Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by AndrewO » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:31 PM UTC

Anything instrumental and epic sounding. Right now my favorites are:

* Explosions in the Sky

* Red Sparowes

* British Sea Power's Man of Aran Soundtrack

I'd also recommend a band called Souvenir's Young America which sounds like the soundtrack to a zombie/western movie.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by ianbishop » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:34 PM UTC

air

boards of canada

burial

caribou

m83

memory tapes

mogwai

mum

ratatat

sigur ros

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by aristus » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:39 PM UTC

Rachmaninoff. Also, look at "pink noise" tapes: rainforests, oceans, all that new-agey crap. It actually works.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by tdm911 » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC

kamme wrote: post #17

Lately I've become a big fan of AIR, they make great instrumental tracks, as well as songs with lyrics. I tend to listen to the soundtrack of the virgin suicides quite a lot. Many people don't like the atmosphere of their music, but I feel as if I get their songs. I also like the soundtrack of donnie darko, the mood is quite unique, haven't discovered it anywhere else. I don't know why but that kind of music doesn't…

Two of my favourites as well. AIR are the perfect 'background music' and i don't get distracted by their lyrics. The Donnie Darko soundtrack is moody and atmospheric.

Also, anything by Sigur Rós. Not because they are a great band, but because they don't sing in English (or Icelandic a lot of the time). I find their music isn't distracting and really enthuses me.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by clawrencewenham » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:55 PM UTC

The Future Sound Of London, especially their old radio sessions

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

#36

Post by kamme » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 9:56 PM UTC

fuzzmeister wrote: post #15

Sahib Teri Bandi by The Derek Trucks Band: http://www.songite.com/#c30f63 (Disclosure: I built Songite a few weekends ago)

OT: some feedback, I'm on a 1200x800 screen and there is a scrollbar that serves no purpose. I changed the margin of #container to margin:50px auto auto; and the scrollbar is gone. Or you could make the top margin like 5% to behave better on bigger screens. Not much else to say except nicely done!

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by zen53 » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 10:02 PM UTC

Thanks for all the great answers HN...inspired by NiallSmart (see comment) I created a playlist of all the music mentioned in this post - it features one track of every artist listed in the comments. Specific track was used when referenced.

spotify:user:zen53:playlist:5JtUZrhOvBV0IqySyhoDwF thanks again!

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by Mr_question » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 10:07 PM UTC

I like any upbeat mowtown or stax records jams.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by adg » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 10:07 PM UTC

I really like stuff without lyrics that's fairly repetitive. Some examples: http://www.songite.com/#c1f21f.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Post by fuzzmeister » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 10:09 PM UTC

kamme wrote: post #36

fuzzmeister wrote: post #15

Sahib Teri Bandi by The Derek Trucks Band: http://www.songite.com/#c30f63 (Disclosure: I built Songite a few weekends ago)

OT: some feedback, I'm on a 1200x800 screen and there is a scrollbar that serves no purpose. I changed the margin of #container to margin:50px auto auto; and the scrollbar is gone. Or you could make the top margin like 5% to behave better on bigger screens. Not much else to say except nicely done!

Thanks for pointing that out.