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Music for Programming
- dijksterhuis 6mo ago<3 music for programming some personal favourites: - https://musicforprogramming.net/seventyone https://musicforprogramming.net/seventyone - https://musicforprogramming.net/fiftyseven https://musicforprogramming.net/fiftyseven - https://musicforprogramming.net/fortysix https://musicforprogramming.net/fortysix
- quinnjh 6mo agoThis site is a gem that has accompanied me on many spikes in the last year :) datasette's original music is top tier too. cognitively stimulating but not attention stealing.
- klondike_klive 6mo agoHave you listened to his "business funk" mixes? Too stimulating for work (for me) but so much fun. In my head it's the soundtrack to me striding through an open plan office barking nonsense business jargon.
- doctorhandshake 6mo agoAgreed datasette is critically slept on
- lelandfe 6mo agoFlechte is a regular play of mine https://youtu.be/-3HUn6wotvg https://youtu.be/-3HUn6wotvg
- nakedneuron 6mo agoFor me, the Bach of electronic music..
- dvh 6mo agoDon't laugh, but for me, it's Abba. Their entire discography is ~3 hours which is how long I can maintain peak concentration. Their songs are consistently good so that I don't need to skip a song, but not too good that I would stop working and start listening. Plus I've never heard Abba song in any good movie so it doesn't remind me scenes from a movie I would want to rewatch. Of course I don't listen to it every day, only when I really need to, most daily programming tasks can be done with any music.
- hmokiguess 6mo agoABBA is amazing
- matt_daemon 6mo agoIt would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA
- interroboink 6mo ago> Don't laugh I laugh (: But good for you, whatever works. Personally, I can't do music with much lyrics or narrative; I find it distracting. But to each their own!
- olivierestsage 6mo agoMamma Mia soundtrack also works well \m/
- smoyer 6mo agoFor real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.
- alexhans 6mo agoI vary a lot but when I do classical music Mozart has occupied quite a lot of my stats, in particular a clarinet concerto by Katherine Lucy [1] and also things like Beethoven's 6th (pastoral, it's beautifully featured in Fantasia) or Grieg's morning mood. - [1] https://open.spotify.com/album/1R6rh9My8CTK4DqZorJR0V?si=3Ctn94z7RCWy2emoktVP7Q https://open.spotify.com/album/1R6rh9My8CTK4DqZorJR0V?si=3Ct... If you have specific song/interpretation recommendations I'd love to hear them.
- do_it_simpler 6mo agoThis sight got me through many projects in college :)
- Lyngbakr 6mo agoI recently discovered Lorn and have been mainlining his back catalogue ever since whilst working. Thoroughly interesting and immersive yet not distracting.
- supliminal 6mo agoI remember downloading music from the hacking e-show “The Scene” way back when - must have been late 2000s? Some great music in there like Newborn Butterflies if I remember the name right. It was nice background music in the show and I’d put it on from time to time.
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- gurst 6mo agoThis is music for programming: https://velato.net/ https://velato.net/ (or music as programming??)
- braincat31415 6mo agoIron Maiden for me :)
- donkeybeer 6mo agoAlso Rage (germany), etc
- braincat31415 6mo agoDidn't know about this one, it's excellent. Thanks.
- tmtvl 6mo agoMetal for me as well, though I prefer more of the screamy-scream variety (Summoning, Judas Iscariot, Darkthrone,...).
- mihaitodor 6mo agoTry Agalloch :)
- tmtvl 6mo agoThanks, I'll see if I can find them on Bandcamp or 7Digital.
- capnchaos 6mo agoFor me nothing beats 90s ambient dnb for coding. There's something about drum and bass that really gets me in flow.
- comprev 6mo agoDefinitely my cuppa tea too :) https://m.youtube.com/@arcologies https://m.youtube.com/@arcologies
- nop_slide 6mo agoYoooo thanks for the rec this is spot on up my alley. You might also like mood indigo on SoundCloud, mix of house and DnB been a solid programming session soundtrack for me over the last few years. https://on.soundcloud.com/5HzXSAKAdM41bxIvdp https://on.soundcloud.com/5HzXSAKAdM41bxIvdp
- kstrauser 6mo agoAlso Big Beat, for me. Crystal Method's Vegas reaches into my brain and flips the time to code switch.
- tuzemec 6mo agoAlso Fluke - Risotto. Similar vibes.
- yowayb 6mo agoI used to have bassdrive on. So good.
- clearing 6mo agoYou thinking like Good Looking Records stuff like Artemis? Love it.
- jandrewrogers 6mo agoArtemis/Shogun are one of my major go-tos.
- gbertasius 6mo agoI love progressive techno for this. No vocals and sounds are in the lower frequency range. Easy to tune out.
- eMPee584 6mo agothen you'll adore this "deep progressive techno" mix playlist by artist "Dub Element" with 50 hours of the finest rolling deep pumping oldschool rave techno. Also does d'n'b and dub techno.. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAb7rS-Wvyr0AZdUlgaCgpP-HORLlUZYX https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAb7rS-Wvyr0AZdUlgaCg...
- olivierestsage 6mo agoSwans is good for programming. And good for gnosis.
- frereubu 6mo agoI occasionally have I Am A Tower on a loop when I really need to break through some kind of mental / coding block.
- steveBK123 6mo agoLook up Dub Techno.
- eMPee584 6mo agoawesome for coding! my fav stations with dub techno chan: Mabu Beatz from Germany, Radio Caprice from Russia & Radio Schizoid from India. Last one has an excellent chillout chan as well, even though the track metadata has been half broken for years (UTF16BE BOM ftw).. https://www.radio-browser.info/search?name=dub%20techno https://www.radio-browser.info/search?name=dub%20techno
- WD-42 6mo agoShoutout to SomaFM's Defcon Radio which has been my go-to programming music for years now. Not too dissimilar to the stuff found on this site. https://somafm.com/defcon/ https://somafm.com/defcon/
- usefulcat 6mo agoI love the music on defcon but could really do without the sporadic interruptions. At first it was ok but gets old after a while.
- vaylian 6mo agoRemember your 3-2-1. Personally, I still like these defcon sound bites, even though I've heard them plenty of times. They are part of the atmosphere that the stream wants to create.
- jimmydddd 6mo agoI used to work to SomaFM all the time. Then took a break I guess? Then somehow totally forgot it even existed. So thanks for the reminder.
- vlachen 6mo agoI find that the Secret Agent channel is great for my focus nowadays. I recall listening to Groove Salad back in my draftsman years, from 2000-2002. I am still amazed at how SomaFM has continued to exist.
- sublinear 6mo agoMy defaults are Drone Zone, Synphaera, and The Trip. These three are very similar to what Defcon sounded like before around 2023 when they started adding more generic hip-hop influenced beats. Defcon can be alright, but about 25% of their playlist will suddenly take me out of a flow state due to vocals or some obnoxious rhythmic detail.
- bityard 6mo agoSomaFM is the best! They now have a Groove Salad Classic channel which plays all the great stuff they _were_ playing in the early to mid 2000's.
- CoolGuySteve 6mo agoThe soundtracks for SimCity 3000, 4, and the 5th one titled just "SimCity" are written specifically to be played while doing some fiddly micromanagement tasks.
- Zecc 6mo agoWhich brings us to: SpaceChem's soundtrack.
- stevebmark 6mo agoThis seems focused on one very particular taste in music of droning semi-random lo-fi synthesizers. I find this unlistenable without any kind of percussion.
- nine_k 6mo agoThe fact that it works for the author, but totally does not for you is a big fat sign that says: search what works for you. More than that: search what works for you in a particular state of mind. You are a special enough snowflake to require a personal playlist, and it's not easily guessable. Sometimes what works best for me is Bach's violin concertos. Other times it's MBR [1]. Yet other times it might be some Keiko Matsui piano jazz, or early Apocalyptica, or Enya, or [...]. Try different things, notice what feels right and when, rinse, repeat. [1]: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/music https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/music
- stevebmark 6mo agoWow I've never thought about listening to music I like before?????
- nine_k 6mo agoNot all music I like makes good work music. For instance, I cannot work with code while listening to songs: the verbal center apparently gets overloaded.
- jeffreygoesto 6mo agoFor a while and a certain mood, Ostkreuz's album "Motor" worked shockingly well and I coded like in the most focused flow ever...
- porjo 6mo agoAgreed! I like music that can be enjoyed either active or passive listening. The main requirement is that it have no vocals. Here's my go-to Spotify playlist while coding. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1IKenYEiooONuxxawKtNOm?si=KaY3HQLwRhmP2fZ-5212Lg&pi=CVnZH-GoQyG5o https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1IKenYEiooONuxxawKtNOm?si=...
- aniekann 6mo agominecraft music is peak and takes all :)
- dmd 6mo agoI'm well aware that I'm in the minority, but I have never been able to focus on anything - especially programming - other than in absolute, total silence. (Yes, I'm an only child.)
- sublinear 6mo agoI don't know if you're in a minority. I think people just don't like a boring answer like "silence". I was raised in a big family, and I prefer silence when I need truly deep focus. From my experience in open floorplan offices, a majority don't break out the headphones until it gets noisy enough. Some people would even come in early or stay late for exactly this reason.
- nickvec 6mo agoI personally love my classic/progressive rock and am happy to listen to it while working. It seems odd to limit music for programming to only lo-fi.
- gosukiwi 6mo agoI love instrumental only hip hop beats like shamisen x hip hop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qi_-RmXz_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qi_-RmXz_g
- ndc 6mo agoHey me too! Japanese trap is great.
- wahnfrieden 6mo agoWhile working with code, I mostly listen to Playboi Carti or older Thugger
- TiredOfLife 6mo agoAI is really good with musac
- jandrewrogers 6mo agoI’ve thought about and experimented with it a lot. The main criteria is no lyrics, or at a minimum lyrics in a language you don’t understand at all, since this hijacks attention from parts of the brain useful for programming in a noticeable way. I find prominent fast percussion seems to help with focus but I am less confident of that. Most other elements don’t seem to matter too much. Baroque, industrial, ambient, etc are all effectively equivalent in most regards. That said, I tend to lean toward 1990s atmospheric drum-and-bass (pretty much anything released by Good Looking Records) as a good default. That genre maximizes things that seem to help while minimizing things that seem to detract.
- mrchantey 6mo agothis is so much fun!
- poody 6mo agoThis may be weird.. but I have been listening to a bunch of extended "save room" ambient tracks based on music in Resident Evil.. Someone under the name of Survival Spheres has a crapload of these on YT-music.. They are all about 10-12 mins long.. and they stay of the way mentally..
- da_chicken 6mo agoI've had three main tracks that I've used for the past 8 months or so. The first one is a 1-hour mix of "In Motion" from the soundtrack to The Social Network: https://youtu.be/bCxPmMbZjuk https://youtu.be/bCxPmMbZjuk The second is a 1-hour mix of "It Has to be This Way" from the soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising Revengance: https://youtu.be/jKGDib6qZBo https://youtu.be/jKGDib6qZBo The third is a 1-hour mix of "Clock Tower" from the soundtrack to Dead Cells: https://youtu.be/plwhysPCxXI https://youtu.be/plwhysPCxXI
- l3x4ur1n 6mo agoYou're my kind of person
- 0x1ceb00da 6mo agoI think you meant "standing here, I realize, you are just like me, trying to make history"
- bananzamba 6mo agoIn Motion is my favorite productivity track as well. Most of the time I just listen to the whole The Social Network soundtrack
- TuringNYC 6mo ago> In Motion is my favorite productivity track as well. Most of the time I just listen to the whole The Social Network soundtrack I love hacker soundtracks too! I play the OST for Mr Robot and Halt and Catch Fire https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2MjjP5LxjyxA0Vvws3y_3XFLe3sAXuq https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2MjjP5LxjyxA0Vvws3y... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSUs3adMQ8&list=PLrvyiZ4XwFei1opb6UUcZWoOuoTK4fDZ1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSUs3adMQ8&list=PLrvyiZ4XwF...
- TuringNYC 6mo ago>> I've had three main tracks that I've used for the past 8 months or so. I've had several dozen songs (grown from ~5 in 1998) that I've used for almost 28yrs. They were originally mp3s, eventually cds, then apple music. I'm glad the artists have been getting royalties on the songs, i play them on loop sometimes for hours a day for decades on.
- slicktux 6mo agosoma.fm Channel: DEFCON Radio Best programming music!
- __david__ 6mo agoI discovered long ago that psytrance/goa was perfect for me. It works almost as well as caffeine and I can work for hours and hours as long as it’s blaring.
- alfiedotwtf 6mo agoSame. To be honest, anything with a303 feels uplifting, but for me, hard acid techno is the winner!
- Rant423 6mo agosame. before it was a job, I was programming exclusively to trance.fm (sadly gone)
- jerrygoyal 6mo agomy go to coding playlist for years https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVuvGj-9l_yXpuZwSqoCNZxCyqVi2Gn4d&si=srLKY0dZcydHUQAt https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVuvGj-9l_yXpuZwSqo...
- suzdude 6mo agoRandom Access Memories.
- bananzamba 6mo agoAlive 2007
- jeleh 6mo agoChillout channel on DI.FM: https://www.di.fm/chillout https://www.di.fm/chillout
- littke 6mo agoah memories
- scorpionfeet 6mo agoMerzbow. Keep by fidget brain occupied with pure noise while I get real work done. OPs playlist requires too many faculties used in coding.
- andhuman 6mo agoI just listened to the Matrix OST and that one really gets me into a coding mood!
- alfiedotwtf 6mo agoDi.fm (Digitally Imported) has been my companion throughout the years
- kcrwfrd_ 6mo agoAphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Boards of Canada Mr. Robot Original Soundtrack
- laserlight 6mo agoThis is more like music for relaxation. I can't code without a strong rhythm.
- defrost 6mo agoWhen too much rhythm is never enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KgZlxTz8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KgZlxTz8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PIzzMYWp0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PIzzMYWp0U
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- bob1029 6mo agoWhen I'm really trying to get shit done I'll put on some German industrial music like Bagger 258. The lyrics don't bother me because I don't understand them. I find the harsh aesthetic helps to keep me from getting distracted with side quests. Those little voices in my head become inaudible over the nonsensical (to me) lyrics.
- jeltz 6mo agoI like listening to hard rock, EBM and industrial when working. Something with a lot of energy. The lyrics don't bother me at all, I am good at not listening to them, especially if I know the song and what the lyrics are.
- janpmz 6mo agoMy vibe coding playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFcwd2lzu8tujlF-tPg1EfXPUafQraVfu&si=g7qAz_59wksccKND https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFcwd2lzu8tujlF-tPg1EfXPU...
- processunknown 6mo agodub techno, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@Scienide1995_Deep_and_Dub https://www.youtube.com/@Scienide1995_Deep_and_Dub
- mlvljr 6mo ago[dead]
- tga 6mo agoFor another genre suggestion: handpan music. It's rhythmic and repetitive, but warmer than electronica, and fades nicely in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafSm6N5bkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafSm6N5bkc
- stronglikedan 6mo agoI just wish the guy on the right would stop trying to take a shit while he plays. It's hella distracting. But yeah, thanks for the intro to this - me likey.
- skor 6mo agoHere is some long-play stuff I do with code that helps write code https://lowveld.bandcamp.com/ https://lowveld.bandcamp.com/
- eterm 6mo agoI listen to post-rock. There are usually no lyrics, there's an absolute ton out there, and something about the music gets my brain flowing better than other instrumental music.
- fainpul 6mo agosynthwave
- kherud 6mo agoIf I'd have to make one recommendation it's David August's Boiler Room set [1]. It has such a coherent flow through the whole set, it makes me fly through multiple hours if not days of work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfwdJx0NDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfwdJx0NDE
- xallace 6mo agoOliver Huntemann - Propaganda Album https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLscdEjM7jiUsxRPIt7BUjzxpA2wZ3qJOg&si=T0Dgr1oNOQ9EVHLY https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLscdEjM7jiUsxRPIt7BUjzxpA...
- donkeybeer 6mo agoMorbid Angel - Altars of Madness
- mihaitodor 6mo agoNice! \m/
- ananandreas 6mo agoHaha cool, very specific music though
- freetonik 6mo agoI remember watching an interview with Marco Arment (creator of Overcast and Instapaper) where he mentions that he listens to Phish a lot [1]. He collects every single recording and live show, almost 30 gigabytes of music from this one band. IIRC, he listens to it when working, so he never runs out of "music for programming" this way. 1. https://marco.org/2011/05/26/geek-intro-to-phish https://marco.org/2011/05/26/geek-intro-to-phish
- bananzamba 6mo agoIn the morning I listen to chill electronic music without lyrics: Tycho, Emancipator, Blackmill, Jon Hopkins Later in the day I listen to more energetic electronic music (a lot of which is from the Hotline Miami soundtrack): M|O|O|N, Dan Terminus, Carpenter Brut, Daniel Deluxe, 1788-L, Pendulum
- sublinear 6mo agoCarpenter Brut and a ton of caffeine was vibecoding before LLMs.
- RankingMember 6mo agoThe soundtracks for those two games are just so so good and perfect for that post-lunch caffeinated focus time.
- dmacfour 6mo agoFor me it's the soundtracks to Deus Ex (basically all the games), Mr. Robot, and Halt and Catch Fire.
- ggperry 6mo agoThat is so specific, I can't believe there is someone else out there that flows to Deux Ex. I've had whole sessions with Human Revolution on repeat. You might also like some synthwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gajv2yJt5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gajv2yJt5M The Moebius FM and Frequency channels have many nice long mixes.
- dsquier 6mo agoMy go-to is Paronator - Flowers of Life[1]. It makes an hour melt away. [1] https://www.discogs.com/master/3779840-Paronator-Flowers-Of-Life https://www.discogs.com/master/3779840-Paronator-Flowers-Of-...
- vlachen 6mo agoAim to Head's mix channel is a lot of what I listen to for my design work. 30 min to 1 hour of well mixed tracks. The Witch House tracks are partially helpful in focusing. https://m.youtube.com/@aimtoheadmix1915/videos https://m.youtube.com/@aimtoheadmix1915/videos
- frereubu 6mo agoIt's unsurprising to find lots of ambient / electronica here, and generally I'm the same, but I do occasionally like really loud punk or rock if I need some motivation, like the album Feel The Darkness by Poison Idea, or as I said in another comment, I Am A Tower by Swans on a loop. Generally I get my best work done when I can lock into a single track and have it on repeat.
- peter119 6mo agoI’ve found instrumental + slightly repetitive tracks work best for me — anything too dynamic pulls my attention away. Lately it’s been a mix of ambient electronic and lo-fi, especially for longer deep work sessions.
- whatever1 6mo agoCan we play it for my LLM?
- squigz 6mo agoWhile I'm not surprised at the general tastes here in the comments (as I mostly share them), I am surprised at the lack of any mention of classical?! Johann Johannsson and Max Richter are my go-tos.
- gattr 6mo agoI haven't played the game, but I like to have Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack in the background sometimes (can be found on YT).
- cyberpunk 6mo agoIlluminoids, has to be. https://archive.org/details/IlluminationRadio https://archive.org/details/IlluminationRadio Pick an episode with your rng of choice.
- ZoomZoomZoom 6mo agoIf I could code with a piece of music playing in the background and not lose focus means it's not worth listening at all. Very rarely I use custom-filtered (brownish) noise to help with isolation. Perhaps some kind of Ambient or New Age would work too in such situations, but things I like in those genres require attention and not paying it would be absolutely disrespectful. I listen to all kinds of music at my dayjob but only during specific activities that do not require much contemplation and I can mostly flow with the music and do the work in the background. Though, I'm a musician and sound engineer, so my relationships with music in general might be a bit special.
- chrisweekly 6mo agoFriend, you're missing out by applying a too-rigid filter. There's a bright-line distinction to be made between this use of music as a tool for cognitive enhancement, vs listening for valid reasons other than focus. I'm a musician too, and a lifelong student and appreciator / afficianado of music across many genres. And I spend hours every workday listening to tracks from my "flowstate" playlist -- which tracks are excluded from my taste profile. Other use cases include music appreciation (close attention for pleasure), education / cultural literacy (close attention for analysis / learning), performance (close attention for reproduction, typically broken into segments / fragments), dancing (mixed attention, emphasis on rhythm and physical movement), relaxation (minimal attention), meditation (minimal attention), mood-setting / socialization (mixed attention), etc. Judging a piece of music intended for one of these categories based solely on whether it's "worth listening to" or "[demanding of] respect" in the context of the wrong category will leave you impoverished in the other areas. EDIT: P.S. That doesn't mean tolerating muzak! I recommend curating playlists limited to tracks that you can appreciate in a given appropriate, narrowed context. For example, here's my "flowstate" playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA -- which bears almost no relation to my favorite artists or the kind of music I make.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI tend to like stuff by Will Wood. Always good enough to not skip a song, enough variety I'm not tempted to change to something else, large enough discography to not get distracted by repeat tracks, and insightful lyrics that have "the hacker way" if that makes any sense. Also partial to wendy carlos or whatever The Current (local MN radio station that has really good taste and pulls some deep cuts pretty often) plays ETA: I forgot to mention gorillaz. Great programming music, and seems to give me good ideas.
- Snacklive 6mo agoWill Wood is such a great artist. Glad to see someone giving him recognition in the wild
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI introduced my dad to him recently, he enjoyed it
- robrtsql 6mo agoMinneapolitan here! Just had to agree that The Current is a treasure. For the benefit of others, you can stream it here, if you're curious: https://www.thecurrent.org/ https://www.thecurrent.org/
- mghackerlady 6mo agoNot revealing where I live, but I'm not too far away from there myself ;)
- anothereng 6mo agoI use gregorian chant for programming
- jmorenoamor 6mo agoSwing or Jazz for analysis and painting diagrams Heavy Metal for actual development Bossa Nova for deploying at 1 am
- chrisweekly 6mo ago[dead]
- Sn0wCoder 6mo agoDo not see this one in the thread yet, found this on HN years ago and always in the weekly rotation https://poolsuite.net/ https://poolsuite.net/
- swah 6mo agoHappy times, when that was trending...
- klaussilveira 6mo agoOrbital's brown album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxa6Yv5dVk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxa6Yv5dVk0
- bityard 6mo agoI like the concept but ambient as a genre doesn't really do anything for me. It makes me want to go take a nap. Haven't added anything to it in a while, but over the years I built a youtube playlist of songs that help me focus while working. Generally rules are: predominantly electronic, has some kind of beat, zero vocals. I'm up to over 500 songs at this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTpQwBMaBI&list=PL2A7B99AB93F1E522 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTpQwBMaBI&list=PL2A7B99AB9...
- hoooooooooome 6mo agoFab playlist, thank you
- giglamesh 6mo agoI have very similar criteria, but for me at least > zero vocals can also be vocals in a language I don't understand. In those cases, the voice is just another instrument and not distracting.
- stronglikedan 6mo agothanks for this (more than a simple upvote could say)
- johncomposed 6mo agoI fully credit Autechre's album Exai for deconstructing and reconstructing my brain to learn functional programming back in college (shoutout Racket and BSL).
- dijksterhuis 6mo agoautechre are my usual favourites for mad scientist coding binges
- bitwarrior 6mo agoFor programming, I cannot recommend Soma FM [1] highly enough. There are a huge number of stations, most lyric-free (as to reduce the potential for flow interruption). I personally enjoy Groove Salad Classic and Lush. [1] https://somafm.com/ https://somafm.com/
- gausswho 6mo agoI too can enjoy the SomaFM/Dublab sounds for work. But when I need to mix it up, I switch to FIP (Paris). They manage several different stations, but start with the main one first. It's excellently curated with more of a global palette than your typical station.
- mihaitodor 6mo agoThe Diablo II soundtrack on repeat
- delis-thumbs-7e 6mo agoI didn’t know about this. Worked for me, thank you!
- cyrialize 6mo agoI'm a fan of ambient and instrumental hip hop for programming. My personal favorites are pretty much anything by Nujabes (including the soundtracks for Samurai Champloo), Fat Jon, and DJ Okawari. I also like some classic albums in the genre like Donuts by J Dilla, Dr. No's Oxperiment by Oh No, and Endtroducing by DJ Shadow. I will sometimes go through essential charts I find to dive into new genres, and other times I'll pick a random artist and go through their entire discography start to finish. I highly recommend doing that with Talk Talk, their transition from 80s pop to experimental is phenomenal.
- jballanc 6mo agoBased on what you've already mentioned, there's a good chance you're familiar, but on the off chance you're not: "Funkungfusion" (or, really, anything off the Ninja Tune label) might be right up your alley.
- boogieknite 6mo agosame. combining the 10 volumes of Special Herbs makes a good 5 hour playlist too
- edem 6mo agoI also recommend Datassette which is the 1-man band of the artist behind this.
- __fst__ 6mo agoI love all the recommendations here. Great selection that I can add to my personal hacking background music. I can also recommend - Pure Shakuhachi music (ignore the ones with 'relaxing' background music) - Brian Eno - Vangelis - Hiroshi Yoshimura
- NDizzle 6mo agoEveryone is linking the stuff they use, so I will add as well. I like the ambient/electronic as well, but this one might be new/exciting for some of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnk_b_7trII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnk_b_7trII This is an extended edition of "it might just be a one shot deal" from the waka/jawaka album by Frank Zappa. The extended part is the pedal steel played by Sneaky Pete Kleinow. If you have never heard any Zappa stuff and this is interesting to you, listen to waka jawaka itself if you like instrumentals. If you want something more commercial, listen to the Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation album. If you want more odd, listen to the Bongo Fury album, featuring Captain Beefheart. Happy exploring.
- dollylambda 6mo agokushsessions
- pjm331 6mo agodon't see it in the comments yet so: https://www.brain.fm/ https://www.brain.fm/
- nickdurfe 6mo agoRequires an email address and credit card to even try this, so nope.
- syx 6mo agoI remember back in 2012, thanks to the playlist #4 by Com Truise, I discovered Boards of Canada. I will always be thankful to Datassette for this project!
- jaan 6mo agoNTS radio has been incredible for programming music over the years. Deep backlog, an ambient channel (infinite mixtape: https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/slow-focus https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/slow-focus), and great selections: https://www.nts.live/ https://www.nts.live/ And they have mobile apps :)
- jfvinueza 6mo agoRadio Paradise has a fantastic high-rhythm, excepcionally-curated, sophisticated yet not too extravagant jazz channel called Beyond https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels/beyond https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels/beyond It is pretty much ideal for, as Larry Wall once said, letting music "wash over you" while coding https://youtu.be/SKqBmAHwSkg?si=_vHvP8Ij9lacwhFk https://youtu.be/SKqBmAHwSkg?si=_vHvP8Ij9lacwhFk
- konart 6mo agoDark Synth or something like Juno Reactor for regular workload. French hip-hop/rap to clean head while walking under rain. Speed metal for for LLMing.
- winrid 6mo agoJimTV on YT is great too
- 8bitsrule 6mo agoImpossible to recommend without knowing what works for you. For a one-stop-shop, try SOMA.FM (https://somafm.com/ https://somafm.com/) for a great variety of well-vetted choons in multople genres. After that, one can build up a list of hundreds of net radio stations in VLC and find one that works for you -today-.
- stronglikedan 6mo agoCurrently, the best music for programming is the Artemis II live stream. It's music to my ears, and I'm over the moon! (but usually progressive trance with no lyrics is my preference)
- jdonaldson 6mo agoSharing a spotify link for one of my favorite playlists : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jQQ19MndPFIVqsvDrvJyG?si=4411385bbfc7445d https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jQQ19MndPFIVqsvDrvJyG?si=...
- kelvinjps10 6mo agofor me is breakcore
- bingoMen 6mo ago[dead]
- gytdev 6mo agoI listen to psytrance. Mostly full-on. It usually does not have any vocals and has a groove or beat. But nothing really surpasses silence for thinking.
- sporkland 6mo agoI survived my Microsoft internship in 2001 by listening to Weezer blue, pinkerton, green album on a continuous loop.