tyggerdev ([personal profile] tyggerdev) wrote2010-10-12 11:55 pm

Music to code to.

Something doofy, not to mind-requiring or distracting. It used to be prodigy, Messiah, Juno Reactor, etc.

Any recommendations? What do the kids these days listen to?
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[personal profile] kareila 2010-10-13 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
For coding I definitely prefer instrumental music. I tend to gravitate either to baroque (like Glenn Gould's interpretations of Bach) or electronic (anything with thumping bass) depending on mood or time of day.
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[staff profile] denise 2010-11-02 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I go for stuff that doesn't have words in English (or if it does, they're few and far between) -- these days it's mostly electronica. I like The Orb and Massive Attack (although Massive Attack fails the not-English), but my absolute favorite "work to do" music is two albums by Mixmaster Morris and Pete Namlook, called "Dreamfish" and "Dreamfish 2". (It's also my on-airplanes music.)

Amon Tobin is another good one: instrumental quasi-electronica with a lot of motion. I'm also fond of Christopher O'Riley's piano reinterpretations of Radiohead and the London Philharmonic's version of Led Zeppelin. Other groups on my "background" playlist: Deepspace, Solar Fields, Byron Metcalf, Stars of the Lid, Al Fabris, Hammock, Aes Dana, Asura, Baird Hersey & Prana, Brian Eno, Biosphere, Steve Roach, and Thom Brennan.

(All of 'em are on the iTunes music store; I found most of them through Genius results.)

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(Anonymous) 2011-08-08 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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