It varies. Sometimes I listen to my "stock" music - hard rock and heavy metal of all varieties, with a special focus on 80's era glam metal, speed metal, and thrash metal.
Other times it's various forms of electronic music. House, trance, europop, Hi-NRG, synthwave/darkwave, etc.
And then sometimes I go with classical music. Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Orff, etc.
As far as specifics go, here's some stuff I've listened to lately:
One other thing I'll sometimes do is put on a movie in the background, with the volume turned down fairly low... just enough that I hear some babble and noise, but not enough that I get caught up in what's going on. This only works if I use a movie I've seen / heard many times, so I already know what's happening and won't get drawn into the story. So, something like The Matrix, Antitrust, Tron:Legacy, Hackers, Sneakers, The Social Network, etc.
Mostly various forms of jazz--lately I've been on a roll with Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra. But the key thing is I find it distracting to hear voices while I'm trying to work. So mostly music with no vocals.
Chicago's 911. http://youarelistening.to/chicago For some reason and in my timezone difference to Chicago it puts my brain into coding mode, sometimes hours. I doubt anybody else around me would enjoy that.
I generally listen to heavy metal, classic and hard rock that tends a bit towards prog with long sections and a bit of classical, epic feel to them. Something like Dio-era Rainbow, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden.
I don't listen to anything when coding. I need the silence, and deep thought. However, when I'm doing trivial things, I listen to classical music. Usually "Essential Classical", or something similar, on Google Music.
Digitally Imported has a very wide range of, well, digital music.
They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion.
My current favorite channels are Chillstep, Liquid DnB, Nu Disco, Chill & Tropical House. Various levels of repetitive bass to keep your leg and fingers twitching, and differing tempos to either raise or lower your heart rate, depending on what you need in the moment.
Deep house, or other kinds of repetitive electronic music. Even though I'm usually a rock/jazz person, this music is perfect some times: very chill parties, dancing alone but surrounded
by people, programming. Sometimes commuting.
It's relaxing, rather dronic but with enough variation to not be boring.
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[ 3969 ms ] story [ 2534 ms ] threadOther times it's various forms of electronic music. House, trance, europop, Hi-NRG, synthwave/darkwave, etc.
And then sometimes I go with classical music. Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Orff, etc.
As far as specifics go, here's some stuff I've listened to lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8OELzmpgZo&list=PL7F37BB1A6...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oTQzwXYXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hd8Or1RrYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oZZhpMXP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfL9LC1DC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajF2NOuYkjk
https://youtu.be/-7Q61fH-03E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMJ2b-3eCk
One other thing I'll sometimes do is put on a movie in the background, with the volume turned down fairly low... just enough that I hear some babble and noise, but not enough that I get caught up in what's going on. This only works if I use a movie I've seen / heard many times, so I already know what's happening and won't get drawn into the story. So, something like The Matrix, Antitrust, Tron:Legacy, Hackers, Sneakers, The Social Network, etc.
favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1s9SmrQRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NoYyNKSXQ&t=1672s
https://musicforprogramming.net/
I also like these SomaFM stations:
https://somafm.com/deepspaceone/
https://somafm.com/spacestation/
https://somafm.com/sf1033/
A few favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CjO0H2j0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYrW3yONR44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVid_fLzN5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTqv59JXMUk
From Moby, Pink Floyd, Lindsey Stirling, Disturbed, and M83 are common.
They're free. They're long so you don't need to be interrupted to change a track. The really spacey jams put you in a creative mindspace.
Plus, one of the songwriters founded the EFF!
Tool, A Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide for a mellow, metal mood.
Vitamin String Quartet when I want something familiar, but classical in taste
Nicklecreek, Chris Thile, Old Crow Medicine Show, Punch Brothers for a folk fix.
Kid Ory when a need a New Orleans Jazz pick-me-up
Ibiza chill sessions (annual albums) Melody AM The altogether Little dragon (NPR remix)
a lot of electric guitar - Steve Vai, joe satriani
They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion.
My current favorite channels are Chillstep, Liquid DnB, Nu Disco, Chill & Tropical House. Various levels of repetitive bass to keep your leg and fingers twitching, and differing tempos to either raise or lower your heart rate, depending on what you need in the moment.
Web Browser Flash or mobile apps. http://www.di.fm
It's relaxing, rather dronic but with enough variation to not be boring.