I do rally house/edm playlists during free use. More dance club music. Sometimes I like vapor wave because it fits my kink of being an object/very casual encounter, but I’m not sure everyone appreciates that vibe.

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    1. Lovage. They have one album: Music to Make Love to your Old Lady By. It’s a DJ with so e other musicians, perhaps most notably Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle fame. The lyrics can be a bit much sometimes, but they also have an instrumental version of the album. It’s just fantastic beats at the perfect tempo.

    2. Tempel. That’s spelled correctly- not “Temple”, but “Tempel”. They’re an instrumental metal band that just flows really well. No vocals (or lyrics) to worry about being distracting. Honestly a little bit boring for me to listen to isolation, but it’s great background music for when we went to go a bit harder and maybe get into a bit of bdsm.

    3. Neon Nox. A vaporware artist I came across and like a lot, mostly instrumental but not 100%.

    Those are when we want something specific. In general, I often just search Spotify for “Chillwave” and I’ve founda few of those playlists are particularly good. If we want to go a bit harder I’ve found “Dark Synthwave” to be pretty good too. Lo-Fi beats are good too.

    I’ve found these all have a few key pieces in common. First is minimal vocals. My 3 partners all struggle with ADHD to various extents and get distracted by vocals and lyrics easily, so I try to avoid that. Next is a good mid-range tempo. If we wanted to get really fancy maybe we could build a custom, order-dependent playlist that starts slow and then ramps up and down over time, but I’m lazy so I prefer to just turn on an album that I know is good or shuffle a playlist. Next is vibe: any Tenacious D fan knows that sometimes you fuck hard, but sometimes you fuck gently.

    Finally, the songs need to be similar enough that the transitions are not jarring, but different enough that the transitions can still be detected. This is a great way to loosely keep track of time without fumbling around with phone alarms. Stuff like “let’s keep this position for one more song and then switch” or “you aren’t allowed to cum until this song is over”. Sometimes it not even discussed- as I’m going down I’ll start at gentle, light touches and escalate every time the song changes.