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Re: Ask HN: Good coding music?

#11
Trance, specifically the weekly "A State of Trance" hosted/mixed by Armin Van Buren. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_State_of_Trance

There are like 600 episodes, each is a 2 hour mix. Great to just turn one on and not fidget around with the next track.

Another one of my favorites is Digitally Imported, di.fm Basically a bunch of different electronic genre stations.

Re: Ask HN: Good coding music?

#15
Big fan of movie and game soundtracks for coding. Regular rotation at the moment consists of Man of Steel, Batman Trilogy, Inception, Mass Effect 3, Skylander Giants and a lot of classical music esp the planets or anything else from civ 4!

Final shout out would be music that Adam Curtis has used in his documentaries such as Power of Nightmares. He uses lots of good modern instrumental pieces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4202789.stm is a starting point.

Re: Ask HN: Good coding music?

#17
DJ sets of artists like Kaskade or Porter Robinson always work for me. I find the key is to find something that doesn't distract you from the work, but is also nice to listen to when you focus on it. I find it really hard to just work when the room is completely silent.

Re: Ask HN: Good coding music?

#18
post #3

I usually like instrumental music, words take my attention away from the code. Mozart, and other classical music is a great background for coding. Other than classical, God Is An Astronaut ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34C41eEpM48 ).

Love that God is an Astronaut! Awesome.
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