For me nothing beats 90s ambient dnb for coding. There's something about drum and bass that really gets me in flow.
Also Big Beat, for me. Crystal Method's Vegas reaches into my brain and flips the time to code switch.
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#32For me nothing beats 90s ambient dnb for coding. There's something about drum and bass that really gets me in flow.
I used to have bassdrive on. So good.
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#33This seems focused on one very particular taste in music of droning semi-random lo-fi synthesizers. I find this unlistenable without any kind of percussion.
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#34For me nothing beats 90s ambient dnb for coding. There's something about drum and bass that really gets me in flow.
Definitely my cuppa tea too :) https://m.youtube.com/@arcologies
Yoooo thanks for the rec this is spot on up my alley.
You might also like mood indigo on SoundCloud, mix of house and DnB been a solid programming session soundtrack for me over the last few years.
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#35minecraft music is peak and takes all :)
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#36I'm well aware that I'm in the minority, but I have never been able to focus on anything - especially programming - other than in absolute, total silence.
(Yes, I'm an only child.)
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#37Don't laugh, but for me, it's Abba. Their entire discography is ~3 hours which is how long I can maintain peak concentration. Their songs are consistently good so that I don't need to skip a song, but not too good that I would stop working and start listening. Plus I've never heard Abba song in any good movie so it doesn't remind me scenes from a movie I would want to rewatch. Of course I don't listen to it every day…
For real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.
Agree about the lyrics. Phillip Glass is one of my favorites for flowing. His style usually involves a lot of repetition, which I find meditative.
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For real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.
Agree about the lyrics. Phillip Glass is one of my favorites for flowing. His style usually involves a lot of repetition, which I find meditative.
Steve Reich is my favourite of the minimalists. Electric counterpoint and Music for 18 Musicians are regulars in the line up.
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#39I personally love my classic/progressive rock and am happy to listen to it while working. It seems odd to limit music for programming to only lo-fi.
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#40For me nothing beats 90s ambient dnb for coding. There's something about drum and bass that really gets me in flow.
You thinking like Good Looking Records stuff like Artemis? Love it.