MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU F-O-C-U-S FOR PROGRAMING, WRITING, ETC.

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The Merzbow stuff that is just stereo noodling noise with almost no tonal elements or sudden changes.
Aphex Twin - SA2
DJ Shadow; stuff that lacks vocal samples
Mindflayer
Talking Heads

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

gas - pop

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure. Often I find that when I'm focusing I'm ignoring or barely registering what music is on anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I find that non vocal music makes me program better.

Cognitive neuroscience to thread!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraftwerk "Home Computer"... duh!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

actually the entire "Computer world" album...

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

jon you should get the gas record; it's very pretty and no vocals.

you might like konigsburg better. it's like, um, dark new age.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm building a new PHP site for a record store right now, so here's what's on my desk:

Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works II"
Passarani "Unspeakable Future Outbreaks" and "It Will Be What It Was"
Plastikman "Artifakts BC"
Speedy J "G Spot"
Yamo "Time Pie"
M83 "Dead Cities Red Seas And Lost Ghosts"
Wave Workers Foundation "In The Whirlpool"
Front 242 "Front By Front"

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I AM IN A WORLD OF CONFUSION. DO THESE ALBUMS HAVE KILLER MOSH PARTS AND CRUCIAL BREAKDOWNS?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Dag Nasty is really good to work out to.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The nerd across the hall from me used to play GYBE! when he was coding. Or guitar wank rock.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is too distracting. I do like putting on Telefon Tel Aviv when I start to put me in a calm mood though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

GYBE! is grebt for that, Philip Glass works well in that vien.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an excellent coding CD called "Corciolli in the Mix" which is basically trance and hard-house remixes of Corciolli, who bills himself as the Brazilian Tangerine Dream. I picked it up in the supermarket. I can even write Java listening to this. I find a CD of dance remixes of Goblin soundtracks for Dario Argento movies is pretty good as well. OTOH it's impossible to code listening to Momus :-(

― phil jones (interstar), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Lately I've been listening to the new Lightning Bolt whilst programming.

― Dale the Merciless (cprek), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Manuel gottsching works for me when I need to concentrate
New Age of Earth and E2 E4 are the best

― Magic City (ano ano), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, post-rock and your less freaky krautrock are tailor made for this

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I can work to pretty much anything EXCEPT all of the above.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

..minus my suggestion, of course.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now, I'm taking a break from writing a historiographical paper on the social/psychological state of the typical antebellum Southern plantation slave, and the only thing getting me through it is "Enobox I & II"...worked on my Master's thesis, too.

― Erick H (Erick H), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

donut bitch OTM except for kraftwerk

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the 17 minute-long version of "Rollercoaster" by Spacemen 3.

On repeat.

and mixed in with some Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Lets my mind just wander 'round the room whilst i'm working on something.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

anything 136 BPM+ with no vocals will do quite nicely thank you

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Second Eno boxes, Millar and E2-E4.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hip hop seems good. I'm listening to RJD2 :D

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost anything instrumental at low volume.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

NEW ORDER NEW ORDER NEW ORDER NEW ORDER.

New Order was made for this sort of thing. You know the songs so well you don't really need to listen to them. And they are upbeat to keep your keystrokes up.

It's strange, though, when I'm Writing writing (as opposed to music writing, in which case I need to be listening to what I'm writing about) my writing will often take on the flavour of what I'm listening to. So I will often compulsively listen to the same album over and over while working on one story to keep me in the right frame of mind.

I wrote a novel called Sister last summer which was written almost entirely while listening to Sonic Youth's _Sister_.

― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

For web development - music doesn't distract me, so, anything, but I am really partial to Depeche Mode right now. ("Lie to Me" - heard this & realized I had been denying the genius of this band for waaay too long). Writing academic papers - most things get in the way, but choral music is great, and Isolee - Rest.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 14 June 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually don't listen to anything. I'm as ADD addled, everything distracts me. If I'm not sitting in a theater, I can barely sit through a movie. And if there's music playing, I either tune it out like Ned does, or let it throw me totally off-track. Same goes for music and sex. Not the best mixture, I find.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 14 June 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Labradford got me through grad school.

― cybele (cybele), Saturday, 14 June 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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