of course, exceptions to this.

The links here are of digital downloads, physical stores, or streaming links, prioritising official uploads where possible.

Need a quick streaming list? Check out the YouTube playlist¹ – shuffle recommended.

Recent additions

• Zenith – Zynera (2026)
• Windows96 – Cult Programming Dove Girls (availax Remix) (2025)
• Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere (Psychemagic Remix) (2022)
• Dakooters – Synthesia (2020)
• Verified Picasso – Tea for Tat (2019)
• Moby – Porcelain (1999)
• Praise – Only You (Remix) (1992)
• Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (1985)
• Fleetwood Mac – Albatross (1968)

2026

• Zynera – Zenith

  • Available on: YouTube
• ouevre/AlenaVeremeeva – স্কাইব্লক

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Rough translation of title: “Skyblock”
• Raven – Together

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial)

2025

• Bygone Breaks – Ozone

  • Available on: YouTube
• Windows96 – Cult Programming Dove Girls (availax Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Windows96 – Awkward Dance Music

  • Available on: YouTube · Bandcamp
• Dusqk – Sanctuary OS

  • Available on: Bandcamp

2024

• Windows96 – Yes Da Da Da

  • Available on: YouTube · Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Sleeping Chambers, Apartments
• GeneractionXmusic – If you scratch my back I'll scratch yours

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Non dubium est de illo, Quo vadis?
• Windows96 – Dated New Aesthetic

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Takeaguess, Lightsleeper
• Solaris – song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar

  • Available on: YouTube
• ax14 – Synthetic Landscape

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube
• こっちのけんと / Kocchi no Kento – Hai Yorokonde

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Rough translation of title: “Of course, I’d be happy to”

2023

• AZALI – frostbearer's waltz

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube
• QB9 – THERE'S GIRLS AT THE MALL BUT I'M SHY AND BROKE

  • Available on: YouTube
• Webinar™ – w w w . d e e p d i v e . c o m

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube (unofficial)
• Energy 52 – Café Del Mar (deadmau5 Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Stevia Sphere – You're My Toy, Literally

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: The Bleep Bloops Mean I Love You, Soft Monkey

2022

• Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere (Psychemagic Remix)

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube (unofficial) · Discogs
• S O A R E R – 夕暮れに

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube (unofficial)
• Atlantis – Fiji (Eddie Murray Extended Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Jakey – ROMCOM

  • Available on: YouTube

2021

• 沙漠里的沙子晚上很温暖 – FLOOR—122

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube (unofficial)
  • Artist also known as ‘desert sand feels warm at night’
• Singapore Airlines – The Sound of Singapore Airlines

  • Available on: YouTube

2020

• Dakooters – Synthesia

  • Available on: YouTube · Bandcamp
• Gavriel – In the Worlde

  • Available on: YouTube · Bandcamp
• Props – Nostalgic Pink

  • Available on: Bandcamp
• System96 – Allure

  • Available on: YouTube
• Not the King – Bloom

  • Available on: YouTube
• Mang – Vivi's Meadow

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial) · Bandcamp

2019

• Verified Picasso – Tea for Tat

  • Available on: YouTube
• Patricia Taxxon – Wavetable

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Ordeal Day, Nothing is Lost
• Yotto – Turn It Around

  • Available on: YouTube
• System96 – Aperture

  • Available on: YouTube
• Spencer Brown & Qrion – Safeway Sushi

  • Available on: YouTube
• Pale Blue – Comes Home

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Honorable mention: the Pional remix.
• System96 – Proximity

  • Available on: YouTube
• yama_ko – EMOMOMO

  • Available on: YouTube
  • The music video is a masterpiece.

2018

• Verified Picasso – Asleep

  • Available on: YouTube
• Spencer Brown – Illusion of Perfection

  • Available on: Anjunabeats · YouTube
  • Top picks: I’ll Never, Nightwalk, J2, No Going Back
• kalaido – hanging lanterns

  • Available on: YouTube
• Windows96 – Caligula

  • Available on: YouTube

2017

• Windows96 – Gradient Horizont

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Youthful Waters, Earthbound
• Windows96 – Reflections

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • Top picks: Are you sad enough? Drive Slow, Sharpest Knives, Crystal Clear
• Bufi – El House Es Tu Idioma (Dave Dk Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Jakey – Medium

  • Available on: YouTube
  • I had this on repeat for a whole month at one point 💀

2016

• Zanzlanz – Vintage Powered

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube
  • Top picks: Everybody Growl, Car Horn, Vintage Powered, Trinketmonger
• Instupendo – Six Forty Seven

  • Available on: YouTube
• Shingo Nakamura – Sapporo

  • Available on: YouTube
• Shingo Nakamura – Whither (Shawn Mitiska Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Ben Murray-Smith – Exhale

  • Available on: YouTube

2015

• Shur-i-kan – My Love

  • Available on: YouTube
• Above & Beyond feat. Gemma Hayes – Counting Down The Days (Shur-i-kan Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Tom Middleton – HEVA

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Honorable mentions: the Two-Step and Ambient mixes, and the Vincenzo remix.
• Meramek – Know Me

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Honorable mentions: the Thomas Schwartz & Fausto Fanizza remix.
• Shingo Nakamura – Perception

  • Available on: YouTube

2014

• HOME – Come Back Down

  • Available on: YouTube
• Above & Beyond feat. Alex Vargas – Blue Sky Action (Meramek Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Justin OH & Jonny Rose – City Lights (Matt Fax Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Suspect 44 – The End (Robert Moon Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• EDU – Action Hero (Progressive Mix)

  • Available on: YouTube

2013

• Jake Chudnow – Shona

  • Available on: YouTube
• Patterns – Sunny Days (Fred Falke Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube

2012

• Lifeformed – Fastfall

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • OST for Dustforce (2012)
  • Top picks: Cider Time, Swimming While It Rains, Frozen Hot Sauce (☝️🧑‍⚕️)
• Suspect 44 – Neon Feel

  • Available on: YouTube
• Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere (True Identity & Phillip Young love the festivals Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – BomBom (feat. The Teaching)

  • Available on: YouTube

2011

• C418 – United Colors of Scrapyard

  • Available on: YouTube · Bandcamp
• Aphex Twin – Avril 14th (Santiago Niño Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial)
  • Contemporary classic turned into Frutiger Aero banger.
  • Exact release year unknown, using best guess from earliest known YouTube upload.
• Urbex – Hexophilia

  • Available on: Bandcamp
  • OST for Hexic HD (2005)
  • Top picks: Underlow, Slartisfgh
• ThinkOneMoreTime – Forest Reggae

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial) · SMW Central
• Alexandra Hampton – Distant Shore

  • Available on: YouTube
• Syrsa – Red Skies

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial)
• Kinderman – In Your Heart

  • Available on: YouTube
  • You might recognise this from a pretty old Skyrim meme.
• Michael Casette – Memories

  • Available on: YouTube

2009

• Miike Snow – Animal (Fred Falke Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• deadmau5 – Moar Ghosts N Stuff

  • Available on: YouTube
• Mr Scruff – Kalimba

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Arguably the best and most iconic of the Windows 7 sample music.
• Michael Casette – Summer (Dub Mix)

  • Available on: YouTube

2008

• Kevin MacLeod – Double O

  • Available on: Incompetech · YouTube
  • “hit the record button” 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

2007

• Waterflame – The Race Around the World

  • Available on: Bandcamp · YouTube · Newgrounds

2006

• Jake Chudnow – Going Down

  • Available on: YouTube
• Luminary – Amsterdam

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Honorable mentions: the Smith and Pledger, and Grum remixes.

2005

• Jeff Knowler – Sun Terrace

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial) · Discogs (album)
  • Part of Essential Underscores 3 (Smooth Beats).
• Luminary – My World

  • Available on: Discogs
  • Honorable mention: the Andy Moor remix.

2003

• Delerium – Just A Dream

  • Available on: YouTube
• Above & Beyond pres. OceanLab feat. Justine Suissa – Sky Falls Down

  • Available on: YouTube

2002

• Hideki Naganuma – Teknopathetic

  • Available on: YouTube
• Hideki Naganuma – The Concept of Love

  • Available on: YouTube
  • “UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND”
• Projections – Between Here And Now

  • Available on: Discogs
  • Top picks: Rival Cruise, Backbone (& Reprise), Luminate (& Part 2), The Nutcracker

2001

• David Lowe – BBC World: The Music

  • Available on: Discogs
• Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Honorable mention: the Blake remix.
• Röyksopp – Eple (Bjorn Torske Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Röyksopp – Eple

  • Available on: YouTube

2000

• Hideki Naganuma – Rock It On (D.S. Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
  • “BACK AT YA, HOMIE!” 😎
• speedometer. – PRIVATE

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Top picks: Nightboat from Alaska, Sky, Wake Up Afternoon, New Hawaii
• Atlantis vs. Avatar feat. Miriam Stockley – Fiji (Lange Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube

1999

• Moby – Porcelain

  • Available on: YouTube

1998

• falcon/pulse+tdr – spineless_

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial) · Mod Archive
• !Cube / Trauma – Ransumaasta Kajahtaa

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial)
  • Rough translation of title: “Echoes from Ransumaasta”(?)
• Massive Attack – Teardrop

  • Available on: YouTube

1997

• Paban Das Baul, Sam Mills – Dil Ki Doya Hoy Na

  • Available on: YouTube
  • Rough translation of title: “Do you have mercy in your heart?“
• Da Hool – Meet Her At The Loveparade (Nalin & Kane Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube

1996

• Quazar & Phandral / Sanxion – First Encounters

  • Available on: YouTube (unofficial)
• Intense – Only You

  • Available on: YouTube

1994

• Delerium – Flatlands

  • Available on: YouTube

1992

• Praise – Only You (Remix)

  • Available on: YouTube
• Intermix – Intermix

  • Available on: Discogs

1985

• Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill

  • Available on: YouTube

1968

• Fleetwood Mac – Albatross

  • Available on: YouTube

1959

• Dave Brubek Quartet – Take Five

  • Available on: YouTube

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