From Madlib to The Alchemist: Toe-tap your way through the work day with our #stayhome DJ playlist

Featuring instrumentals by legendary hip-hop producers DJ Premier and J Dilla, as well as some funky electro-tarab by Hello Psychaleppo

Tracks by DJ Premier will reinvigorate your work day. Corbis

Post-Its are lined on your coffee table, three dozen Chrome tabs are slowing down your computer, you’ve been drinking more coffee than usual and when you stand up to stretch, the bones in your back crack like a grating orchestra.

You might be needing a little pick-me-up groove to manoeuvre better through it all. Something to give you rhythm as you work from home. That's why this #stayhome playlist, which comes as part of The National's efforts to encourage people to stay indoors to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, is all about introducing you – and the desk jockey within you – to some outstanding DJs and artists.

Their work can help you get through the work day with some toe-tapping beats – think music to get you in a groove without being obtrusive.

Otis Jackson Jr – better known as Madlib – starts off the playlist with a track that utilises samples from Bollywood playback singers Minoo Purshottam and Lata Mangeshkar. The number is the perfect sign of what’s to come.

Expect works by DJ Premier and J Dilla, both acclaimed and legendary producers, who have worked with some of the biggest names in hip-hop. DJ Premier has laid down tracks for the likes of Anderson .Paak, Mos Def, Nas and Common while J Dilla, who died in 2006 from lupus three days after the release of his legendary Donuts, produced a number of celebrated albums, including Common's Like Water for Chocolate and A Tribe Called Quest's The Love Movement. He also collaborated with Madlib in a project dubbed Jaylib.

Flying Lotus, Onra and The Alchemist also make appearances on the playlist, as does a glitch-grooved track by American electronic musician The Flashbulb and UK producer Bonobo. The playlist’s penultimate track is a brassy banger by DJ Quik, wrapping up with a funky electro-tarab track by Syrian producer Samer Saem Eldahr, known as Hello Psychaleppo.

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