Preferably instrumental, anything with lyrics pulls the attention towards it. And preferably something that is not too violent on the ears or too loud (like heavy metal guitar)
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#2Whatever makes you produce dopamine will help get you creative, this is very subjective. But I agree on the lyrics' effect on attention
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#3tabla by Zakir Hussain
flute by Rakesh Chaurasia
music by Hans Zimmer
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#4Currently listening to Officium [1]. For me it both enjoyable and not distracting (lyrics in Latin)
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#5My Spotify playlist for focus: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Rh920TsQIOwpfpXg83XIh?si=...
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#6Synthwave and retrowave
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#7Currently listening to Officium [1]. For me it both enjoyable and not distracting (lyrics in Latin) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officium_(album)
I found this very enjoyable to work to https://youtu.be/_xaj8QSJZ0E
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#8Anything by Fluke or Underworld
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#10Anything 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