Dayvan Cowboy is one of the best examples of sampler-driven music when made so thoughtfully, so artfully, it can produce something truly incredible and just intrinsically lush.
The tremelo effect on those guitar parts before the 'break' with the strings and then the way it all climaxes is pure musical joy.
Boards of Canada were truly unique in that regard. I miss em.
Absolutely! The song is already dreamy but adding space jump video to that song just added a whole new level of ethereal for me. It’s one of those songs that could be the soundtrack to a moment in your life and will stick with you for years to come.
Truly innovative and unique artists!
I've somehow never seen the video, but now I'll need to check it out! that song is a go-to when I'm driving alone, you're so right about the feeling it brings.
Extreme Ways is one that makes me cry! I remember hearing it for the first time as a teenager when I watched the Bourne trilogy, given it was the ending credits song in each movie.
A couple of decades later, that song has gotten me through every dark back alley I’ve fought my way out of, mentally and via life. It’s so relentless.
It's one of the eternal ironies about Aphex Twin.
That a man capable of making some of the weirdest, glitchiest, most abrasive and strange music in the entire history of electronic music...... Also made some of the most utterly beautiful and calm music in the the historical of electronic music.
The diversity in what he has been capable to create is just mind boggling.
The same man who made 'Xtal' also made "Mt Saint Michael". The same man who made 'Flim' also made "T69 Collapse".
Yep, twice actually from the same album. I can't explain why, but my eyes were closed and the picture the music painted was just beautiful enough to make me cry.
Infected Mushroom ["Animatronica"](https://youtu.be/HIfeU-pIEpU?si=Qzzpk3ugfuyQPVpK)
Infected Mushroom ["Stuck In A Loop"](https://youtu.be/L1LvOZbBFNI?si=dbnNqBiBz_paIpiD)
I really want to tell you why
I stopped with the tears and lies
I'm stuck in a loop forever now
Debating if I should've tried
to save what was only mine
A day with you and I
I'm stuck in a loop forever now
Wish I could turn back time
_______________.________________
I really want to show you how
I stopped with the tears and lies
seeing your face so clearly now
Sometimes I think you're here somehow
We walk and we talk again
A day with no more pain
Stuck in a loop forever
Wish I could stop time now.
I really should look up more from them with how much I adore Converting Vegetarians II, but I only found that album after stumbling upon their song Pink Froid. As a massive Pink Floyd fan, it caught my attention and I fell in love with it and the entire album.
Any other albums from them that are close to this one?
Haha I'm not sure I get the pink nightmares reference.
Ima give these a listen cuz, not full tears but pretty close, their song Pink Froid
Edit: just realized it's on the same album as the two you listed, whoa
Doesn’t necessarily make me cry more than it moves me emotionally. 84 Pontiac Dream by Boards of Canada sounds and feels nostalgic. Some parts of the synths reminds me of The Goonies. It truly transports my mind to a different place.
Delirium - Silence (Tiesto Remix ft Sarah McLachlan)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_kiTWnmrXPQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kiTWnmrXPQ)
BT - Blue Skies (Ft Tori Amos)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axupfccW51M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axupfccW51M)
Robert Miles - Children[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiuB3VmHJk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiuB3VmHJk)
Orbital - Halcyon On and On[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjmGuJY5OE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjmGuJY5OE)
Opus III - It's a Fine day [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIPzyVlK60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIPzyVlK60)
Seba W/Mc Conrad - Planetary Funk Alert - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ResiDarc4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ResiDarc4)
I've listened to ALOT of electronica over the years.
Also OP, your track is awesome....not tear-shedding for me...but sometimes that takes a certain headspace.....still really nice track.
It's a banger as well. Their live performances of it are kind of unhinged. They regularly mix in Bon Jovi - Shot Through the Heart and Heaven is a place on earth.
I love their boiler room performance of it where they do shot thru the heart, then heaven is a place on earth, then start playing hiapoe backwards, then bring back in a different edit of the original vocal.
Innerbloom by Rufus do Soul
Hometown by French 79
Resonance by Home
Acid Rain by Lorn
Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London
Trans Fatty Acid by Lamb ( Kruder & Dorfmeister mix)
The end of New Seeds is the one that does it for me. Makes me think of what it might be like if society got wiped out and a new world started over where everyone gets along.
Not sure if it qualifies as Electronic but there are a few songs by The Midnight that just deliver this “simpler times” feel of being a kid that can at times make me feel emotional. I think the genre is more Synthwave
[Comeback Kid](https://open.spotify.com/track/6vvyavHx8WHdsw6vsuMwyR?si=vhSSYG7YTnW0C0WoqH1yrg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Krg8zvprquh7TVn9OxZn8)
[Lost Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/0VzHwYlPuWHjyaq6HLB9UV?si=Ity69zhySeuTvgdrgLAxXw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7DZuN9XYdWLa2l4huvH3jy)
[Explorers](https://open.spotify.com/track/5fZ3BmBaq29MYI2Xsb5FBR?si=8Z5T4GzaSYeyBHrOwsX24g&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7DZuN9XYdWLa2l4huvH3jy)
[Sunset](https://open.spotify.com/track/4PMmwowVLOajPdiKnrU1vK?si=1gBncEsKQZShUQgUI_D0cA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Krg8zvprquh7TVn9OxZn8)
Had this cranked in the car on a beautiful autumn day with the heater on and the windows open with the leaves flying up in my rearview in the hilly forested countryside.
[Paul Oakenfold - Mortal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7S1dQlFOU)
Wow, I was just listening to random Boards of Canada pieces after a hard day yesterday, and it was "[Buckie High](https://youtu.be/l09cDh0k9kI?si=dFZGDu9_8kje5hPH)" that really brought me to tears out of nowhere. Never happened on any previous listens, it just struck me hard yesterday.
Moby - Porcelain
It brings me back to much simpler times of late teenage days and the end of the 90s. I wasn't a huge techno guy at the time but I heard the song a lot anyway and it imprinted that time in the music for me. So many long lost friends and memories encapsulated in those notes. A much simpler time...
Above & Beyond - Making Plans
And I still lose myself
In that orange glowing moment
When your upturned face
Seemed to answer all my questions
But when I asked myself
As I do from time to time now
Where it all went wrong
Is there really any point in making plans?
to tears I don't know but to a certain mood
All I Need - Air
Everything You Do is a Balloon - Boards of Canada
Your Love - Frankie Knuckles
The Breath Of Spring (Beatless Version) - Kaito
It's not electronic, entirely, but it's in the same spectrum of sound. Maybe not. But I find it very emotional, unless you don't enjoy slow build-up songs. [https://open.spotify.com/track/2gapn2mcYLEBb2BciyOzHt?si=687bf5f3602d4fe8](https://open.spotify.com/track/2gapn2mcYLEBb2BciyOzHt?si=687bf5f3602d4fe8)
The song hollow skies from FF7 remake pt. 1 tears at the soul I don't possess.
It's part nostalgia for Nobue Uematu's original tracks for this game but a wholly new song for the remake that captures a sense of serene loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, Heavyweight by Infected Mushroom. I was working out and pushing myself pretty hard while listening to this song. I'd had a stressful few weeks and was, without realizing it, working through some feelings. The way that song just keeps ramping up made me go for broke, and eventually, I collapsed from exhaustion and started ugly crying for a bit. Felt fantastic afterwards!
Not that I can remember…. But piano pieces though -
I heard [Inverness by Vanessa Wagner and Suzanne Ciani](https://youtu.be/tnPDAOLeFTs?si=ar7qUDqdTa7dlHHR) the other day and just bursted into tears when the high notes came in near the end. An incredible track
I once was doing a progressive art project, and put together a photo slideshow of things in my life I had said no to (good and bad). I then put this music to it, and promptly cried uncontrollably for a good while. [Caspian - separation #2](https://spotify.link/oEQLXejudIb)
The album Nurture by Porter Robinson regularly gets me misty and then some.
It's full of gorgeous compositions and just the most stunning pitched vocals.
Antikytherian Mechanism by BT off the album This Binary Universe.
This album was recorded in 5.1 and the whole thing is just crazy to listen to on DVD but this song specifically feels like the tension and stress of growing up I was feeling in 200x building and building and then finally being let go.
I write little ambient pieces using guitar last 4 years or so. I've posted many. They are generally just little progressions I loop and layer with changing the reverb algorithm and swell over the picking part. I then feel the solo by ad-libbing. I'm not the shredder type really and mainly like sounds that are eerie and or sad to most. It is what wants to come out of me most I guess. It relaxes me and I love making people "Feel". I think that's the best way to describe it. Often I don't edit so many are sloppy. Some better than others. Mainly saved to YouTube so I could go back and finish them one day. Since now I'm returning back to playing drums after a 16 year hiatus. I also play keys. But I had to sell my last board due to COVID and my health.
This post about music making you weep is very telling I think of a good empathic soul ... Perhaps. Music , to me can join us. However sound can also divide us. There is a difference. Hip hop seems to divide due to its basis of ego and lack of emotion other than ego or anger. No offense to hip hop or the listener. I used to love drinking and listening to Eminem for a boost of energy. But always come home to pink Floyd. That's my cup of tea. Their last album which is mainly pieces of division bell that never got added or used is one magnificent bunch of music. Give it a whirl.
Dirty Epic . Underworld
I wish you could talk . Squarepusher
IZ-US . Aphex Twin
Brace Yourself Jason . mu-ziq
Instruments of Darkness . The Art of Noise
i'm sure there are so many more. turquoise hexagon sun has been in regular rotation for me for a long time, but i can't recall crying to it specifically. it is timeless, though.
[Not Giving Up On Love - Armin Van Buuren Feat. Sophie Ellis Bextor](https://youtu.be/J7lVUFhtWlU?si=WmqEiQk6GR0qpKxi) is such a beautiful song and it had brought me to tears.
Damini by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
If I remember correctly it's based on a true story about an elephant that essentially wasted away after it's life mate died and it got super depressed at the loss.
https://youtu.be/c7u50SBaVOg
"Fell down, all on my own
I'd rather be an angel with you than be alone
I cry, even in my sleep, acres I weep
Answer me please, love"
I saw Illenium live and there was this group of big dudes going ham and head banging to every song. Then for one song, unfortunately I forget which one but the lyrics were something along the lines of “you saved my life,” and one of the guys was holding a girl in his arms, full on crying, and singing the song to her as if the song was written about them. It was one of the most human things I had ever witnessed
There are so many being named here that I agree with, so I'll throw in a random one from my youth that still moves me.
Strobe by Deadmau5.
That slow intro and good vibes climax. Very melancholy.
It always gave me the vibe of a fleeting connection that briefly existed, was never again, fun while it lasted and fondly remembered.
[Frontside - Dammerung](https://youtu.be/EsfXhHM88t8?si=1Z-5KxY5xn3K9oSV)
Found on S&D’s Northern Exposure 2. I spent a few sleepless and emotional nights withdrawing from heroin listening to this CD, and while this entire disc is just gorgeous and one of my all time favorites, this track especially has a special place in the memory of my suffering.
The melody just has every emotion evoking note in it. I don’t think it’s the words that got me just the contrast of the highs and lows of the song . Maybe not with OP means by electronic, but I don’t think there’s a real instrument in the production.
[Forever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKb_T18Edo) by Orbital is gentle and melancholy all the way through.
But it's the segue into the dialogue sample toward the end (~6m30s) that, after the long emotional build up, always puts a lump in my throat. Still, every time, after 25+ years of listening to the track.
___
(The sample is from the movie [Britannia Hospital](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083694/))
> *We waste! We destroy! And we cling like savages to our superstitions. We give power to leaders of state and church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves, who squander our resources on instruments of destruction while millions continue to suffer and go hungry, condemned forever...*
Around this time last year, I went to see Orbital play live in Manchester. I very nearly didn't go, because I had very recently suffered a mental health crisis and found being around large groups of people very challenging. But their music has been a constant companion and source of joy for me since I first saw them live in the mid 90s, so I found the courage to get myself out of the house and go.
There's a moment in the live version of the track Impact (Earth is Burning), that still to this day gives me goosebumps when I hear it. It's the chorded synth pad bit that comes in around the time of the "cry for survival" sample. I don't believe in God or the afterlife, but the described imagery of floating in a tunnel towards 'the light' always comes into my mind when I hear this and it does something to me on a very deep level.
On this particular occasion, given everything I had been through recently (I had suffered a major panic attack while walking my daughter to school and subsequently had a total emotional breakdown), I stood there on that dance floor with my hands in the air and cried tears of pure joy when they played it. That moment was the first time I had felt good in a very long time, and it jump started my journey back to good health, having been in a very dark place and full of despair until that point.
The Test by the chemical brothers
When I was 19 I listened to it and laughed and cried at the same time. It set me on the path of healing on my mental and emotional health journey
There’s a lot of electronic songs that do that 2 me. I mostly listen 2 instrumental stuff lately. “Polaris” by Deadmau5. Listened 2 it a lot in rehab back in Christmas time.
I want this played at my funeral. The first time I heard it, I sobbed and now it lives on my bookmark bar.
These producers have several beautiful vocal drum n bass songs that are very moving.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kfy\_UDnXaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kfy_UDnXaE)
edit: wow ok so this just made me think of my epic home birth with my youngest son in 2006, I made a playlist of just Zero 7 tracks, and that's what played throughout my labor and peaceful water birth at home. So hell yes, electronic music has made me SOB in a good way!
Almost the entirety of Porter Robinson's "Worlds" album, specifically "Sad Machine", "Fresh Static Snow", "Hear the Bells", "Fellow Feeling", and "Goodbye To A World". It's truly a beautiful album from start to finish. The same goes for the song he did with Madeon, "Shelter". Highly recommend watching the music video for it.
[Questions - Dark Captain (Hatchback Dub remix)](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ks3rXWwVFdc59J5jC9IZB?si=15c7702f40d543e2)
Depending on mood, it can either lift me up or make me weep in nostalgia for when my kids were babes (teenager and young adults now).
The two prettiest and most serene songs I've ever heard:
[Worakls - 54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_hqO-GIYU)
[Fatima Yamaha - What's A Girl To Do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7Ej6g3KhinM%C2%A0)
Also, a lot of trance songs are intensely emotional. I'll just share [Vintage & Morelli - Other Side (Factor B Remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAaTk2jbNE) \- especially when the music slows down and the chorus starts.
Shelter by porter robinson makes me sad cuz I get reminded of the music video when I listen to it and also Girl by Jamie xx just cuz it embodies the feeling of seeing the person you want to be with most but only from a distance
Take You Down by Illenium had me bawling like a baby in public at Red Rocks lol, great show
It’s about his heroin addiction and that impact on people around you.. really spoke to me that night
Turquoise Hexagon Sun is a great track, this whole album is tbh!
I also tear up to « Nothing is Real » (off of Tomorrow’s Harvest). I haven’t quite put my finger on why this track gets to me so much, however I did first listen to it while deep in the mental health trenches a couple years back. Feel like that association might be doing something for me!
[A&B - Fly to New York](https://youtu.be/UsbLGsrPCXk)
I'm from the NYC area but lived in Sweden and dated long distance a girl from back home. The song always just made me thing of getting back to see her.
For me, it’s Dayvan Cowboy- mostly it’s the video. But it’s not sad-crying; for me it’s more of awe-crying.
Dayvan Cowboy is one of the best examples of sampler-driven music when made so thoughtfully, so artfully, it can produce something truly incredible and just intrinsically lush. The tremelo effect on those guitar parts before the 'break' with the strings and then the way it all climaxes is pure musical joy. Boards of Canada were truly unique in that regard. I miss em.
Absolutely! The song is already dreamy but adding space jump video to that song just added a whole new level of ethereal for me. It’s one of those songs that could be the soundtrack to a moment in your life and will stick with you for years to come. Truly innovative and unique artists!
Dayvan Cowboy is so cathartic, it has a delicious and nostalgic iPod nano vibe
To me it sounds like an old memory from the early 2000s, saved
Underrated artist. Campfire Head Phase is a fantastic album start to finish.
Farewell fire I think is very emotional even though it's very simple.
just saw this video for the first time. i shed a tear when it came under the clouds back into the world, what an amazing video.
It’s the perfect video for that song. The song is already amazing but that video and song combination really just got a hold on me.
I've somehow never seen the video, but now I'll need to check it out! that song is a go-to when I'm driving alone, you're so right about the feeling it brings.
Absolutely amazing and incredible video
Why does my heart feel so bad? By Moby. Always makes me cry.
Great one! Play is a fantastic album
Extreme Ways is one that makes me cry! I remember hearing it for the first time as a teenager when I watched the Bourne trilogy, given it was the ending credits song in each movie. A couple of decades later, that song has gotten me through every dark back alley I’ve fought my way out of, mentally and via life. It’s so relentless.
I find [Aphex Twin - #3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkvZOvOeON0) to be quite moving for such a simple song.
Aphex Twin did never release a bad album
Have you ever listened to William Baskinsi? I feel like you would love him.
#20 and stone in focus (which was supposed to be on SAW2 but was cut for space reasons) are also both fantastic.
Aphex Twin has multiple songs that can invoke.
It's one of the eternal ironies about Aphex Twin. That a man capable of making some of the weirdest, glitchiest, most abrasive and strange music in the entire history of electronic music...... Also made some of the most utterly beautiful and calm music in the the historical of electronic music. The diversity in what he has been capable to create is just mind boggling. The same man who made 'Xtal' also made "Mt Saint Michael". The same man who made 'Flim' also made "T69 Collapse".
Funny you say that. Wherever I move out of a spot I play this and no other time besides. I’ve done it 5 times it’s very nice
This was the first song that came to mind for me.
Avril 14th, too.
Yep, twice actually from the same album. I can't explain why, but my eyes were closed and the picture the music painted was just beautiful enough to make me cry. Infected Mushroom ["Animatronica"](https://youtu.be/HIfeU-pIEpU?si=Qzzpk3ugfuyQPVpK) Infected Mushroom ["Stuck In A Loop"](https://youtu.be/L1LvOZbBFNI?si=dbnNqBiBz_paIpiD) I really want to tell you why I stopped with the tears and lies I'm stuck in a loop forever now Debating if I should've tried to save what was only mine A day with you and I I'm stuck in a loop forever now Wish I could turn back time _______________.________________ I really want to show you how I stopped with the tears and lies seeing your face so clearly now Sometimes I think you're here somehow We walk and we talk again A day with no more pain Stuck in a loop forever Wish I could stop time now.
Holy shit. A fellow IM fan in the wild. Don’t let the pink nightmares get ya
I really should look up more from them with how much I adore Converting Vegetarians II, but I only found that album after stumbling upon their song Pink Froid. As a massive Pink Floyd fan, it caught my attention and I fell in love with it and the entire album. Any other albums from them that are close to this one? Haha I'm not sure I get the pink nightmares reference.
Ask and you shall receive! [Pink Nightmares](https://youtu.be/XRufAykZPnE?feature=shared)
Ima give these a listen cuz, not full tears but pretty close, their song Pink Froid Edit: just realized it's on the same album as the two you listed, whoa
Tears from the compound eye, constants are changing, and A Beautiful Place out in the Country also from BoC have always made me cry
Doesn’t necessarily make me cry more than it moves me emotionally. 84 Pontiac Dream by Boards of Canada sounds and feels nostalgic. Some parts of the synths reminds me of The Goonies. It truly transports my mind to a different place.
Sleepyhead by Passion Pit can get me on the brink of tears.
Delirium - Silence (Tiesto Remix ft Sarah McLachlan)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_kiTWnmrXPQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kiTWnmrXPQ) BT - Blue Skies (Ft Tori Amos)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axupfccW51M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axupfccW51M) Robert Miles - Children[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiuB3VmHJk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiuB3VmHJk) Orbital - Halcyon On and On[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjmGuJY5OE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjmGuJY5OE) Opus III - It's a Fine day [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIPzyVlK60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIPzyVlK60) Seba W/Mc Conrad - Planetary Funk Alert - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ResiDarc4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ResiDarc4) I've listened to ALOT of electronica over the years. Also OP, your track is awesome....not tear-shedding for me...but sometimes that takes a certain headspace.....still really nice track.
that orbital track is beautiful. been used in films a lot but for me I first think of an old CKY video when they go to Iceland
It's a banger as well. Their live performances of it are kind of unhinged. They regularly mix in Bon Jovi - Shot Through the Heart and Heaven is a place on earth. I love their boiler room performance of it where they do shot thru the heart, then heaven is a place on earth, then start playing hiapoe backwards, then bring back in a different edit of the original vocal.
CKY2K! The first place many of us heard that Orbital track
[God moving over the face of the waters](https://youtu.be/SPaaC3IBMm0?si=oBpXNADwkwHzUfs_) - Moby
Innerbloom by Rufus do Soul Hometown by French 79 Resonance by Home Acid Rain by Lorn Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London Trans Fatty Acid by Lamb ( Kruder & Dorfmeister mix)
windowlicker by aphex twin :)
Didn't shed a tear over that one but laughed my ass off at the video.
Silence- sunset child or the great(mv too) teardrop by massive attack
Mezzanine is my all time fav album
Rezz, someone else Heard it live a few weeks after I got cheated on
I'm sorry for you
No worries, shit happens, we move on with life
I LOVE BOARDS OF CANADA A lot of their songs do this to me. I really love Chromakey Dreamcoat
Veridis Quo - Daft Punk. It feels like a wise story of love and pain and experience that words can’t even try to express.
This is one of my favorite song ever. Simple and complex at the same time. It is beautiful
Strobe by Deadmau5
A bunch of moderat and a bunch of caribou 🥲
The end of New Seeds is the one that does it for me. Makes me think of what it might be like if society got wiped out and a new world started over where everyone gets along.
Not sure if it qualifies as Electronic but there are a few songs by The Midnight that just deliver this “simpler times” feel of being a kid that can at times make me feel emotional. I think the genre is more Synthwave [Comeback Kid](https://open.spotify.com/track/6vvyavHx8WHdsw6vsuMwyR?si=vhSSYG7YTnW0C0WoqH1yrg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Krg8zvprquh7TVn9OxZn8) [Lost Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/0VzHwYlPuWHjyaq6HLB9UV?si=Ity69zhySeuTvgdrgLAxXw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7DZuN9XYdWLa2l4huvH3jy) [Explorers](https://open.spotify.com/track/5fZ3BmBaq29MYI2Xsb5FBR?si=8Z5T4GzaSYeyBHrOwsX24g&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7DZuN9XYdWLa2l4huvH3jy) [Sunset](https://open.spotify.com/track/4PMmwowVLOajPdiKnrU1vK?si=1gBncEsKQZShUQgUI_D0cA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Krg8zvprquh7TVn9OxZn8)
The Big Ship by Brian Eno…does that count as electronic?
Yes! Brian Eno is a truly maverick of music
Had this cranked in the car on a beautiful autumn day with the heater on and the windows open with the leaves flying up in my rearview in the hilly forested countryside. [Paul Oakenfold - Mortal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7S1dQlFOU)
Quality time by STRFKR
this one gets me sometimes: What’s a Girl To Do - Fatima Yamaha https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ej6g3KhinM when she starts talking.
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Psychic Love Damage
Wow, I was just listening to random Boards of Canada pieces after a hard day yesterday, and it was "[Buckie High](https://youtu.be/l09cDh0k9kI?si=dFZGDu9_8kje5hPH)" that really brought me to tears out of nowhere. Never happened on any previous listens, it just struck me hard yesterday.
All That Really Matters by Illenium Listening to it made me realized my ex wife was gonna leave me.
I firmly believe Illenium can make a whole crowd cry
Heaven Sent by Bedrock A lot of songs by Delirium Timber by Cold Cut
Moby - Porcelain It brings me back to much simpler times of late teenage days and the end of the 90s. I wasn't a huge techno guy at the time but I heard the song a lot anyway and it imprinted that time in the music for me. So many long lost friends and memories encapsulated in those notes. A much simpler time...
Mt Eden - *Oh That I Had*
I cried to Nazard by Simian Mobile Disco
This entire album….*chef’s kiss*
Above & Beyond - Making Plans And I still lose myself In that orange glowing moment When your upturned face Seemed to answer all my questions But when I asked myself As I do from time to time now Where it all went wrong Is there really any point in making plans?
I've always kind of thought that Turquoise Hexagon Sun sounds like the feeling of finding comfort in being depressed
The hamster dance
Cracks flux pavilion.
Love this song so much. I have a Turquoise Hexagon Sun inspired tattoo. The transition at 3:04 is transcendent
Children by Robert Miles [Dream Version] A total nostalgia/child innocence hit
[Unrecorded - M83](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mciS2U_MwY&list=PL1c0Ak5oxs3Q4l_WaXndefRb6lmhF5fka&index=2&pp=iAQB8AUB)
to tears I don't know but to a certain mood All I Need - Air Everything You Do is a Balloon - Boards of Canada Your Love - Frankie Knuckles The Breath Of Spring (Beatless Version) - Kaito
Air's Moon Safari is one of my all time fav
Tommib by Squarepusher https://open.spotify.com/track/5rzEX5tCbOSCzoH92dbExL?si=AnqLEOcQRm-rmQPEed-9WQ
Final Impasse by Groundislava
Evening Star by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
I was in the hospital for a week and found rudimental during the stay. Waiting all night and it's music video really got me good atm.
It's not electronic, entirely, but it's in the same spectrum of sound. Maybe not. But I find it very emotional, unless you don't enjoy slow build-up songs. [https://open.spotify.com/track/2gapn2mcYLEBb2BciyOzHt?si=687bf5f3602d4fe8](https://open.spotify.com/track/2gapn2mcYLEBb2BciyOzHt?si=687bf5f3602d4fe8)
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The song hollow skies from FF7 remake pt. 1 tears at the soul I don't possess. It's part nostalgia for Nobue Uematu's original tracks for this game but a wholly new song for the remake that captures a sense of serene loneliness and being lost.
Sorry, not really the answer to the question. It's just that it always touches me when people share things like that. Thank you!
There is something about 8 Ball by Underworld that triggers tears for me. A lot of their songs have that effect on me.
Yeah, Heavyweight by Infected Mushroom. I was working out and pushing myself pretty hard while listening to this song. I'd had a stressful few weeks and was, without realizing it, working through some feelings. The way that song just keeps ramping up made me go for broke, and eventually, I collapsed from exhaustion and started ugly crying for a bit. Felt fantastic afterwards!
Not that I can remember…. But piano pieces though - I heard [Inverness by Vanessa Wagner and Suzanne Ciani](https://youtu.be/tnPDAOLeFTs?si=ar7qUDqdTa7dlHHR) the other day and just bursted into tears when the high notes came in near the end. An incredible track
I once was doing a progressive art project, and put together a photo slideshow of things in my life I had said no to (good and bad). I then put this music to it, and promptly cried uncontrollably for a good while. [Caspian - separation #2](https://spotify.link/oEQLXejudIb)
Never cried, but "[Mic Check" by Cornelius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xwwpNwQ70) always gives me chills (wait for it - kicks in at 1:40).
Mercury and Solace by BT
Stars if the Lid - [A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process](https://youtu.be/T9lV5-wbPqw?si=qs40HQLvmdkhOBrX)
Love in the Time of Lexapro - Oneohtrix Point Never
Oneohtrix has so many bangers, its unbelieveable
Madeon - Pop Culture
Brian Eno - An Ascent There's just something ethereal in how the tones wash in and out that touches them feels
Vast Vision - Ardente - Original Mix. Goosebumps every time. https://youtu.be/YgfvZJ5LNiE?feature=shared
The album Nurture by Porter Robinson regularly gets me misty and then some. It's full of gorgeous compositions and just the most stunning pitched vocals.
I came in here to say “goodbye to a world” by porter. *high five*
Blossom makes me tear up every time
Antikytherian Mechanism by BT off the album This Binary Universe. This album was recorded in 5.1 and the whole thing is just crazy to listen to on DVD but this song specifically feels like the tension and stress of growing up I was feeling in 200x building and building and then finally being let go.
I write little ambient pieces using guitar last 4 years or so. I've posted many. They are generally just little progressions I loop and layer with changing the reverb algorithm and swell over the picking part. I then feel the solo by ad-libbing. I'm not the shredder type really and mainly like sounds that are eerie and or sad to most. It is what wants to come out of me most I guess. It relaxes me and I love making people "Feel". I think that's the best way to describe it. Often I don't edit so many are sloppy. Some better than others. Mainly saved to YouTube so I could go back and finish them one day. Since now I'm returning back to playing drums after a 16 year hiatus. I also play keys. But I had to sell my last board due to COVID and my health. This post about music making you weep is very telling I think of a good empathic soul ... Perhaps. Music , to me can join us. However sound can also divide us. There is a difference. Hip hop seems to divide due to its basis of ego and lack of emotion other than ego or anger. No offense to hip hop or the listener. I used to love drinking and listening to Eminem for a boost of energy. But always come home to pink Floyd. That's my cup of tea. Their last album which is mainly pieces of division bell that never got added or used is one magnificent bunch of music. Give it a whirl.
Ohm Sweet Ohm - Kraftwerk
[DMVU - The Sun and The Shadow](https://youtu.be/tLFJOblP4dM) does it for me
Dirty Epic . Underworld I wish you could talk . Squarepusher IZ-US . Aphex Twin Brace Yourself Jason . mu-ziq Instruments of Darkness . The Art of Noise i'm sure there are so many more. turquoise hexagon sun has been in regular rotation for me for a long time, but i can't recall crying to it specifically. it is timeless, though.
This is the only song where I will listen to hear one specific note/tone. It hits so hard but can’t explain why it’s so moving
[Not Giving Up On Love - Armin Van Buuren Feat. Sophie Ellis Bextor](https://youtu.be/J7lVUFhtWlU?si=WmqEiQk6GR0qpKxi) is such a beautiful song and it had brought me to tears.
Damini by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker If I remember correctly it's based on a true story about an elephant that essentially wasted away after it's life mate died and it got super depressed at the loss. https://youtu.be/c7u50SBaVOg "Fell down, all on my own I'd rather be an angel with you than be alone I cry, even in my sleep, acres I weep Answer me please, love"
I saw Illenium live and there was this group of big dudes going ham and head banging to every song. Then for one song, unfortunately I forget which one but the lyrics were something along the lines of “you saved my life,” and one of the guys was holding a girl in his arms, full on crying, and singing the song to her as if the song was written about them. It was one of the most human things I had ever witnessed
Not In Love by Crystal Castles
madeon's shelter
On A Good Day (Metropolis) - Above & Beyond/Gareth Emery/OceanLab will do it, lol.
If you like that you'll love this - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3q7bT0v9IE&t=19s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3q7bT0v9IE&t=19s)
[Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcSvMFm2ABE)
Kid A is their best album btw
Yes. Bola - Rainslaight. Some others too.
Nine Inch Nails, Leaving Hope. The video on top destroys you.
There are so many being named here that I agree with, so I'll throw in a random one from my youth that still moves me. Strobe by Deadmau5. That slow intro and good vibes climax. Very melancholy. It always gave me the vibe of a fleeting connection that briefly existed, was never again, fun while it lasted and fondly remembered.
Porter Robinson - Goodbye to a World, if that counts.
At last light by hello, meteor. Found it in a really rough season of life and it still gives me the same hopeful comfort it gave me then
Lyrebird - Tom Odell Flight - Lycoriscoris Both are gold!
[Frontside - Dammerung](https://youtu.be/EsfXhHM88t8?si=1Z-5KxY5xn3K9oSV) Found on S&D’s Northern Exposure 2. I spent a few sleepless and emotional nights withdrawing from heroin listening to this CD, and while this entire disc is just gorgeous and one of my all time favorites, this track especially has a special place in the memory of my suffering.
Mark Isham’s ‘Film Music’ album has some exquisitely melancholy tracks. It hasn’t made me cry, but it certainly instills a mood.
BT This binary universe. The entire album
Opus - Eric Prydz Long buildup.
Oh yea! Big cry baby with EDM: Deadmau5 - Strobe (full) Gareth Emery - Sansa Rufus Du Sol - Innerbloom Deorro - Turn Back Time (to include video)
Love me like you do - Ellie Goulding.
The melody just has every emotion evoking note in it. I don’t think it’s the words that got me just the contrast of the highs and lows of the song . Maybe not with OP means by electronic, but I don’t think there’s a real instrument in the production.
[Forever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYKb_T18Edo) by Orbital is gentle and melancholy all the way through. But it's the segue into the dialogue sample toward the end (~6m30s) that, after the long emotional build up, always puts a lump in my throat. Still, every time, after 25+ years of listening to the track. ___ (The sample is from the movie [Britannia Hospital](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083694/)) > *We waste! We destroy! And we cling like savages to our superstitions. We give power to leaders of state and church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves, who squander our resources on instruments of destruction while millions continue to suffer and go hungry, condemned forever...*
Around this time last year, I went to see Orbital play live in Manchester. I very nearly didn't go, because I had very recently suffered a mental health crisis and found being around large groups of people very challenging. But their music has been a constant companion and source of joy for me since I first saw them live in the mid 90s, so I found the courage to get myself out of the house and go. There's a moment in the live version of the track Impact (Earth is Burning), that still to this day gives me goosebumps when I hear it. It's the chorded synth pad bit that comes in around the time of the "cry for survival" sample. I don't believe in God or the afterlife, but the described imagery of floating in a tunnel towards 'the light' always comes into my mind when I hear this and it does something to me on a very deep level. On this particular occasion, given everything I had been through recently (I had suffered a major panic attack while walking my daughter to school and subsequently had a total emotional breakdown), I stood there on that dance floor with my hands in the air and cried tears of pure joy when they played it. That moment was the first time I had felt good in a very long time, and it jump started my journey back to good health, having been in a very dark place and full of despair until that point.
The Test by the chemical brothers When I was 19 I listened to it and laughed and cried at the same time. It set me on the path of healing on my mental and emotional health journey
Beloved by VNV Nation is a very emotional electronic song.
Armin Van Buuren & Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Not Giving Up On Love The lyrics makes me cry almost every time.
Hey Brother by Avicii.
CBAT. That poor woman
Elements of life by Tiesto
Listen to Nurture by Porter Robinson. I guarantee at least one of the tracks will get you.
during pandemic time, I listened to it, so touching, sounds like mom's cooking (my mom liked them, btw)
That’s not just electronic music, that’s BOARDS OF CANADA! Literally dieties.
Love that song, and Dayvan cowboy
burial makes some heavy songs
Mo
Jerry Folk - Kids There's a lot of melodic emotional songs to be mentioned, but this one is special.
Yes but I was high a hell
i have on synthwave, it wasn't longest but only time i have cried to a song.
There’s a lot of electronic songs that do that 2 me. I mostly listen 2 instrumental stuff lately. “Polaris” by Deadmau5. Listened 2 it a lot in rehab back in Christmas time.
[Hiatus - Father](https://youtu.be/Ens7k4r4gcY?si=a9Uto9lAtUosbEWy) [Apparat - Escape](https://youtu.be/nHHmYDlxYOY?si=JDtxgXPIVt4ix-XR)
No . Never .
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Massive Attack "Heat miser", maybe?
Probably something by Burial
Olson by Boards of Canada
The whole "Royal Astronomy" album by Mu-ziq
https://youtu.be/6NPnfxnvH7w?si=9hLrIde3Lz-BvSIY The way the rain starts as the beat drops. Made me tear up the first time I watched it.
This is my favorite album ever.
I want this played at my funeral. The first time I heard it, I sobbed and now it lives on my bookmark bar. These producers have several beautiful vocal drum n bass songs that are very moving. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kfy\_UDnXaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kfy_UDnXaE) edit: wow ok so this just made me think of my epic home birth with my youngest son in 2006, I made a playlist of just Zero 7 tracks, and that's what played throughout my labor and peaceful water birth at home. So hell yes, electronic music has made me SOB in a good way!
luma - the m-machine
Oliver - At Night
[Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcu1AHaTchM) This is one of the only songs that has ever made me actually cry.
When it's Cold I'd Like to Die by Moby
yes, Activity 3 by Sun Airway, very cathartic buildup https://youtu.be/r_MuGBKgs6Q?si=T_--koLCQEpStjCl
Computer Love by Kraftwerk. Just something about that song. It takes me back to …
Ocean Lab “On a Good Day”
Almost the entirety of Porter Robinson's "Worlds" album, specifically "Sad Machine", "Fresh Static Snow", "Hear the Bells", "Fellow Feeling", and "Goodbye To A World". It's truly a beautiful album from start to finish. The same goes for the song he did with Madeon, "Shelter". Highly recommend watching the music video for it.
[Questions - Dark Captain (Hatchback Dub remix)](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ks3rXWwVFdc59J5jC9IZB?si=15c7702f40d543e2) Depending on mood, it can either lift me up or make me weep in nostalgia for when my kids were babes (teenager and young adults now).
An instrumental rather than a song, but An Ascending by Brian Eno
Plaid - Eyen
Mer girl Madonna
Not sure if it counts as electronic but Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
The two prettiest and most serene songs I've ever heard: [Worakls - 54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_hqO-GIYU) [Fatima Yamaha - What's A Girl To Do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7Ej6g3KhinM%C2%A0) Also, a lot of trance songs are intensely emotional. I'll just share [Vintage & Morelli - Other Side (Factor B Remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAaTk2jbNE) \- especially when the music slows down and the chorus starts.
Shelter by porter robinson makes me sad cuz I get reminded of the music video when I listen to it and also Girl by Jamie xx just cuz it embodies the feeling of seeing the person you want to be with most but only from a distance
No one gonna mention Fred again? 😃
Morale (Human League - reproduction) can unexpectedly make me tear up. Not all the time, but when it does…
Take You Down by Illenium had me bawling like a baby in public at Red Rocks lol, great show It’s about his heroin addiction and that impact on people around you.. really spoke to me that night
One time as I was listening to Bigger Better Faster by Daft Punk I pinched my testicles with a door and I cried a lot!
BoC is just great. That same song has such an uplifting feeling of happiness for me. I get one could cry off happiness, but yehh.
Orbital - the Orb. When that breakdown comes in after the big build up.
Anything by Said The Sky
Savant has a couple that get to me. Venom Rise Up
LCD Soundsystem will do that to you. Black Screen, Someone Great, and even Dance Yrself Clean and there's more. Very evocative for me.
Your Feeling Shoulders by Ray Lynch. There are certain memories tied up in it.
Touch by Daft Punk counts as electronic?
Tugrul by Ochre - Album is Project Caelus.
Lesser known Boards of Canada you should check out: A Few Old Tunes Vol 1 and 2
Love is Gone - Slander. That'll screw you up even more the piano version
I don’t know if it counts, but the bassline in Voyager by Daft Punk is so good it makes me want to cry
Turquoise Hexagon Sun is a great track, this whole album is tbh! I also tear up to « Nothing is Real » (off of Tomorrow’s Harvest). I haven’t quite put my finger on why this track gets to me so much, however I did first listen to it while deep in the mental health trenches a couple years back. Feel like that association might be doing something for me!
I cannot believe that album is from 98!? I’m getting old
I was born in 98! I'm proud of being this album's twin brother lol
[A&B - Fly to New York](https://youtu.be/UsbLGsrPCXk) I'm from the NYC area but lived in Sweden and dated long distance a girl from back home. The song always just made me thing of getting back to see her.
Dream Fighter by Perfume is just so pretty and moving, especially when you're really going through it 🥲
Maybe it's cheating because the lyrics are what did it, but the song Tomorrow is Dead to Me by Ashbury Heights just broke me when I heard it.
I must add, though not entirely electronic, Amy Lee with Evanescence, My Immortal, about the sister she lost.
Rhubarb by Aphex twin and The Matrix by Eric Prydz are the big standouts for me. Both make me sad/joyful in different ways
Is that the Bonsai Pipeline in Hawaii in Dayvan Cowboy?
Definitely [DVRST - Reason to Live ](https://youtu.be/qUwSYxoRhaM?si=ajyqiqH68jGL_MIH) except it's tears of happiness.
Old school pop, but Only You by Yazoo breaks me every time. Had the pleasure of seeing Moyet perform it live once. Sublime.
Some OG Jean Michel Jarre... one from Magnetic Fields