Surprised nobody posted this yet.
And if you were to search this up, what would you type?
Lofi beats to study to
lofi hip hop on YouTube.
Chilled cow
Doom
Depends on how much brain capacity I need. When I need to actually think, it has to be instrumental. So game soundtracks, classical music etc. Stellaris is one soundtrack I quite like for thinking. When it’s something I have to think really hard about, it’s music off though.
Otherwise, when I’m working on a repetitive, brainless task, it’s whatever I’m in the mood for. Metal, country, j-pop, post-punk… could be anything really.
Video game and movie soundtracks. Ambient electronic and IDM. Trance and Psychedelic Trance. All without vocals. It helps me focus on work.
Ambient is pretty good for work
Tried taking your advice. Turns out Ambien is not the same thing. If anyone is hiring hmu
None. Music would be a distraction for me.
I have an instrumental playlist for this because lyrics distract me.
Tangerine Dream. The soundtrack for my programming life.
Fabulous. Did the soundtrack to Legend.
And miracle mile and a bunch more
Yes. I did a small wiki search and they’re still going and crazy prolific!
It’s all new people now sadly Edgar passed just a few years ago. But the new troupe studied and played with prior TD for years and very much has the same vibe
Their whole catalogue from 1960s to now is a perfect soundtrack for a thinking person’s life
Silence for studying.
I have a playlist set up to listen to full albums at random. Today was
- Motorpsycho: Timothy’s Monster
- Samsara Blues Experiment: Waiting for the Flood
- Math the Band: Don’t Worry
- Cymande: Cymande
- Minsk: With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
- Common: Be
Anything goes, I just hate having to stop the tunes when I have to jump on a call
Instrumentals.
I need it to not be distracting, so no vocals in a language I comprehend, or I need to have listened to the song a dozen times already.
And then I need something upbeat to keep me motivated, so 8-bit music is high up the list, overly epic orchestral music also always works, but at like 3 o’clock in the morning, nothing hits like instrumental classical music.
My favorite:
https://ambientsleepingpill.com/Supports, rather than distracts, my thoughts.
Slightly more varied:
https://ambientmodern.com/Peppier still:
https://amambient.com/Streaming links are provided in menu. Spotify links are there as well.
An eclectic mix:
I’d paste the entire list if the android app had an export function.
I like putting on DJ sets at work. Book Club Radio has some absolute bangers. Pretty much any one from Tinzo or Jojo are good.
Hor has some good DJs on. I love Tigerhead. Some of the Bogota ones were great.
Boiler room also has some good ones. The one from Rebecca Black was actually really good.
I put on any number of those 10 hours of Halo Theme/Terminator theme/Interstellar theme that are on YouTube.
Generally movie scores and things that can be background music.
