I went through a period of listening to zelda soundtracks + rain/storm sounds for hours every day at work. It was very calming and there wasn't much to focus on, which let me focus on my work. Video game soundtracks in general can be excellent programming music because they can be looped infinitely and are designed to be in the background of some other task.
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#12Not sure if its there but I like listening to Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics when programming!
That's the magic of synth! Love the genre.
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#13Some channels I keep coming back to, featuring mostly ambient or low key albums, often from yesteryear. There are many very pleasant ambient Japanese LPs from the 80s that are nice to have on in the background while working while being musically interesting:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/WhenDubsCry/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/user/WestCoastEaglesFan
- https://www.youtube.com/c/TapeCounter/videos
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#14I went through a period of listening to zelda soundtracks + rain/storm sounds for hours every day at work. It was very calming and there wasn't much to focus on, which let me focus on my work. Video game soundtracks in general can be excellent programming music because they can be looped infinitely and are designed to be in the background of some other task.
Zelda & Chill by GameChops is a good one. GameChops has a lot of other lo-fi video game soundtrack covers that are great for programming, in my experience
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#15I went through a period of listening to zelda soundtracks + rain/storm sounds for hours every day at work. It was very calming and there wasn't much to focus on, which let me focus on my work. Video game soundtracks in general can be excellent programming music because they can be looped infinitely and are designed to be in the background of some other task.
I agree! I often listen to music from World of warcraft when coding. I get in a similar grinding mindset I had when I played back in the days. Helps me focus a lot!
This is a nice channel for wow music: https://www.youtube.com/c/Meisio
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#16As a massive house-head and someone who's been involved in the electronic music scene to varying degrees for two decades, I actually find it extremely difficult to listen to music while writing code, because all I actually do is listen to the music, rather than work.
As such, when I feel the need to put my headphones on to drown out external noise, I prefer listening to musique d'ameublement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music)
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#17A couple of my go-tos are Solar Fields and Infected Mushroom. Both are electronic; former is calm/ambient focus, latter is energetic/driving focus. Both have huuuge discographies that you can just put on shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldYxgJQG_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmvPQ0MmiY Solar Fields actually did the Mirror's Edge game soundtracks too, if you've played those. Really nice mix of ambient, al…
For more Psybient in the vein of Solar Fields, it's also worth checking out releases on Ultimae Records (which is the label for some Solar Fields releases). Some of their artists which go well for programming IMO are Scann-Tec, MIKTEK, and Aes Dana.
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#18Some channels I keep coming back to, featuring mostly ambient or low key albums, often from yesteryear. There are many very pleasant ambient Japanese LPs from the 80s that are nice to have on in the background while working while being musically interesting: - https://www.youtube.com/c/WhenDubsCry/videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/WestCoastEaglesFan - https://www.youtube.com/c/TapeCounter/videos
I also like Siberian Ambience, which is smaller but focuses on even more minimal albums: https://www.youtube.com/c/siberianambience/videos
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#19Some channels I keep coming back to, featuring mostly ambient or low key albums, often from yesteryear. There are many very pleasant ambient Japanese LPs from the 80s that are nice to have on in the background while working while being musically interesting: - https://www.youtube.com/c/WhenDubsCry/videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/WestCoastEaglesFan - https://www.youtube.com/c/TapeCounter/videos
I also like Siberian Ambience, which is smaller but focuses on even more minimal albums: https://www.youtube.com/c/siberianambience/videos
Thanks, this is a great channel too.
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