Moods: Cold

Spooky female vocals over southern-rap-influenced electronic music distinguish this playlist, with plenty of noise-pop, chiptune, and hip hop mixed in for good measure. It’s purple lipstick music to read Jezebel to.

Enjoy the low, thudding bass of chill dubstep, the perfect soundtrack for relaxing nights.

This brooding set of synth-pop features acts ranging from Tubeway Army to LCD Soundsystem.

A low-key, atmospheric, and contemplative indie playlist, ideal for meditating on the icy days of winter -- a season that's alternately bleak, biting, and invigorating.

Modern female songwriters inspired by the off-kilter vocal and sonic sensibilities of music maverick Kate Bush.

Keep up with the latest, hottest tracks rocking the world's hippest dance floors. Keep the night alive.

A sinister and rhythmic undercurrent hums through New York City nights; these underground techno, disco, and rock songs throb with the same nervous energy.

Hip hop was born in the Bronx, and even before it was played in the clubs, it was the soundtrack to a thousand block parties throughout the '80s and into the early '90s.

Electro/indie-pop from the last decade -- all backed by killer synth -- that's sure to get your toes tapping. Toto, we aren't in the '80s anymore.

Robots unite! This eclectic selection features songs about automatons, along with tracks that could have been constructed by them.

All of the DJ-friendly 12" releases from DFA Records, the taste-making NYC record label most responsible for reminding all the indie "rock kids" that dancing can be, you know, kinda fun.

These precision-mounted industrial tracks from the style's late 1980s/early '90s peak era set the scene for the industrial metal hybrid to follow.

This is the funky, abrasive, and distinctive sound of downtown NYC's various post-punk scenes of the late '70s and early '80s.

New wave, post-punk, synth pop, proto-goth, new romantic, mod and ska revival cuts from 1978-1984. No disco.

You may have dumped me, but I still have my Moog. Classic synth pop from the '80s to today, all detailing the down side to love.

Krautrock is the British label given to the crop of German bands to emerge in the late '60 - the first generation born into post-war Germany. What united these artist wasn't a singular style, but a shared frustration and willingness to experiment.

Trip-Hop began in the mid-1990s when England's hip hop and house scenes converged to create a unique hybrid of downtempo electronic music.

Get acquainted with a multitude of bass-heavy Brits. Explore over two decades' worth of UK dance music subgenres, from classic drum'n'bass to the recent emergence of dubstep.

Post-rock tracks ranging from the abstract (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) to the melodic (Stereolab) and everything in between.

What Les Paul was to the electric guitar, Robert Moog was to the synthesizer. Listen these trailblazing electronic tracks from the '60s to early-'80s, created primarily with the modular synthesizers he helped pioneer.

This hybrid genre formed in the '80s when artists from the hip hop and electronic dance music worlds (both burgeoning scenes at the time) began adopting each others' styles and use of primitive synthesizers.

The greatest 12-inch and club mixes from the 1980s' best new wave, synth-pop, dance and rock artists. Explore the '80s one foot at a time!

Explore the techno scene based in Germany's capital, a hotbed of electronic experimentation since the 1970s.

Cold, skittish electronica from witch house to post-dubstep with beautifully brooding synthpop sprinkled into the mix.

Looking for a chilled-out take on that brain-splitting, wobbly bass? Liquid dubstep combines ambient soundscapes with beautiful melodies and, of course, visceral bass lines.

Pop, dance and electronica from Scandinavia. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland represent!

Electro-industrial and electronic body music celebrates the darker side of the dance floor. Come on, feel the industrial noise.

Embracing all things melancholy, these post-punk acts unabashedly reveled in the morbid and the miserable. Return to the time before goth became just another uniform choice for aspiring teenage rebels.

The rise of digital audio in the '90s brought about a multitude of creative uses (and abuses) of the technology. Explore the original purveyors of the glitch aesthetic as well as some modern-day artists incorporating digital errors into their music.

Industrial metal is a harsh, metal-machine music combining the anger and fury of metal with industrial music's blistering speed and pounding beats. Bang your head, factory-style.

Have a listen to the sonic diversity of dance music's most popular new subgenre -- from the early pioneers on Hyperdub Records to some of today's higher energy offerings -- with no annoying vocals to distract you from your studies.