For me, the only genre that reliably works is "minimal" music, like stuff by Steve Reich[1] or Gas[2]. My definition of this genre would be music with no lyrics

For me, the only genre that reliably works is "minimal" music, like stuff by Steve Reich[1] or Gas[2]. My definition of this genre would be music with no lyrics that has highly repetitive structures (differentiating it from "ambient" music, which I find too sleepy to be invigorating). [1]: Music for 18 Musicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c [2]: Koenigsforst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehNGoyMf9kU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehNGoyMf9kU