I fluctuate between indie-ish stuff and techno type things. I'm not up on my music categories, but bands like Say Hi To Your Mom and spoon.
Also piano music. http://jamendo.com has some great free music, particularly Rob Costlow.
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#62try stars of the lid's "and their refinement of the decline." some of the finest ambient music since eno.
http://www.amazon.com/Their-Refinement-Decline-Explicit/dp/B...
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#63I made a group for Hacker News members to join for last.fm It will create charts and statistics if the group reaches over 15 members. Here is the link: http://www.last.fm/group/Hacker%20News%20%28Ycombinator%29
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#64Oddly enough - game and movie soundtracks. Mostly game though, because it's music designed to be ignored. I knew a coder who listened to the Muppets Christmas Sing-Along on repeat for about 10 hours during a marathon coding session. At about hour 9 she started to feel like she had lost her mind. Edit: I just listened to Zero 7 on pandora, and it's awesome. I think I've found a new favorite.
About game soundtracks: they're also designed to be catchy given very constrained sequencing. On, say, the PS3 or the Wii, you can just have a full, ambient MP3 and nobody will bat an eyelash. But on, say, the NES, you had to make every tone count, just like you had to make every pixel count. This pushed games composers to focus on the core melody, giving the world such memorable tunes as Mario and Zelda (Tetris was just a conversion of a real song, interestingly.)
Of course, after these well-thought-out melodies are born, they can be dressed up all you like. http://ocremix.org/ is the exemplar there.
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#65House music, downtempo chill type.
Avoid music with vocals, or that is too upbeat/danceble type, as it will be hard to concetrate on anything.
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#66Oddly enough - game and movie soundtracks. Mostly game though, because it's music designed to be ignored. I knew a coder who listened to the Muppets Christmas Sing-Along on repeat for about 10 hours during a marathon coding session. At about hour 9 she started to feel like she had lost her mind. Edit: I just listened to Zero 7 on pandora, and it's awesome. I think I've found a new favorite.
Zero 7 are awesome. They have been around for a while. I heard their concert in SF was breathtaking (they came last year).
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#67I used to love happy hardcore, acid jazz, progressive house, and electro metal, but now i mostly listen to electroclash, eurotrash, synthpop and all of the other hipster variations.
Thumbs up for happy hardcore and acid jazz. I love highly active, fast techno. Anything from the breakbeat, big beat, 2-step, hardcore, happy hardcore, gabba, drum & bass, and jungle subgenres. The problem with rap for me is that the lyrics distract my thinking while coding. Other types of electronic music don't keep me energized.
But when reading something more substantial than, say, looking something up in documentation, silence is excellent.
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#68Most anything Orbital, Sasha and John Digweed - Northern Exposure, most NIN remix / single releases, Any Tool (but mostly Lateralus), Enya, Sarah McLachlan - Remixed or Surfacing, sometimes other stuff of hers, Brian Eno, Yoko Kanno, sometimes Audioslave or APC's first albums, Mushroomhead, TCM's Vegas album, and as others have said, glitchy electronic stuff - I'm especially partial to Download's stuff and some other cEvin Key stuff.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't listen to Baroque music while coding. The same brain cells that I'm trying to use for coding get tied up with unweaving the strands of melody.
Yeah I tried baroque but it made my mind wander too. Distractions must die.
That's interesting... I specifically chose baroque vs. other forms of classical music because it is more repetitive. Bach is way easier for me to zone out with than Beethoven. ;)
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#70 - Whatever is on radio 4 (bbc.co.uk/radio4/)
- Jungletrain.com