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Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by evilthinker »

I choose the music style according to what I feel like in a given day, but here are some favorites:

Dark Ambient: Lustmord, Gustaf Hildebrand, Robert Rich

"IDM": Aphex Twin(anything choosen from what I have) and Autechre

Metal: Burzum(filosofem), Xasthur, and mostly atmospheric BM

Industrial: Suicide Commando, VNV Nation, SPK

(Fin)NRG: Alek Szahala and Nomic

Classical: Bach, Handel, Liszt and Chopin

Demoscene music: Bitfellas radio

I will generally create a mix of from the above styles in a playlist and listen to it, when it begins to bother me (after some hours) I'll just change music style.

Also sometimes I just get some game CD and listen to the tracks, usually I choose Total Annihilation.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by nuxi »

MikeHamer wrote: post #54
truebosko wrote: post #43

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.

I'll second this. I will also add the following (much smaller) artists to the list: - Balmorhea - Tunturia I've been listening to both of them a lot lately - more so than I have the heavy-weights (as listed above)

Thanks for the tip. Some of my favorites:

Lvmen, Caspian, Kinski, Mogwai

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by apsurd »

jarin wrote: post #57
apsurd wrote: post #50

I like streaming; set it and forget it. http://trancearoundtheworld.com http://mugasha.com http://pandora.com http://grooveshark.com sorry thesixtyone... we used to spend a lot of time together, till the UI change ... =(

Thankfully there is still http://old.thesixtyone.com :)

=D

Thanks!! You just made the end (technically start) of my day! That and having a ASK HN submission that got wonderfully great feedback.

I am thankful for HackerNews. I bet we'd all get along reasonably well offline which is a very very unbelievable thing to say relating to anything involving the internet.

Thanks a lot, have a good day!

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by tomedme »

pizzaman wrote: post #11

same with me, everything with lyrics distracts me. I listen to soma.fm "drone zone", mellow film scores such as revolutionary road, american beauty, monster. Or tycho "past is prologue" is also played a lot... a discussion on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14987/audio-while-program...

I'm very much in love with my 'Global Underground' series; Nick Warren, Dave Seaman are favourites.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by gchucky »

MikeHamer wrote: post #54
truebosko wrote: post #43

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.

I'll second this. I will also add the following (much smaller) artists to the list: - Balmorhea - Tunturia I've been listening to both of them a lot lately - more so than I have the heavy-weights (as listed above)

Thanks for those recs; I hadn't heard of either of them.

You should give The American Dollar a listen; they're a really great postrock band from Queens. And Mercury Program, too, but they're in the heavyweights category, more or less.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by liljimmytables »

It depends on the language. Things like assembler demand Nine Inch Nails, Atari Teenage Riot, and other really fast things. This is possibly due to the fact that I have the attention span of a whippet, and I need to be kept up to speed. C++ lends itself to distorted acid noise in the manner of mu-Ziq, LFO, Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. Possibly because this music is good at dispelling C++ induced rage. Java is pleasant to write with a bit of big band like Nina Simone or Fred Astaire (this is probably more to do with the fact that I was into that sort of stuff when I first learned Java than because there might be any relation between Java and big band). Other languages on request :)

On a similar note, does anyone else have a favourite drink for late-night hacking? Again, Java is quite red-winey. Assembler is vodka and mixer. Electronics work demands a good ale.

Hello HN. delurk

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by rbxbx »

evilthinker wrote: post #61

I choose the music style according to what I feel like in a given day, but here are some favorites: Dark Ambient: Lustmord, Gustaf Hildebrand, Robert Rich "IDM": Aphex Twin(anything choosen from what I have) and Autechre Metal: Burzum(filosofem), Xasthur, and mostly atmospheric BM Industrial: Suicide Commando, VNV Nation, SPK (Fin)NRG: Alek Szahala and Nomic Classical: Bach, Handel, Liszt and Chopin Demoscene music:…

yay for IDM and kvlt black metal.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by slavingia »

almost wrote: post #26

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668138 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378

Tastes change.

Re: Ask HN: Music while coding

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Post by motters »

I am the same, and the effect of music on the productivity of workers has been known for a long time. However, music which is primarily focused on lyrics or just listening to speech (eg. audio books) can be quite disruptive, and in most cases I find that this reduces my productivity. I think this is because when I'm writing software I'm probably also using the same language areas of the brain which are triggered when listening to speech.

Also, it's well established that speech and singing are handled by different brain areas, so do not necessarily conflict.

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