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It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subge
by fumar 14y ago
It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies.
Electronic
1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house)
2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92
3. Moby - 18
4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house)
5. Boards of Canada - Music has the right to Children
6. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Post-Classical
1. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
2. Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
3. Max Richter - Memoryhouse
4. Nico Muhly - Speaks Volumes
Pop/Indie/Jazz
1. Royksopp - Melody AM
2. The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
4. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
5. Benoit Pioulard - Lasted
- jerf 14y ago"I find productive music to almost always lack vocals." Languages you don't speak also work.
- ajryan 14y agoI created a Spotify playlist with all of these albums (except Boards of Canada and Nico Muhly, not available): http://open.spotify.com/user/ryan.aidan/playlist/5ot3B9EqCZFfdyeSSO0nmO http://open.spotify.com/user/ryan.aidan/playlist/5ot3B9EqCZF...
- fumar 14y agoThanks! I will use it myself. Spotify is lacking some great music, that includes BoC. But, in general, I find myself using it more than I thought. Shameless plug. I released an EP recently. I will be honest only two tracks are, what I consider, finished work. Track 2 and 5. But, still learning... fantasmafigueroa.bandcamp.com
- agscala 14y agoCheck out Tycho, which is available on Spotify. Similar to BoC and also excellent.
- awolf 14y agoThanks for this list, I went through everything you listed and found a few new albums which fit my coding music tastes. Along the the same lines as fumar's suggestions, I recommend: 1. Music from Braid (yes, the video game) 2. Black Swan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 3. The Social Network Soundtrack
- paulovsk 14y agoInception OST is insane too. Live long, Hans Zimmer!
- acchow 14y ago> I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. This agrees with generally accepted psychological models. The mind is totally single-threaded in language processing/parsing (compared to incredible parallelism in spatial processing).
- bbs 14y agoThis is why I don't understand you can hear voices in the coffitivity vocals, you need music not to catch some (parts of) sentences here and there. I do like it so far though, on the note of music that is nice to code to try out Pretty Lights.
- yaj 14y agoThanks. I will try it out. Instrumental/lack of vocals also helps me. I mostly listen to post rock - godspeed you!black emperor, pelican, mogwai.
- jksmith 14y agoGot some of those in your list myself. More to include: 1) Eno - Music for Airports <br> 2) Kaen - Interworlds 3) Shulman - Random Thoughts. It's too engrossing the first few times. After that, pretty good for background music.
- martindale 14y agoWe enforce this in the rules on our communal listening site, http://codingsoundtrack.org http://codingsoundtrack.org -- we like to think it's something to do with that part of our brains already being dedicated to understanding computer language.
- richcollins 14y agoCarbon Based Lifeforms
- minikomi 14y agoWould like to add the Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alvo Noto collaborations as well as the pole Red, Blue, Yellow albums to this!
- DeepDuh 14y agoI think you would like everything from Bonobo. Warning: addictive - I often keep his new albums on repeat for many weeks.
- Guillaume86 14y agoI usually put 2 or 3 quiet electronic/trip-hop songs in my playlist and then I use the last.fm similar tracks to fill up the playlist, works quite well: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/177896/WP_Shot.PNG https://dl.dropbox.com/u/177896/WP_Shot.PNG
- shawndumas 14y agotry these https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/likes https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/likes