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Anything by Fluke or Underworld
Fluke is super underrated! I'm always switching between Fluke, Orbital, and Underworld Recently I'm keeping a lot of Orbital's new 30 Something album tracks on repeat
I like citypop too, since I can't understand japanese, it feels familiar without getting distracting.
Sometimes I layer it with rain and turn the music volume down when I need to really isolate outside noise. This creates a baseline noise level with some variation but never enough to distract.
I have been getting into covers as well. Piano covers are generally pleasant and youtube has nice hour+ long mixtape style playlist videos.
Occasionally I also end up finding a genre I like that's been created solely online. A recent example is "dark academia" and I search it with the word "playlist" to get a specific vibe I want. And there's fun playlist title variations too, for example "a classical dark academia playlist for art museum dates" https://youtu.be/idJoHeHPrXA . That playlist has the rain already layered over the music.
Sometimes 1950s era Jazz, trying to follow the lines of improvisation in the background seems to help me when trying to do something new or creative.
If I'm doing something rote, then modern EDM is good enough i.e. Rufus del Sol or similar that is just simple layers of one note melodies, a solid beat and someone wailing on top of it.
Note that I'm unsure whether listening to jazz when trying to do something creative is just a learned response i.e. that's how I set my mind to creative as a shortcut.
Synthwave and retrowave
Second place goes to psychill, and sorts of liquid dnb, jungle and ambients.
I don’t get it how people can program with rock, instrumental, songs, jazz, techno, etc. Way too chatty and/or disturbing.