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Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Alternatively, grooveshark.com for people currently outside of the U.S.

Why outside the U.S.? I'm in the U.S. and it seems to work fine.

Pandora doesn't work outside the US because of copyright difficulties. However, grooveshark doesn't seem to worry too much about this, and as such it's available outside the US.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

This is great btw. Thanks a lot for sharing!

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Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

well said, whale salad. ;)

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Love this, any more recco's?

This is what I code to, when I'm coding for it: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/mix/11997-The%20Coding%20Zone/

For a second I thought the old audiogalaxy was back. A favorite of mine in the late 90's.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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http://musicforprogramming.net/ is much more useful.

Tried it, but it really didn't work for me.

Didn't hate it, but their aesthetic [1] turns out to be totally wrong for me to program to. Instead of droning and textures without rhythm, I need a heavy beat, vocals, and strong melody (or at least prominent and fast arpeggiated synth). Instead of that I tend to listen to di.fm Vocal Trance, if I'm sick of listening to my collection.

90% of coding for me seems to require that I distract most of my brain. When a problem gets really hard I often just turn off the music. I should try listening to MFP under those circumstances and see if it works better then. :)

Regardless: Glad it works for you. Not trying to dis MFP. Different people need different soundtracks.

[1] http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=aesthetic

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Love this, any more recco's?

If you're looking for more mashups, check out Girl Talk, Milkman, and Super Mash Bros. If you're looking for similar electronic music sets, here are a couple I've been digging lately: Kaskade's set from Coachella, soundboard recording. http://www.themusicninja.com/live-set-full-kaskade-coachella... Porter Robinson's BBC Essential Mix - http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/porter-robinson-essential-m... Knife Party's BBC…

Big +1 to Girl Talk. When I listen to Feed The Animals or All Day, I feel like there's nothing I can't achieve. Still hasn't failed me.

Milkman and Super Mash Bros is good too but I just don't get the same feel.

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