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Jazzanova
Old Blue Note Jazz stuff
Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations (1. version 1955)
Bach Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier)
Minimal Electronica
Daft Punk/ Justice/ Etienne de Crecy (French Electro)
Drum n' Bass (old Roni Size stuff - New Forms/ V Label)
almost forgot: Giles Peterson's monthly podcasts
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I'll just put my list here while I'm at it:
-anything trance, mainly Tiesto
-Caribou (Manitoba)
-Architecture in Helsinki
-Frou Frou
-The Faint
-world music - no artists in particular as I just listen to last.fm radio channels.
Shpongle, Bluetech, Entheogenic, Phutureprimitive
A lot of Dubstep:
XeNMaSTA, Cookie Monsta, Bassnectar, 16Bit, Logik
Ambient space music:
Steve Roach, (quite a few here, too lazy to look em up)
Classical Guitar:
Jesse Cook, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Zabuca, Linstead
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This one I think is an interestingly specific question. I'm not upvoting it, but I'm not flagging it, either: It might lead to interesting answers. Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians does it for me. It's a beautiful, pulsating piece, with every movement focusing on a single chord, with no progressions for minutes at a time. It's one of the most unique classical pieces I've ever heard, and it gets my mind in a relax…
You might find some other Reich tunes equally powerful, then. Among the best I've found for programming: Electric Counterpoint, Tehillim [Original ECM recording], You Are (Variations), Eight Lines (the re-instrumented version of Octet), and Music For A Large Ensemble. (Reich has also written some wonderful music that I find harder to listen to in a programming context, including the landmark Different Trains [try the…
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You might find some other Reich tunes equally powerful, then. Among the best I've found for programming: Electric Counterpoint, Tehillim [Original ECM recording], You Are (Variations), Eight Lines (the re-instrumented version of Octet), and Music For A Large Ensemble. (Reich has also written some wonderful music that I find harder to listen to in a programming context, including the landmark Different Trains [try the…
Also check out Terry Reiley...
A lot of Psybient music: Shpongle, Bluetech, Entheogenic, Phutureprimitive A lot of Dubstep: XeNMaSTA, Cookie Monsta, Bassnectar, 16Bit, Logik Ambient space music: Steve Roach, (quite a few here, too lazy to look em up) Classical Guitar: Jesse Cook, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Zabuca, Linstead
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.
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