Curated Sound
Playlists built on feel, not algorithm. Soul, jazz, hip hop, and the spaces in between. Updated continuously.
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FIRST LIGHT
Before it blows up. Emerging indie R&B and alt-soul from artists who are about to matter.
CHOCOLATE CITY
DC, Maryland, Virginia. Chuck Brown roots to Rico Nasty. The full DMV sound, certified.
KEYBOARD SHOOTER VOL. 9
The aux cord has no loyalty. Conducta to Three 6 Mafia. Genre as suggestion, not law.
Built on feel, not algorithm.
These playlists are curated by hand, updated continuously, and never generated from a recommendation engine. Each one has a lane and stays in it.
The Keyboard Shooter series tours American cities, one vol at a time. The standalone playlists each own a specific mood or era. Nothing lives here until it's earned its place.
The Game
West Coast rap as a lifestyle document. G-funk roots to California consciousness. Three volumes, three times of day.
The Feature
90s R&B and hip hop soul. The era when rap and R&B were inseparable and everything felt cinematic.
Latitude
Quiet storm and neo-soul for the transition hours. Golden hour and after midnight, nothing in between.
Static Hour
A night out told in chapters. Doors open to sunrise exit. UK bass, footwork, drum and bass, deep house.
DOORS OPEN
UK bass warms the room. Then a trap bomb drops.
SWEAT LEVEL CRITICAL
Peak hour. Jersey club, footwork, baile funk.
3AM BASEMENT
The crowd thinned. D&B, chaos, then something tender.
LOST SIGNAL
4AM. The static between frequencies.
SUNRISE EXIT
For the ones who stayed until the end.
LIGHTS UP
LAST TRAIN
Silk Hour
The emotional counterpart to Static Hour. Afrobeats, broken beat, nu-disco, deep house. The party that pulls instead of pushes.
SIDE ENTRANCE
Soft UK garage warms the room.
BODY TEMPERATURE
Afrobeats into nu-disco into deep house.
GLASS & ICE
Broken beat and jazz-funk into late-night deep house.
FREQUENCY DRIFT
Future beats, Afro house, gospel-adjacent soul.
VELVET HOUR
Classic soul into soft disco into gentle house.
SLOW BURN
GARDEN STATE
Keyboard Shooter
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OUT OF OFFICE
Mozzy, Shootergang Kony, Mike Sherm.
REPLY ALL
Griselda, Billy Woods, Bronx drill.
SLOW YOUR ROLL
Chopped and screwed. UGK to Maxo Kream.
READ RECEIPT
Three 6 lineage, Raider Klan, Xavier Wulf.
OUT OF POCKET
Cash Money era, Curren$y, bounce adjacent.
OUT OF RANGE
Bass music, Rick Ross, Denzel Curry.
OFFLINE
Gifted Gab, Sol, Porter Ray. Pacific Northwest.
Sankofa
The sound traveled. Highlife to Afrobeats, Lagos to London, Freetown to everywhere. Each vol finds a different node on the circuit.
FREETOWN
West African party DNA before the world caught up. SL, Nigeria, Ghana, Congo.
LAGOS
The Afrobeats golden era. Nigeria wrote the new sound.
ACCRA
Highlife roots, Afrobeats current wave. Black Sherif, Amaarae, KiDi.
NAIROBI
Gengetone, Afro-fusion, Swahili soul. East African rhythm.
LONDON
UK Black music. Dave, Little Simz, J Hus, Jorja Smith.
CONTINENTAL
Pan-African. Kinshasa, Lagos, Paris, Brussels. Fally Ipupa, Tems, Rema.
AMAPIANO
South Africa. Log drum only. Kabza De Small, Focalistic, Tyla.
Club Gaulois
The floor never stopped. Nu disco, French house, Italo, soulful house. Three rooms, one building.
Calor
Heat by degrees. Reggaeton, dancehall, soca, Afro-Latin. The temperature only goes one direction.
LLEGÓ LA NOCHE
The architects. The underground before it had a name.
UN VERANO
Bad Bunny era. Humid, percussion-heavy.
PERREO SUCIO
The floor drops. Raw perreo, latin trap, dancehall.
NOCHE DE SENTIMIENTOS
Latin trap melancholy, bachata bleeds in, soca arrives.
AMANECER CARIBEÑO
Road march soca, dancehall roots, Celia Cruz.
Folding Chairs
The cookout in three acts. Soul, old school R&B, funk. Gates open to last dance.
Standalones
One playlist, one mood. No series logic. Each one earns its own space.
THE OFFSET
Neo-soul, left-field hip hop, bedroom production.
SATURDAY GOSPEL
Classic soul, funk, rare groove. Saturday morning ritual.
CHOCOLATE CITY
DC, Maryland, Virginia. Go-go roots to Rico Nasty.
THE CRATE
Rare groove, deep soul, funk breaks. The ones producers flip.
SLOW DRIP
Lo-fi soul, instrumental R&B. Time moves different.
FIRST LIGHT
Indie R&B 2024-2026. Slightly left of center.
BAY TO LA
Underground West Coast. Two cities, one frequency.
STATIC & SILK
Clean taste, chaotic frequency. Black alt, neo-soul.
SATURDAY GOSPEL
Classic soul, funk, rare groove. The ritual.
SUNDAY BEST
Black gospel, worship, praise. 784 tracks deep.
HELLA
SF, Oakland, Vallejo, San Jose. Karri, H.E.R., En Vogue, Tony! Toni! Toné!
DARK WEB
Memphis to SoundCloud. $uicideboy$, ZillaKami, Duke Deuce, Project Pat.
TRIGGERMAN
Root to crown. Triggerman era through modern bounce.
STILL
City quiet, record on, lights low. The hour when nothing else matters.