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Re: Music for Programming

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I used to have MTV playing on the TV in my office when working, but I've now found clubbingtv.com which is essentially 24-7 DJs playing sets in clubs and various venues. It's just a shame they don't play more acid trance.

Did you check di.fm ? They have so many channels. There's one called "oldschool acid"[0] if that's what you're looking for.

[0] https://www.di.fm/oldschoolacid

Re: Music for Programming

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I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

Music with words doesn't destroy my concentration like that, but instrumental music is a lot better to help me focus. Calm instrumental music, specifically. Techno would drive me nuts, but Ambient and adjacent genres tend to work very well.

Re: Music for Programming

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Since people are sharing their playlists, here are a few that I put together and rotate between:

25h+ spacey ambient, very relaxed, almost but not entirely without words

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0tLvg6WcRMc8bn8McRfruK?si=...

12h+ downtempo, no vocals

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/77rLJZoIo7VYjrHWk2gKc7?si=...

7h+ melodic post rock, no vocals

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6DWXAfI1IPtzIVTXcBd1bU?si=...

Re: Music for Programming

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I just quickly scrolled through my collection and here are some random, but fantastic instrumental albums I've used while "in the zone": - Miles Davis: In a Silent Way - Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞ (one of my favourite albums. listen with your best headphones. HD650s are good) - Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Mozart: Requiem (my first proper introduction to cla…

Thanks! You have a really interesting taste in music I think. I just skimmed through every album.

I saved the album from: Tim Hecker, Sunn 0))), Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and Brian Eno

With Mozart and Bill Evans I am familiar.

The Godspeed You! album I found not as straigt forward and distinct as I like my music. But don't take this as proper critique. Even though I hear lots of music, I have no 'intellectual' base to say anything substential about music else than wether it clicks with me or not. For some music I think I get the (an) 'idea' and other music just feels all over the place and I can't get hold of the (an) general idea.

Sleep: Jerusalem I didn't found on spotify. Seems like a very generic name... Are you sure this is the full name of artist and album?

If you have more to share, I'm happy to listen to just a bit more. Don't you go over board, I have other things to do as well ;)

Re: Music for Programming

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I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

I find that music with lyrics is ok as long as it's not in a language that I understand.

So for example, these languages would destroy my cencentration:

- Cantonese

- Mandarin

- English

- French

I'm still ok listening to Japanese music, but I suspect it will soon be a goner because I listen to a lot of Japanese at work nowadays.

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