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Post by philjones88 »

Some of my favourite programming music:

Artist: The Glitch Mob

Daft Punk: Tron Sound Track, Tron legacy reconfigured

Particularly with music from The Glitch Mob I find my focus is more intense and I only break my current activity when the music finishes. Need to find more music that gets my mind in the zone like that...

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Post by dekz »

i_s wrote: post #12

The Tron Soundtrack by Daft Punk is amazing for programming.

My playlist contains both the Daft Punk Legacy OST and the TRON: Legacy R3C0NF1GUR3D[1] album which contains various artists remixing the Tron Legacy album.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Tron-Legacy-Reconfigured/dp/B004UOE7VA...

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Post by dekz »

I find myself listening to a lot of ambient/drone music while programming lately. Previously it was more upbeat with Daft Punk Legacy and Reconfigured. I feel I don't want to be concentrating on the music, but am comforted by having talk/silence removed.

   Aerosol - All that is solid melts into air
   Loscii
   NASA voyager recordings - Symphony of the planets
   Toe

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Post by buro9 »

For classical I like Bach symphonies.

But usually, I find myself incredibly productive when I listen to house music. My recent discovery has been Maceo Plex and the album "Life Index".

Maceo Plex merges the tracks into a continuous mix, roughly 128bpm, and once you skip track 1 (a dialogue), the music flows smoothly for a good 90 minutes.

Beyond that, I've always liked Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" for programming to.

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Post by enb »

I listened to the Com Truise mix while programming the other day. It was too distracting, as the music kept changing every 2 or so minutes. Instead I prefer silence, or the next closest thing, which is the kind of music that really plays with your sense of time. E.g.

9 Beet Stretch Mirror/Mimir (and other Christoph Heemann works) Charlemagne Palestines The Necks

I won't bother providing links, as the commonality with these artists is that their pieces are long (and in the case of the first one, very long), so you probably won't find any samples of this music that is indicative of the effect of the whole thing.

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Post by chunkyslink »

mrdoob2 wrote: post #21
chunkyslink wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm biting my tongue right now, trying very hard to stay within the site rules. Its not even a very good link. 4 mediocre playlists. Big deal. Ive been collecting electronic music for 15 years and this trance style music is quite boring and formulaic. The web is awash with much better mixes than these all done for free by professionals. Here are two you can subscribe to in iTunes (weekly podcasts) http://www.resident…

I disagree. Datassette and Com Truise are seriously good music producers themselves. And I think both of them and Sunjammer have very good taste and listen a lot of music to be able to put together this kind of compilations. Pretty sure you can't find most of what they listen on iTunes. Matter of taste. Keep that in mind and you'll become more respectful.

I listened to all of them and it was commercial tripe. Keep that in mind.

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Post by pinchyfingers »

buro9 wrote: post #35

For classical I like Bach symphonies. But usually, I find myself incredibly productive when I listen to house music. My recent discovery has been Maceo Plex and the album "Life Index". Maceo Plex merges the tracks into a continuous mix, roughly 128bpm, and once you skip track 1 (a dialogue), the music flows smoothly for a good 90 minutes. Beyond that, I've always liked Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" for programming to.

I absolutely cannot listen to house music and work. As soon as I hear any kind of House I start dancing. I find it nearly impossible to listen to any kind of music and try to focus on working, but House is the worst, it invades my brain and body.

I do however, listen to tech-house or funky house tracks whenever I need to take a break from work. For whatever reason, house music makes me incredibly happy and energized.

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