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Lofi beats with nice bass to listen while you code, study or work
- billfruit 5y agoRecently my work playlist have been Philip Glass. The repeating structure of his work makes it unobtrusive, and he wrote such large quantity of music, that there is always more. Came to explore his music only after seeing a recent article on him, in HN.
- devilduck 5y agoGood choice. See also: Steve Reich
- ofou 5y agoGreat recommendation! Never heard of him before!
- nerdponx 5y agoIt's interesting, because I agree that stuff like this is good work music, but it's not something I would ever put on for normal listening.
- yojo 5y agoBoth Peals albums are really solid for focus: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eOmGaF7cvbx9hw6rgBqYO https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eOmGaF7cvbx9hw6rgBqYO Also Continuous Portrait: https://open.spotify.com/album/51QtuRQyWyidnzs3ZNVue7 https://open.spotify.com/album/51QtuRQyWyidnzs3ZNVue7 And the Fez soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/6QtCv5E76lUVbXfUFZxLuH https://open.spotify.com/album/6QtCv5E76lUVbXfUFZxLuH Going back further, some electronic instrumental is also good, Boards of Canada, the first Mum album (yesterday was dramatic, today is okay), Hiroshi Yoshimura, Mort Garson There were also a bunch of 90s/2000/ instrumental post rock acts like Do Make Say Think, Explosions in the Sky, Tortoise, Fridge, etc that can be good work music.
- gonewest 5y agoTycho also works for me when I’m in that sort of mood.
- shimonabi 5y agoIt won't work for me, because I hate being interrupted by ads on Spotify. I'm anti-subscription. I only subscribe to basic home utilities.
- websap 5y agoI’m anti paying for entertainment. I’m sure you use YouTube with an Adblocker and think it’s your right.
- bm3719 5y agoNice to see other people out there with this life philosophy. Thought I was the only one. Paying for entertainment always seemed "wrong" somehow. That includes paying for it with attention, like watching commercials or enduring sponsorships on YouTube. Note that this isn't the same as saying I'm entitled to the output of professional entertainers for free.
- wfme 5y agoOOI how do you reconcile not paying for entertainment while also wanting to supporting professional entertainers?
- bm3719 5y agoI'm not sure the degree to which I want to support professional entertainers as they currently exist in most cases. As I said in another reply, I'd rather it worked more like FOSS does. Do FOSS advocates want to support the professional developers at MS, EA, and Blizzard? Most are probably ambivalent about them at best.
- dchuk 5y agoHow can this statement: “Note that this isn't the same as saying I'm entitled to the output of professional entertainers for free.” Logically coexist with this: “Paying for entertainment always seemed "wrong" somehow. That includes paying for it with attention, like watching commercials or enduring sponsorships on YouTube.” I’m being serious. Stuff costs money to make, seems logical that somehow compensation can be acquired for creative work somehow.
- adamhowell 5y agoThanks for sharing! For Apple Music users I've duplicated this playlist here: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/lofi-beats/pl.u-Zm4Girz7Z1 https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/lofi-beats/pl.u-Zm4Girz7...
- ofou 5y agoA proper credit wouldn't hurt though.
- adamhowell 5y agoOf course. I added credit and link to the playlist in the description once I finished moving all the songs over.
- hug 5y agoFor those who use Apple Music and like this genre but have yet to run into it, there's an Apple-curated playlist called "BEATstrumentals" which is mostly lofi-beats-to-whatever-to.
- ryantgtg 5y agoLofi beats are nice and all, but honestly I’m able to focus best with black metal. It’s oddly relaxing. Just a solid wall of noise, with no chance of understanding the words. It’s what I listened to all through grad school, and back when I had to work in an office. Such as: Leviathan - X (demo) Krallice - esp first four albums Yellow Eyes - anything Ustalost Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light
- ofou 5y agoOne of my closest friend is also a metal listener and I admire him. The rhythms are so complex to chill to me, but I deeply respect the genre.
- nerdponx 5y agoCertain kinds of black metal in particular can have a hypnotic or even psychedelic quality. The songs tend to be relatively long and repetitive. Guitar riffs are often tremelo picking, drum parts are often "blast beats", and vocals might have a lot of reverb and are generally unintelligible, so it all kind of smears out into a wash of noise. This stuff is a niche within a niche within a niche, but it's very distinctive and very different from the "aggressive" sound in most other styles of metal. It also goes back to the early days of the style. Check out the Mayhem song "Freezing Moon" and the Darkthrone song "Transylvanian Hunger" for classic examples. The one downside of black metal is just how many bands and individuals are either loosely or directly related to or affiliated with white power, neo-fascis, or just plain racism. Finding a new band (mostly from Europe) tends to be a "are these guys Nazis?" dice roll. The answer usually isn't obviously "yes", but it's less often obviously "no" than one would like. It doesn't help that there's a fine line between being "edgy" for the sake of being edgy and actually being a Nazi.
- ryantgtg 5y agoThe rabm subreddit is helpful for identifying non-fascist bands. Have you heard the surf rock versions of Freezing Moon and Transylvanian Hunger? They’re great!
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- sebastianconcpt 5y agoI do have my favorite selection for coding. But lately nothing better than Progressive Deep House or Melodic Techno. For truly special moments I need Michael McCann work on Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Total masterpiece. If I have to solve really hard problems, I need no sounds. Maybe even noise cancellation with absolutely nothing but my "voice" in my mind.
- ofou 5y agoto me, it's easier to concentrate with music, but with no lyrics. I'll check your references, not in my radar yet.
- sebastianconcpt 5y agoOh great point! I forgot to mention that. Is very important for coding that music should not have lyrics. Interestingly, I found it can be fine to have some lyrics if I'm coding things that are easy to code. I guess cognitive load is way higher when you're trying to design in your mind how to code a solution and some dude/girl is melodically whining about her little drama hahaha. Just figured too that, for example, no lyrics but agitated guitars also won't go well. What I need is the opposite of adrenaline, some kind of serenity where the mind can expand on its own. So I'm kind of surprised that I can do that with some melodic techno. Interesting.
- latchkey 5y agoSpotify is a constant reminder that my browser (Brave) doesn't work with it because of a broken DRM requirement.
- jedberg 5y agoThese are nice, but I need something much faster. These songs would be good for putting me to sleep though. :)
- ofou 5y agoI always mix them with black coffee, so dunno haha
- travisgriggs 5y agoNice music. For relax and chill, but not coding for me. Infected Mushroom and uptempo piano concertos are my goto coding music these days.
- ofou 5y agoChopin with everything seems a good mix overall
- senectus1 5y agoI prefer anything with funk and melody. I enjoy Faith no More, Tool, Florence and the Machine, Prince etc
- bitlax 5y agoTrue productivity comes from mallwave. https://youtu.be/FZUfiW3W1KY https://youtu.be/FZUfiW3W1KY