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Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by davedx » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 7:26 PM UTC

Flow wrote: post #55

Ltj Bukem & MC Konrad, good stuff For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVHjZYoq4Q

Horizons still gives me goose bumps listening to it! Such an amazing vocal sample :)

Happily surprised by the amount of people posting dnb on this thread to be honest :)

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by f4stjack » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 7:43 PM UTC

jamroom wrote: post #67

f4stjack wrote: post #66

Feth me, it seems I am the only one who listens to classic heavy metal gods like Iron Maiden and AC/DC while chugging out code...

You're not the only one - Maiden's Powerslave is a regular in my "coding" playlist. That album flat out rocks.

Ha! I agree! And what a coincidence, I was listening to Rime of the Ancient Mariner when I saw your post...

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by there » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 7:52 PM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #18

My current coding playlist is: * Moon OST - Clint Mansell * Donnie Darko OST - Mansell * Inception OST - Hans Zimmer * The Social Network OST - Reznor * Simple Things - Zero 7 * Melody AM - Royskopp * Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good)

Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good)

benn's pale blue dot is a great ambient album to work to.

http://bennjordan.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue-dot

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by bascule » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 7:54 PM UTC

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.

Hell yes Kraftwerk!

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by andolanra » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 8:08 PM UTC

porkbird wrote: post #51

Anyone into contemporary classics? I really enjoy piano and cello music while coding, like Ludovico Einaudi, Brian Crain, Julia Kent, Zoe keating etc.

I have recently become quite fond of Arvo Pärt and other classical minimalist composers, largely because I like the texture of piano and strings with the simplicity of minimalism while I'm working, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vdgZAJVnes

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by matthew-wegner » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 8:31 PM UTC

asksol wrote: post #30

matthew-wegner wrote: post #11

Couple of my favorite artists for concentrating music: e*vax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pUlD79DCvA Geotic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBeWuBBG0gw Xela: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RsdMs-Whlo Murcof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74spJD2oEPg Shlohmo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SokFGXlIHM Tycho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mehLx_Fjv_c

If you mention Xela, you should also mention Yasume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_SdCPLOkP4

Agreed! And there are lots of jumping off places in that list (e*vax is Evan Mast, half of Ratatat, Geotic is Will Wiesenfeld, best known for Baths, etc).

I just want to dump a handful of lesser-known artists to get people started...

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by Flow » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #71

Flow wrote: post #55

Ltj Bukem & MC Konrad, good stuff For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVHjZYoq4Q

Horizons still gives me goose bumps listening to it! Such an amazing vocal sample :) Happily surprised by the amount of people posting dnb on this thread to be honest :)

It's the same for me, especially that song gives me goose bumps and I start thinking about a special part of my past. :)

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by shocks » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

jimminy wrote: post #64

shocks wrote: post #57

I'm a big fan of C418 for programming music: http://c418.org/ I also like the indie game music bundles. I posted this a few days ago but it didn't gain any traction: Game Music Bundle 2! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573416 http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/

Thanks for this, I was late on finding out about the first bundle, and didn't know they had a second one out yet.

You're in luck. "For $5 you can grab the "big ten" soundtrack and albums from the original bundle". :D

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by pjscott » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 10:16 PM UTC

ecaron wrote: post #61

When this was posted 2 weeks ago, I tried to step up and do the hosting with Amazon's Cloudfront. 72 hours and 3TB later, I sadly acknowledged that I didn't have the checkbook size to properly meet the download needs. Since then, @datassette has moved hosting to Dreamhost and they're truly sticking by their unlimited bandwidth policy. So as much as we typically like to point out when DH is down or messes up, I think…

The usual solution to this problem, when you're short on cash and need to push out a lot of gigabytes to a lot of people, is to put up a torrent. They're not just for piracy!

(Fun fact: if you host files on Amazon S3, it will also generate a torrent file and handle the seeding and tracking.)

Re: MusicForProgramming();

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Post by theirixhn » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 10:38 PM UTC

Very nice and relaxing music. It's also nice that there is a podcast. But they could definitely make a simple cue-sheet or track list with song lengths – it is difficult to find a name for current song. Maybe miss of such metadata is a weakness of a podcast but at their site only a single track can be found.