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i usually stream psytrance, works well for some reason :)
I went through a long Shpongle phase about a year and half ago. Great coding music, if you don't mind the heavy psychedelic feel.
My go-to artist is Zoe Keating (layered cello, and on bandcamp as an added bonus: http://music.zoekeating.com/ ). She's also quite interesting to follow: she's heavily into twitter, and is quite open about her profits, dealings with labels, etc. Otherwise though, vocal-less trance is usually pretty effective. I love all the recommendations these threads bring up -- thanks everyone!
This is wonderful; thank you for the link. Just bought the download. :) I've recently been hooked on 41 Strings, a short vocal-less composition by Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). He's performed it live in a bunch of places, but it's available for download here: http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/download-nick-zinners...
My absolute favourite album to code to would actually be the Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk, but I've also spent the last few years at uni listening to http://www.prettylightsmusic.com/ while I code: his albums are all available for free/donation, and the genre is kind of down-tempo electronic. There's the occaisonal vocal sample, but I've found it doesn't distract me from work. Endtroducing by DJ Shadow is also…
Made a Pandora station seeded from the artists in all the mixes. http://www.pandora.com/#!/stations/play/738121268334091862
I really wish Pandora was in my country too. SSH tunneling is too expensive.
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"melodramatic, over-produced, formulaic and not forward-thinking music" Haha. I do see much of that. Although I can't say it's always bad. What's your take on this track? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U80l-YzcGsQ Liking this stuff you linked. I know what you mean by some music being too attention-grabbing to listen to while coding though.
I don't know, it's compelling and I do have soft spot for this kind of stuff, but I find it as "melodramatic, over-produced [and] formulaic" as anything on Anjuna. Sometimes I'm in the mood for that, but it doesn't satisfy me at all intellectually. It's like candy: tastes good while you're eating it, but doesn't feed the body like food or the soul like a warm cup of tea. I think in this analogy, programming music sho…
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Trance/Ambient stuff drives me nuts. For the longest time it jaded my view of electronic music because I thought it defined it. I prefer faster beats, well structured complex melodies a la Skrillex http://soundcloud.com/skrillex/sets . The first few listens might be a little distracting but once I know the songs I find myself typing like I'm playing the song with my keyboard.
While I'm not that fond on the Trance/Ambient combination, there is out there trance with faster beats and more complex melodies (albeit not sure if we commonly share what more complex means). Take a sample playlist of mine http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Trance/63694608