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Post by djbolivia »

emillon wrote: post #8
ctdonath wrote: post #5

Music possessing these qualities can often provide just the right amount of interest to occupy the parts of your brain that would otherwise be left free to wander and lead to distraction during your work. Finally - someone who recognizes that there's a curious & busy part of the brain which must be kept preoccupied during complex tasks, and mixes music just for that purpose. "Trance" music podcasts are a great approx…

> Finally - someone [...] mixes music just for that purpose. DJ Bolivia has been quite known for his "Music to code by" mixes, I definitely recommend them. http://djbolivia.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-to-code-by-volum...

Emillon, thanks. Some of those Music To Code By mixes have a fair amount of vocals though. I think nowadays, a lot of coders would prefer my weekly radio show at www.chma.fm.

The drawback with the radio show is that each episode has a 25 to 60 second promo tape at the intro, but after that it's all music, no advertising, and I don't do voiceovers. I'd recommend episodes starting at about #070 - I was still trying to find a groove in the first seventy, and I only stopped doing an intro voiceover in the early 70's.

They're also on SoundCloud (I just archived them all starting a few weeks ago) so you can skip around easily if you need to: http://www.soundcloud.com/djbolivia

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Post by emillon »

djbolivia wrote: post #181
emillon wrote: post #8

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> Finally - someone [...] mixes music just for that purpose. DJ Bolivia has been quite known for his "Music to code by" mixes, I definitely recommend them. http://djbolivia.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-to-code-by-volum...

Emillon, thanks. Some of those Music To Code By mixes have a fair amount of vocals though. I think nowadays, a lot of coders would prefer my weekly radio show at www.chma.fm. The drawback with the radio show is that each episode has a 25 to 60 second promo tape at the intro, but after that it's all music, no advertising, and I don't do voiceovers. I'd recommend episodes starting at about #070 - I was still trying to…

Nice, I'll check those out !

I listened to the first episodes but for some reason I preferred your former mixes. Let's see how the latest episodes are doing :)

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Post by djbolivia »

emillon wrote: post #182
djbolivia wrote: post #181

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Emillon, thanks. Some of those Music To Code By mixes have a fair amount of vocals though. I think nowadays, a lot of coders would prefer my weekly radio show at www.chma.fm. The drawback with the radio show is that each episode has a 25 to 60 second promo tape at the intro, but after that it's all music, no advertising, and I don't do voiceovers. I'd recommend episodes starting at about #070 - I was still trying to…

Nice, I'll check those out ! I listened to the first episodes but for some reason I preferred your former mixes. Let's see how the latest episodes are doing :)

They are definitely a bit darker, more tech-house. I guess the style changes within each show, but from show to show it's consistent. The first half of each show is generally low-key tech-house, but then I start speeding it up a small amount and using more "busy" progressive house tracks later in the episode. But not many vocals in each. Some people will like these better (the sound quality is also better), but some coders will definitely prefer the six older "Music To Code" By mixes.

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Post by daydream »

msutherl wrote: post #142
BurnZeZ wrote: post #139

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As a musician, I love it. That's probably half due to roughly 70% of my songs ending up as trance by the time I'm done though. What is it about it that you dislike exactly?

Let me be clear: I have no issue with trance as a form (highly repetitive 140 bpm 4/4 dance music). But trance music as a scene since the mid-90's has been characterized by melodramatic, over-produced, formulaic and not forward-thinking music. It's akin to being a filmmaker and disliking plotless Hollywood action films. These days there's a lot of innovative and interesting dance music coming out in the wake of dub s…

I'm 7 days late and I doubt you'll ever see this, but thank you for that Andy Stott youtube vid. I'm a big fan of the folks doing more fractured/cracked/drone stuff (Burial/Gas/Basic Channel/etc), I've never heard of Stott, and this stuff is easily up there with the best.

Bravo sir or madam!

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