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Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me
by duncanmcdowell 14y ago
Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me
- jmduke 14y agoExtremely anecdotal, but my silver bullets are jazz (modern soft jazz is great for this, but Kind of Blue [www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB669XXjnUg] has the advantage of being a landmark work AND incredibly relaxing) and really soft indie/folk (Blind Pilot, Iron and Wine, Noah & The Whale, that kind of thing.)
- Nav_Panel 14y agoI love coding to jazz. "It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening" [0]. I collect records too, and jazz is one of my favorite genres to listen to on vinyl (although the distraction of the record flip can be a problem... sometimes I'll forget that it needs to be flipped at all, and I'll listen to the inner/lock groove for like 15 minutes before turning it off). [0] http://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-blue-mw0000191710 http://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-blue-mw0000191710
- yeureka 14y agoMy favourites for coding are: Stephan Micus John Surman Kraftwerk [EDIT: tried to put artist names in different lines ]
- gknoy 14y agoI find myself going between Digitally Imported's "Epic Trance", "Vocal Trance", and "Hands up" stations [1], but as soon as I can find my Tron Legacy soundtrack I'll be listening to the "Sea of Simulation" track on infinite loop. 1: http://di.fm/ http://di.fm/
- peterwwillis 14y agoI like some ambient drum&bass for a similar sound, but a little more energy to keep me focused. http://www.last.fm/listen/group/Atmospheric%2520Drum%2527n%2527Bass http://www.last.fm/listen/group/Atmospheric%2520Drum%2527n%2... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzoY_eEnnac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzoY_eEnnac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ziP7iMCAok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ziP7iMCAok
- Breakthrough 14y agoI find a lot of ambient music without vocals is good (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Nettless, etc...). Not too repetitive, but the sounds give a nice "mask" to the external world and lets you focus. I also found an online radio station called "Moving Through Space" which provides some nice background ambiance when reading (esp. science fiction): http://www.live365.com/stations/atombob http://www.live365.com/stations/atombob
- fumar 14y agoIt depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies. Electronic 1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house) 2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92 3. Moby - 18 4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house) 5. Boards of Canada - Music has the right to Children 6. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By Post-Classical 1. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians 2. Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness 3. Max Richter - Memoryhouse 4. Nico Muhly - Speaks Volumes Pop/Indie/Jazz 1. Royksopp - Melody AM 2. The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place 3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun 4. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way 5. Benoit Pioulard - Lasted
- jerf 14y ago"I find productive music to almost always lack vocals." Languages you don't speak also work.
- awolf 14y agoThanks for this list, I went through everything you listed and found a few new albums which fit my coding music tastes. Along the the same lines as fumar's suggestions, I recommend: 1. Music from Braid (yes, the video game) 2. Black Swan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 3. The Social Network Soundtrack
- paulovsk 14y agoInception OST is insane too. Live long, Hans Zimmer!
- ds206 14y agoAnything from Explosions In The Sky. They're awesome and without vocals. Most of their music has made it to YouTube.
- mdellabitta 14y agoI agree with a number of these, also want to add: Brian Eno, any of the Ambient series Either of the Fripp and Eno albums Oval Windy and Carl
- tunesmith 14y agoMy favorite so far is Phillip Glass's soundtrack to Kundun. Really interesting but not so much that it's distracting.
- milkmiruku 14y agoAmbient and drone work well for me. Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon and Soma.fm's Dronezone stream are favourites.
- ryen 14y agoThe best music for me when trying to be productive is music that I least pay attention to and concentrate on enjoying. If the music is too interesting then I get distracted. So for me: techno.
- terhechte 14y agoI can't recommend CAN highly enough. I've written code to their music since 2006 (with pauses when I couldn't stand it anymore). Their music ranges from kinda rock to kinda ambient but they usually have a solid beat which helps me concentrate and somehow makes me type faster since I try to align to it subconciously I guess. They also have minimal vocals, and if there're vocals, there're hard to understand since it is a gibberish of english, japanese, german, and made-up words. I recently created a light playlist of CAN tracks that work well for getting into the music: http://open.spotify.com/user/1218377486/playlist/5I4ZecZgYo9UoKbVMzjzOC http://open.spotify.com/user/1218377486/playlist/5I4ZecZgYo9... Apart from that, these two albums are also good for getting into it: CAN - Tago Mago CAN - Future Days (Also, their music is from 1968 - 1973 but sounds very contemporary) Edit: Lines
- revorad 14y agoThanks for introducing me to this!
- dantiberian 14y agoThese guys are great!
- companyhen 14y agoThey're an amazing group. Krautrock is a great genre and those albums are among the best. I love Kraftwerk as well.
- elbear 14y agoI've been listening a lot of Hans Zimmer's music lately.
- ScottBurson 14y agoI greatly prefer ambient, and my favorite ambient artist these days is the late Lucette Bourdin: http://www.earthmantra.com/artist-detail.php?id=17 http://www.earthmantra.com/artist-detail.php?id=17 I'm also very fond of Steve Roach.
- seniorsassycat 14y agoI've been listening to the Dave Brubeck Pandora station lately, the music goes well with anything.
- lprubin 14y agoI'm surprised this hasn't been listed yet since it's usually a HN fav: http://musicforprogramming.net/ http://musicforprogramming.net/ It's my go to at work whenever things get too noisy.
- cloverich 14y agoI've been collecting albums in a playlist, sharing because I don't see any of them here: http://open.spotify.com/user/1216782004/playlist/7Me4IwfD6FVOA0EeRrweFV http://open.spotify.com/user/1216782004/playlist/7Me4IwfD6FV... I've been adding much more quickly than curating, so probably lots of stuff that's not a good fit; at any rate, a few of my favorites so far: 1. Apparat - The Devil's Walk 2. Washed Out - Within and Without 3. Little People - Mickey Mouse Operation 4. Phutureprimitive - Kinetik
- Ramp_ 14y agoWow, I listen to these 4 constantly. Really helps me get stuff done. Good choices!
- baby 14y agoI always use the soundtrack of the TV show greys anatomy. the series is meh but the music ils always good and diversified
- aaronsnoswell 14y agoI for one don't mind the ambient noise approach. But when I need to get into a coding groove, I chuck on Soma FM - Groove Salad :P
- littledot5566 14y agoRelax Daily. Good for coding, reading and sleeping. http://relaxdaily.net/relaxation-music-instrumentals/ http://relaxdaily.net/relaxation-music-instrumentals/ Here's a mix of most of his previous works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycqF1CWcXg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycqF1CWcXg
- Bjartr 14y agoNot for everyone, but this is what I often program to http://www.di.fm/play/goapsy http://www.di.fm/play/goapsy Found in this reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/comments/6l9t9/best_background_music_for_programming http://www.reddit.com/comments/6l9t9/best_background_music_f...
- jderick 14y agoDJ Shadow, Blockhead, Bonobo
- lysol 14y agoLCD Soundsystem - 45:33. I can always get a good flow on with a little caffeine. Works just as well for running.
- kingnothing 14y agodi.fm is great: try the progressive channel.
- firefoxman1 14y agoI've gotten much more done with this one than anything else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPHEUZbPnw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPHEUZbPnw An hour long of unchanging audio sort of fades into the background so you are unaware of it.
- lifeformed 14y agoBalam Acab - Wander Wonder. Textural, ambient, sparse dub beats, sometimes dark, sometimes uplifting. Full album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH-O8eU1yg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH-O8eU1yg Lifeformed - Fastfall. I made this! It's my first album, I made it for the indie game Dustforce. It's electronic, chill, fakebit (8-bit chiptune sounds with a modern sheen), with some beats. Full album: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/ http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/
- cjh_ 14y agoAnything by Queen :)
- mieubrisse 14y agoI'd strongly recommend any of Cafe del Mar's music 2000's-era music. It's very mellow and ambient, and there's a lot of it.
- shawndumas 14y agowell, shameless self promotion aside, programming was specifically what I composed my own music for: https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/likes https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/likes
- fixedd 14y agoNine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV: http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home
- notmarkus 14y agoIf you have Spotify, I made a playlist that puts me into beast mode: http://open.spotify.com/user/notmarkus/playlist/6pehPUR4xsO5BREjX2E9BX http://open.spotify.com/user/notmarkus/playlist/6pehPUR4xsO5... Note that Port St. Willow's album "Holiday" should come right after Tim Hecker's "Ravedeath, 1972". Holiday isn't on Spotify currently, but it'll be back on in April. If you can find it, give it a listen. On its own, it's great as work music.
- JPKab 14y agoThe fact that you are the only one on here mentioning Tim Hecker is appalling. If I wanna get stuff done, I throw on Tim Hecker's many albums.
- lukev 14y agoWell, I really doubt this will work for you, but as a metalhead I find abstract and atmospheric death or black metal works quite well for me (Lately I've been on an Agalloch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE) kick). Also I find that medium-intensity electronica will put me in the zone - Deadmau5, Justice, etc.