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Ask HN: Favorite Music to Program To?

by flyGuyOnTheSly on 1/11/21, 8:49 PM with 12 comments

• by dpeck on 1/12/21, 1:36 PM

  I’ve found that all the Reznor/Ross collaborations work really well for deep work in general, coding or not.

  The Social Network soundtrack is a favorite to start anytime I’m doing “heads down” work, but most of their catalog fills that need nicely https://music.apple.com/us/artist/trent-reznor-atticus-ross/...

• by exrook on 1/11/21, 11:41 PM

  Liquid drum and bass mixes

  https://youtu.be/YIWFNVb7whk

• by f_kai on 1/12/21, 2:57 PM

  I guess I'm going to be that person, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Ambient_Works_85%E2%8...

  It's the album I keep going back to when I'm in the zone.

• by _5659 on 1/12/21, 6:37 AM

  I submitted this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579216

  I've been into program to music to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music

  If you want indiscernible lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz47h75_FJo

  (Not sure this fits the criteria of 'decent')

  I like long pieces that distort my sense of time and concentration and give texture to the feeling of being in the zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZZ0DYIkaP8

• by helph67 on 1/12/21, 12:45 AM

  The A.B.C Kids digital radio sends this out at night. It's continuous, easy listening background music, mainly classical.. https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/sleep-through/

• by leipert on 1/12/21, 10:46 PM

  I really like PsyTrance and Goa. Search for „Astrix“ or „Ace Ventura“ (artists) + „ozora“ or „boom“ (festivals) on YouTube. I really like the speed of it and if there are lyrics, they are very repetitive / meditation like. Also the sets are quite long.

  If you are in a workplace setting, try to keep the live sets in a background tab, as Goa/PsyTrance Festival recordings might have half naked people in them.

  Edit: Or try to find artists in a genre you like, singing in a foreign language. I really like Korpiklaani, as don’t understand and probably never will understand a word of Finnish.

• by dalmo3 on 1/12/21, 8:03 AM

  Fallujah has been doing the rounds for the last weeks for me. No discernible lyrics at all.

  But if you're not into epic progressive death metal then I recommend di.fm.

• by mkranjec on 1/12/21, 8:05 PM

  Have you tried IDM? Works wonders for me. Here's one artist from my home country that was also featured in Guardian few years ago: Kleemar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_g9wW8iR3E

• by matt_the_bass on 1/15/21, 12:29 AM

  My go to is Club D’Elf. 1/2 morrocan trance 1/2 jam band with an impressive lineup of guests. Hundreds of live shows with professional level recordings on archive.org.

• by _ozde on 1/12/21, 2:29 AM

  I listen to lofi hip hop music playlist in Spotify.

  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0vvXsWCC9xrXsKd4FyS8kM?si=...

• by lioeters on 1/11/21, 10:00 PM

  Anouar Brahem Quartet - Jazz Sous Les Pommiers 2014

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYYEQL72wtg

• by dave_sid on 1/12/21, 1:49 PM

  Boards of Canada?