Duke’s Best EDM Tracks of 2024

And so it came to pass that I finished up my annual Best of EDM [Insert Year Here] lists. I used to do these on Spotify before switching to Tidal, and I continued doing them on Tidal because I listen to an absurd amount of EDM and like keeping track of the tunes I love the most.

Below, you will find a Tidal playlist that should be public. You can listen to the first 50 tracks right here, but the full playlist is available on Tidal proper (which has a free version just like Spotify does). For whatever reason, the embedded playlist breaks the page, and so I’ve opted to link to it here and at the bottom of this post. Embeds are weird. Or you can pull songs into your preferred listening app. It’s up to you.

Some caveats before we begin:

• The list is mostly in the order at which I discovered a song. It is not a ranking. I think calling the songs on this list “the best in a broad genre” is a sufficient enough ranking anyway. Thus, they are not in any particularly meaningful order for you, the listener. If you’re one for spinning records, I’d be curious to see how you’d organize these for a live set!
• “Best” is, understandably, a subjective statement. I have particular tastes in music, and your tastes may or may not align with mine. I skew towards melodic EDM in a variety of genres, including trance, house, synthwave, techno, DnB, dubstep, psy/goa trance, and other random subgenres that fit my tastes. I also have a tendency to love the more progressive or “deep” variations of these genres. I imagine at least some of the tunes below will interest you if you’re an EDM fan, but this might also be an opportunity to try something new or give a subgenre another shot. I do from time to time!
• This list cannot possibly cover ALL of EDM. The title is simultaneously ambitious and, to any reasonable person, obviously incorrect. Just as there is not enough time in one’s life to read every science fiction book released in a given year, one cannot listen to every EDM album even if you only picked one genre. There’s too much stuff and too little time. I’ve listened to literally thousands of songs in 2024, but even that is not sufficient to cover the genres I most listen to… So if I missed something, tell me!
• This list is likely to change throughout 2025. Since I listen to a wide range of EDM podcasts, songs from 2024 will continue to to appear in my listening for at least 3-4 months. If I find a song that I like and it was released in 2024, it’ll end up in this playlist. Do with that knowledge what you will.

OK, let’s get to it. Enjoy!

Here is the playlist for you to listen to. I’ve also included the list of tracks below!

The Playlist:

1. “Vitality” / Matt Dylan
2. “Nomad” / CEAUS, Andy’s Echo
3. “This Moment / Wilkinson, Kelli-Leigh
4. “Alchemy” / Deagon, MØØNE
5. “Starfield” / Protoculture
6. “What It Is” / JLV
7. “STOP ME” / Angelo Maria Calderano
8. “3 Sense (Hoax BE Remix) / Eran Hersh, Anorre, The NGHBRS
9. “Midnight” / MECA, Antdot, Y&M
10. “This Feeling (Sean Tyas Remix)” / Laura Van Dam
11. “Oceans” / BOXER, RYTERBAND
12. “All For You” / Dombresky, Jaded
13. “Reminiscing” / Imanu, Indi
14. “Like A Ghost” / Davee (ES), SUN3
15. “Butterfly Effect” / Karlo Wanny, S.one
16. “Delete Time” / Sevenn, Space Motion
17. “Losing Game” / Durante, Sohn
18. “So In Love” / GVN
19. “Lose Your Love” / Nico de Andrea, Rony Seikaly
20. “Finish My Life” / 7 Skies, Antheros
21. “Love Hurt Repeat (feat. Mae Muller)(RetroVision Remix)” / Alle Farben, Lewis Thompson, Mae Muller
22. “Finally Here” / Nihil Young, Jordan Arts
23. “Captain Future” / MRPHLNDR
24. “A State of Trance ID #001 (ASOT 1177)” / MRPHLNDR
25. “House (Solomun Remix)” / London Grammar
26. “Infinity” / Space Motion, REVOL(ofc)
27. “Flaws” / Les Amazones d’Afrique, Mamani Keita, Fafe Ruffino
28. “Start the Fire” / Nico de Andrea, Eli & Fur
29. “Draw Energy” / Nero
30. “Y-Salem (Invisible Reality Remix)” / Astral Projection
31. “Nothing Ever Changes” / Vintage Culture, Magnus
32. “Come Come” / Vintage Culture, Tube & Berger, Kyle Pearce
33. “Breathe” / Kasablanca
34. “JOI” / Magnus
35. “JOI (Part II)” / Magnus
36. “Formentera” / Movement Machina, MK8
37. “Stand Up” / MJ Cole, K-LONE
38. “PATT (Party All the Time)(Adam Beyer, Layton Giordani, & Green Velvet Remix)” / Sharam
39. “Flying in a Nightmare” / VisionV, Nosi, Chris Howard
40. “Soma (Dominik Gehringer Remix)” / Return of the Jaded
41. “Sarabande” / Armin van Buuren, Vini Vici, Anna Timofei
42. “Forget” / Yotto, AVIRA, ALSO ASTIR
43. “Highest Love” / Sultan & Shepard, Lanks
44. “Spiritum” / Vini Vici, Maddix, SHIBUI
45. “Rave is Life” / Freaks & Geeks
46. “Migrations” / Protoculture
47. “Do You Remember” / Going Deeper, PLUS2, Julia Temos
48. “Lost in Space (Going Deeper Remix)” / Alexander Popov, Fedo, Going Deeper
49. “Sacrifice” / Going Deeper, Lvne, Mila Falls
50. “Comfort In Chaos” / John Summit
51. “Tears” / John Summit, Paige Cavell
52. “Where You Are” / John Summit, HAYLA
53. “Go Back” / John Summit, Sub Focus, Julia Church
54. “Skyline” / Sleepless-Nights, MicroMatscenes
55. “Voyage (Forty Cats Remix)” / The Wash
56. “The Unknown (Theme)” / Nero
57. “Out of Time” / ZEDD, Bea Miller
58. “Quezacotl” / deadmau5
59. “Summertime Blues” / Chris Lake, Sammy Virji, Nathan Nicholson
60. “Dola re Dola” / Meduza, Varun Jain
61. “Perfect (Exceeder)” / David Guetta, MASON, Princess Superstar
62. “Atonement (Live)” / Serkan Emre Çiftçi, CEAUS
63. “Devoid (Live)” / Serkan Emre Çiftçi, CEAUS
64. “Luminous” / Heard Right, CEAUS
65. “Nova” / Heard Right, CEAUS
66. “Guide Me Home” / Laura Van Dam
67. “This Feeling (Sean Tyas Extended Remix)” by Laura Van Dam
68. “Fire” / Imanu, Grabbitz
69. “Zeta” / Karlo Wanny
70. “Lose Your Love” / Nico de Andrea, Rony Seikaly
71. “Alone Again” / Nihil Young
72. “Just Breathe” / Ferry Corsten
73. “Wildfire” / Hel:sløwed, Amber Revival
74. “Captain Future (Extended Mix)” / MRPHLNDR
75. “Nothing Every Changes (Agents of Time Remix)” / Vintage Culture, Magnus, Agents of Time
76. “Leave You There” / Giuseppe Ottaviani, Lasada
77. “Tangerine Rays” / ZEDD, Ellis, Bea Miller
78. “Eternity” / The Ambientalist
79. “It’s over Now” / Calippo
80. “The Unknown” / Wouter Achterberg
81. “Mediterraneo (Gai Barone Remix)” / Daniel Curotto
82. “Ghost Kiss” / Adam Beyer
83. “The Summit” / Braxton
84. “Rave” / MRPHLNDR

Enjoy!