I use a lot of licensed music from the usual suspects (Epidemic Sound, etc) for Youtube videos and you can filter by vocals/no-vocals. I've created my own playlists for personal listening off those services for this exact purpose. Wish I had a better suggestion/lead.

I listen to a lot of rekt.network. Occasionally there will be a vocal, but not many. Depends on the station.

https://rekt.network

Try https://www.di.fm/ , they have a ton of different genres that stream 24/7. However, I'm not sure if you have to pay nowadays to access all the channels.

Every day only a subset of them are unlocked for listening; you can also listen to the most recent episode of each recurring show. The Shoutcast-y playlists accessible by external players became pay-only quite a long while ago.

I would love this same exact thing. I have not found any source that doesn't have vocals. I produce on the side as a hobby and one of my goal albums is to create something like this. 1-2hrs of a mix style album that is upbeat with no vocals.

The only thing that comes close are finding specific artist's that don't use vocals much in their mixes. Cercle has a lot of great mixes that come close. Sebastian Leger's mix might be one of those. But some parts of the mix are a little distracting.

Try Digitally Imported (https://www.di.fm) Streaming since 1999!

Just search for “instrumental trance mix” on YouTube

This is will get you very generic music. You'll need curators (DJs) to do the work to dig deeper for you.

Do you like techno? I find that—with the exception of certain subgenres—a stalwart chunk of techno has resisted the trend towards incorporating vocals.

Side idea: wouldn't it be great if somebody made a "vocal remover" for streams that have them?

The fact that this is still a difficult problem makes me think we haven’t progressed that far yet with ML and AI.

I don't believe it's a difficult problem - no need for ML/AI since removing vocals was / has been done decades ago already, see karaoke - it's just that nobody's bothered to build it. Plus, adapting a song like that has legal implications; iirc you can't just release a karaoke version of a song for example.

I'm struggling to find some examples of contemporary electronic music around that genre, but I'd recommend listening to some of the tracks from This Never Happened [0] label. Lane 8, Le Youth, Massane, Jerro and a lot more have pretty nice and energetic tracks, some without vocals.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@Lane8

Does anyone know if Thinner's releases are archived somewhere? Here's some of their stuff (it was a netlabel from awhile ago that released free music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXNgC94ZUk&list=PLE77D1EF33...

There's also Deep Mix Moscow Radio (probably more around soundcloud etc): https://archive.org/details/DeepMixMoscowRadioJuly1120160729...

Maybe you will like Solar Field - Random Friday

Not sure if it's exactly what you need tho, in terms of genre

One of my absolute favorite albums to drive, code or run to.

Great rec. Also Solar Fields - Earthshine is a tremendous album as well. I really like my beats and grimy basslines when I'm in the mood for that.

Append "Instrumental" to your search results and look for non Spotify playlists (i.e. community tended). I feel like every time I pick a "recommended" playlist that swears it is non-vocal, I wind up hearing some horrific voice samples ~30 minutes later.

My go-to deep work music when I don't have time to think is "techno bunker" with random playback. Some genres do not lend themselves to vocals very well and I hide inside of these as appropriate.

My other strategy with vocals is to listen to music in other languages, preferably stuff like German or Korean (you might even catch me listening to kpop while coding). Most romantic languages I can decipher enough to get distracted.

Prog house not trance, but Hernan Cattaneo’s Balance Presents Sudbeat Continuous Mix 2 [0] is my absolute go-to as a complement for focusing/thinking etc. Not his overall best work, but for my criteria for focus music it’s amazing (butter smooth transitions, no vocals, continuity throughout mix, ~120 bpm).

[0]: https://open.spotify.com/track/1t7EJCFDDcJKBF129PvJan

Youtube <genre-you-like + "mix">, Soundcloud mixes from labels you like, https://www.nts.live/

https://www.youtube.com/@hoer.berlin

https://soundcloud.com/vitamin1000

https://soundcloud.com/tank-magazine

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor

> Does anyone have pointers to streaming electronic music (ideally trance / progressive trance, upbeat synthwave[0], or house) that has absolutely no vocals?

Gai Barone has hundreds of episodes of Patterns, most of it has no vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPSqPjktuo

Same with John 00 Fleming (there is J00F sessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ye34nerFw and his monthly show J00F Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15QotV3QZvk , tho most of the episodes are on SoundCloud or any Podcast app). Vocals are pretty uncommon here too.

I'd start there and when you find a track you like, go to the tracklisting to find the music label, then check out more of their releases.

Plugging my own mix 'cause I think it fits what you're describing pretty well. 3hrs of deep progressive and psychedelic trance. I've been collecting and playing records for a long time, I love old Sasha & Digweed style prog - especially the deeper cuts - and the reasonable (!) end of the psychedelic spectrum with the uncompromising groove.

https://soundcloud.com/mattjarvisdjs/strange-loop

https://www.tm-radio.com/ (but there are voices during the show transitions)

> upbeat synthwave

I've recently discovered FM-84. Eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AuJF9v2Lw&list=OLAK5uy_lra...

Edit: some of their songs do have lyrics though.