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Ask YC: Best Hacking Music?
I'm always on the lookout for new music/artists. I suppose many in the YC community have similar taste in music. So, what/who does everybody listen to when they hack?
I tend to stick with classical/techno/anything without words as lyrics usually distract me from the task at hand.
How about you? What are you listening to right now?
- omouse 19y agoThis has been discussed many times before. pg should really include a search bar or link on this site... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026
- sant0sk1 19y agothanks. I will read that thread.
- aristus 19y agoCheck out Rachmaninoff's symphonies, and "pink noise" albums: rainforests, ocean, etc.
- twampss 19y agoI know this wasn't mentioned in the previous threads...check out Magnet - http://www.homeofmagnet.com/ http://www.homeofmagnet.com/ Synthetic folk, great trance-type music when you get in the zone.
- sant0sk1 19y agoThanks twampss. Like what I hear so far.
- fiaz 19y agoHow to search Hacker News: 1) go to Google 2) in the search bar type: <your search terms here> site:ycombinator.com For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=music+hacking+site%3Aycombinator.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=music+hacking+site%3Aycombina...
- stevengg 19y agohttp://thefeelgood.com/ http://thefeelgood.com/
- TrevorJ 19y agoRob Dougan is one of my current favorites. A shame he only has one album out. I'm also digging The London Philharmonics' album "The London Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of Pink Floyd"
- rglovejoy 19y agoYou must be referring to "Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd" performed by the London Philharmonic. It's pretty good, but there was an even better disc that came out around 1989, "Objects of Fantasy: The Music of Pink Floyd" performed by David Palmer (formerly of Jethro Tull) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
- doubleplus 19y agoTrance! (Again!) http://www.di.fm/trance/ http://www.di.fm/trance/ !
- jksmith 19y agoYou got it. DI serves up good stuff. If I hadn't been listening to DI, I probably would have never heard the collection by Shulman - OMG. It's outrageous.
- rplevy 19y agounderground 1960s and 70s psychedelic, modern composers, electroacoustic noise, idigenous folk art, (Joik anyone?), mentally ill street buskers, field recordings, fractal and tesellation sound structures, Heitor Villa-Lobos, evolutionary algorithm -based interactive composition, Roxette, aleatoric compositions (Cage for example), and "The Free Software song" (just kidding about the last one).
- kingnothing 19y agoAs always, I hack to ETN.FM's Progressive Trance stream.
- simianstyle 19y agodaft punk
- nhooper 19y agoaphex twin
- lastone 19y agoeminem is banging
- Dylanfm 19y agoYamato Ensemble -- traditional Japanese music with koto, flute, singing...
- mburns 19y agoanything by Infected Mushroom.
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- Flemlord 19y agoI have a confession. I actually don't listen to anything when I code. I find it all distracting. I'll sometimes put headphones on so people don't bother me, but I never have anything playing.
- mrwizard14 19y agoI tend to listen to music podcasts such as Accident Hash, UC Radio, Indie Radio Chattenooga and Sonic Wallpaper.
- yan 19y agohttp://www.hypem.com http://www.hypem.com
- Glimjaur 19y agoAt the moment there's lots of Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV spinning on iTunes for me. :)
- knv 19y agoThe Humming of Server Fan ;)