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instrumental

Last updated: Fri Oct 31 2025 02:55:14 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Instrumental music is music that is solely or primarily composed of musical instruments, without any vocals or lyrics. In other words, it's music that is performed using instruments rather than using the human voice as the primary instrument. It can encompass a wide variety of genres, including classical, jazz, electronic, rock, and more. Instrumental music can be used for various purposes, such as background music, meditation, relaxation, study, and performance. Some notable examples of instrumental music include classical symphonies, jazz improvisations, electronic ambient music, and rock guitar solos.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
4		1974	Hareton Salvanini	A Virgem de Saint Tropez (Trilha Sonora Original)	instrumental jazz fusion jazz-funk	jazz fusion # 66 jazz-funk # 90
34		1974-09-06	Herbie Hancock	Thrust	funk instrumental jazz fusion	jazz fusion # 59 fusion jazz # 72
17		1975-03	Jeff Beck	Blow by Blow	fusion	fusion # 100
18		1976	Penguin Cafe Orchestra	Music From The Penguin Cafe	instrumental	humour # 77
8		1989-09-01	Vangelis	Themes	instrumental soundtrack
82		1995	Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells	progressive rock instrumental	progressive rock # 74
6		1995-06-13	Yann Tiersen	La Valse Des Monstres	instrumental
95		1996	Apocalyptica	Plays Metallica By Four Cellos	instrumental symphonic metal metal	metal # 16 instrumental metal # 39 symphonic metal # 67
20		1997	Craig Armstrong	The Space Between Us	electronic instrumental ambient chillout
84		1998-03-24	Buckethead	Colma	instrumental ambient guitar virtuoso	guitar virtuoso # 99
33		1998-08-31	Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells III	instrumental progressive rock
68		1998-09-22	Apocalyptica	Inquisition Symphony	symphonic metal instrumental	symphonic metal # 83 instrumental metal # 84
76		2000-01-17	Explosions in the Sky	How Strange, Innocence		post-rock # 90
51		2000-10-10	Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet	Requiem for a Dream	instrumental
52		2000-10-10	Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet	Requiem For A Dream	instrumental
64		2001	Casiopea	MINT JAMS(Live)	city pop instrumental jazz fusion jazz-funk smooth jazz	jazz fusion # 84 city pop # 88 jazz-funk # 95 smooth jazz # 97
9		2001-08-27	Explosions in the Sky	Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever		post-rock # 65
38		2002	Kaki King	Everybody Loves You	instrumental acoustic
53		2002-10-08	Buckethead	Electric Tears	instrumental guitar virtuoso	guitar virtuoso # 92
94		2003-11-03	Explosions in the Sky	The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	post-rock	post-rock # 99
31		2004-03-28	Xavier Rudd	Solace	instrumental
80		2004-04-19	Ratatat	Ratatat	electronic instrumental
74		2004-06-22	The Album Leaf	In A Safe Place	post-rock	post-rock # 79
36		2004-10-05	Kaki King	Legs to Make Us Longer	instrumental
25		2005	This Will Destroy You	Young Mountain	post-rock	post-rock # 87
49		2005-03-01	John Petrucci	Suspended Animation	instrumental progressive metal guitar virtuoso	guitar virtuoso # 74
60		2005-05-23	Yann Tiersen	Les Retrouvailles	instrumental french	french # 18
40		2005-06-26	Pelican	The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw	post-rock instrumental post-metal	post-metal # 57
77		2005-11-11	Nujabes	Modal Soul	chillout hip-hop jazz rap	conscious hip hop # 44 deep house # 61 acid jazz # 69 instrumental hip-hop # 69 jazz rap # 94 chillout # 94 jazz hop # 97
98		2006-01-01	Nosaj Thing	Views/Octopus EP	idm instrumental	idm # 88
93		2006-02-17	Rodrigo y Gabriela	Rodrigo y Gabriela	acoustic instrumental flamenco	latin # 60 acoustic # 66 flamenco # 100
57		2006-05-16	Russian Circles	Enter	post-rock	post-metal # 34 post-rock # 67
22		2006-05	RJD2	Magnificent City Instrumentals	instrumental
11		2006-11-07	Amiina	Seoul	icelandic instrumental	icelandic # 89
5		2006-12-06	toe	New Sentimentality	electronic emo fusion instrumental japan japanese jazz math rock	math rock # 40 fusion # 80 japan # 83
41		2007	Jelonek	Jelonek	instrumental polish	polish # 56 instrumental metal # 85
54		2007-02-19	Explosions in the Sky	All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone	post-rock	post-rock # 94
35		2007-04	Balmorhea	Balmorhea	ambient instrumental	ambient # 8
46		2007-06-22	Beastie Boys	The Mix-Up	instrumental funk
43		2008-02-12	Balmorhea	Rivers Arms	piano post-rock ambient instrumental	piano # 67
55		2008-02-22	Earth	The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull	drone instrumental post-rock	drone # 96
44		2008-03-02	Nine Inch Nails	Ghosts I-IV	ambient instrumental industrial	industrial # 5 ambient # 11 ambient industrial # 55
70		2008-05-06	Russian Circles	Station	post-rock instrumental	instrumental rock # 4 post-metal # 45 post-rock # 64
13		2008-09-03	Detektivbyrån	Wermland	instrumental
24		2009	CHON	Chon	instrumental math rock progressive metal progressive rock	math rock # 56
62		2009	Various Artists	1 Am. Study Session	chillhop instrumental lo-fi	lo-fi # 23 chillhop # 100
19		2009	Various Artists	3 Am. Study Session	ambient instrumental
2		2009-04-20	65daysofstatic	Escape from New York	instrumental post-rock
59		2009-09-06	Rodrigo y Gabriela	11:11	instrumental	guitar virtuoso # 32 acoustic rock # 83
83		2010-09-17	Agnes Obel	Philharmonics	acoustic ambient instrumental	ambient # 1 classical # 15 acoustic # 69 dansk # 79 dream folk # 81
12		2010-10-25	Girl Unit	Wut	crunk instrumental	crunk # 91
26		2011-05-16	TOKiMONSTA	Creature Dreams	downtempo electronic electronica instrumental instrumental hip-hop	instrumental hip-hop # 81
27		2011-06-10	2cellos	2Cellos	instrumental	croatian # 98
79		2012-01-18	Message To Bears	Folding Leaves	instrumental
89		2013-03-11	Plini	Other Things	instrumental progressive rock	progressive rock # 31
71		2013-08-27	American Authors	American Authors	ambient instrumental
99		2014-03-18	Tycho	Awake	ambient electronic instrumental post-rock	downtempo # 27 post-rock # 77 ambient # 90
96		2014-04-13	Ten Walls	Walking With Elephants	electro instrumental	electro # 92
32		2014-04-29	Lindsey Stirling	Shatter Me	dubstep classical instrumental	dubstep # 61 classical # 69 classical crossover # 76
97		2014-05-31	Watermät	Bullit	instrumental
90		2014-06-23	Floating Points	King Bromeliad / Montparnasse	ambient house deep house future garage instrumental microhouse tech house	future garage # 7 deep house # 12 tech house # 98 microhouse # 98 ambient house # 99
21		2014-08-25	Mndsgn	Yawn Zen	electronic instrumental
30		2015-07-08	Mac DeMarco	Some Other Ones	instrumental
37		2015-09-20	Vanilla	Origin	ambient electronic funk instrumental japan jazz soul	japan # 89
1		2015-11-13	Goldmund	Sometimes	ambient contemporary classical instrumental neoclassical postclassical	postclassical # 11 contemporary classical # 53 neoclassical # 66
15		2016-02-06	Death Grips	Interview 2016	experimental techno idm instrumental techno	techno # 35 experimental techno # 100
28		2016-02-06	Death Grips	Fashion Week	instrumental
73		2016-10-08	TomppaBeats	Harbor	instrumental
86		2016-10-28	Ólafur Arnalds	Island Songs	contemporary classical iceland icelandic instrumental piano	piano # 79 contemporary classical # 88 icelandic # 95 iceland # 100
7		2016-11-18	TheFatRat	Jackpot	edm electronic future bass glitch hop instrumental	glitch hop # 24 edm # 34 future bass # 69
69		2016-12-23	JinSang	Life	hip-hop instrumental
47		2016-12	Alan Walker	Origins	house instrumental dance electronic
50		2017	Christopher Larkin	Hollow Knight (Original Soundtrack)	instrumental soundtrack
63		2017	Arcade Fire	Her (Original Score)	ambient instrumental soundtrack
48		2017-01-24	Moow	I can't tell you how much it hurts	chillwave downtempo instrumental trip-hop	chillwave # 76
100		2017-02-12	itssvd	Missing	instrumental
23		2017-04-07	Joep Beving	Prehension	contemporary classical instrumental piano	piano # 33 contemporary classical # 64
58		2018-03-23	The Fearless Flyers	The Fearless Flyers	funk funk rock instrumental	funk rock # 85
81		2018-04-06	Ólafur Arnalds	re:member	instrumental	contemporary classical # 28 icelandic # 71 iceland # 96
10		2018-10-12	Polyphia	New Levels New Devils	math rock progressive metal	progressive metal # 22 math rock # 92
42		2019-02-18	Tom Doolie	Land of Calm	instrumental lo-fi	lo-fi # 6
39		2019-04	Capcom Sound Team	Resident Evil 2 Original Soundtrack	electronic instrumental japan japanese lo-fi soundtrack	lo-fi # 3 japanese # 33 japan # 90
29		2019-06-11	sewerslvt	Drowning In The Sewer	atmospheric drum and bass instrumental	atmospheric drum and bass # 80
67		2019-09-05	Metronomy	Metronomy Forever	british idm instrumental synthpop	british # 23 idm # 42
16		2020-03-28	Nils Frahm	Empty	contemporary classical instrumental piano	piano # 27 contemporary classical # 58
87		2020-06-26	Gavin Luke	Drifting Among Strangers	ambient instrumental	ambient # 33
91		2020-11	Other Nothing	Not Songs	ambient instrumental	ambient # 54
56		2020-12-02	sewerslvt	Newlove	atmospheric drum and bass big beat ethereal instrumental progressive breaks sampling space ambient	ethereal # 70 sampling # 79 atmospheric drum and bass # 85 big beat # 92 space ambient # 100 progressive breaks # 100
72		2021-09-10	Ólafur Arnalds	Trance Frendz	iceland icelandic instrumental piano	piano # 71 icelandic # 90 iceland # 99
14		2022	No Spirit	Memories We Made	chillhop instrumental lo-fi	chillhop # 99
78		2023-01-20	Mac DeMarco	Five Easy Hot Dogs	instrumental
66		2023-03-17	Invent Animate	Heavener	instrumental progressive metalcore	progressive metalcore # 94
65		2023-05-02	flyingfish	isolation	indie rock instrumental shoegaze
75		2023-07-21	Ludwig Göransson	Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	instrumental
88		2023-08-24	BADBADNOTGOOD	The Chocolate Conquistadors (From Grand Theft Auto Online: The Cayo Perico Heist)	abstract hip hop funk instrumental jam band jazz fusion jazz rap neo-psychedelia	funk # 39 jazz rap # 71 neo-psychedelia # 71 jazz fusion # 94 abstract hip hop # 95 jam band # 100
45		2023-10-15	Ghost and Pals	Nothing Perfect	electronic instrumental
85		2024-03-05	Graham Kartna	An Obsession With Kit	bitpop chiptune glitch glitch pop instrumental sampling	sampling # 88 glitch # 94 glitch pop # 96 bitpop # 97 chiptune # 99
3			Somebody's Son	Humble Thoughts	instrumental lo-fi
61			Johannes Bornlöf	As the Years Go By	instrumental
92			Faye Webster	Underdressed at the Symphony	instrumental

Related genres

• ambient
• electronic
• jazz
• soundtrack
• rock
• piano
• post-rock
• classical
• acoustic
• pop