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Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by drx »

tkahn6 wrote: post #39
drx wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Can you list yours that I haven't listed already? One can never have enough. Edit: also, yeah. I thought my combo was pretty rare.

Justice, Digitalism, and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Hypnotic Brass Ensemble isn't strictly electronica but their music is really cool (no words too). http://vimeo.com/1418890 I have a Ratatat station and Justice station on Pandora which I've tuned individually over the past year.

Great.

I'm pretty much an omnivore when it comes to music... I'll listen to anything I like; there's hip-hop, movie/game scores, pop, rock, etc. in my playlists.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by truebosko »

Try some post-rock:

- Tortoise

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Thee Silver Mt. Zion

- This Will Destroy You

- Do Make Say Think

- Explosions in the Sky

.. To name a few

Very melodic, quiet, soothing, but also explosive at times.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by albertzeyer »

ErrantX wrote: post #37
drx wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Can you list yours that I haven't listed already? One can never have enough. Edit: also, yeah. I thought my combo was pretty rare.

I mix heavy metal and classical. Which usually raises eyebrows.

Same here (sometimes). Or even some mixed genre bands. You know Apocalyptica? There are also some similar bands (don't remember names right now, check out via Lastfm or so).

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by daeken »

mark_h wrote: post #35

I'm a big fan of Zoe Keating for coding music, and as a bonus she recently switched to bandcamp so there's quite a lot of it streaming: http://music.zoekeating.com/ Quite a lot of layers to concentrate on, but for some reason it also just works to get me in the zone.

+1 for Zoe Keating. I first heard of her about 4 years ago, when she opened for California Guitar Trio in a tiny litttle church in San Diego. One of the best performances I've heard. If you get the chance to see her live, absolutely don't pass it up.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by leftnode »

mrtron wrote: post #19
126 wrote: post #17

Massive Attack Portishead

Massive Attack discography is my current working music.

Absolutely, Collected is a great collection of their best work, and Mezzanine is great as well.

Surprisingly, another piece of music that's great to listen to is the soundtrack from the movie Mr. Brooks with Kevin Costner. It's great for coding.

This guy did the soundtrack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramin_Djawadi

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by kaens »

jonny_noog wrote: post #29

I'm often preferring silence these days, but when I do feel like tunes, I like stuff that's doesn't tear my attention away from what I'm doing. The Aphex Twin: Analogue Bubble Bath Analogue Bubble Bath 2 Analogue Bubble Bath 3 Analogue Bubble Bath 3.1 Analogue Bubble Bath 4 Analogue Bubble Bath 5 Selected Ambient Works Also, Trace Nico and Speedy J.

Try some Boards of Canada

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by kunley »

Classics: Beethoven, Mozart

Ambient and slow electronics but transparent ones which don't seem too psychedelic or w/ hard feelings, as they easy distract and 'sell' you their emotional setting when you really need to focus instead. So I'd exclude things like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, while including artists like Biosphere, Carbon Life Forms, early Orb.

If you're into harder tones I really appreciate stuff like ACDC and Iron Maiden while working - they're quite energetic but not overwhelming like harder metal.

Silence is also very good, esp. if you can hear sound of the trees, waves or whatever nature is outside.

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