Selected Ambient Works
90s electronic, Autechre
Incunabula, their debut album as Autechre, is also fantastic:
Instrumental heavy metal.
Post rock for me. It’s a wide genre that is sometimes classical in nature to punk metal.
Techno, house, trance, or nintendo music.
Second this, love the trance and Nintendo tunes! There’s some good lofi Nintendo mixes on YouTube that get me through work
None. Otherwise, I’m listening to music instead of concentrating on whatever I should be.
The first Sims game soundtrack
The Movies game soundtrack
When I really need to concentrate I put on music in a foreign language. Mainly German because I’ve found a lot of German bands I like. Some of my favorites that sing mainly in German:
- Wizo
- Die Ärzte
- Die Toten Hosen
- We Butter Out Bread With Butter
Found this playlist on Spotify recently called Creative Flow Music and it is now my go-to.
Anything without vocals so that it doesn’t force me to actually think about it, just vibe.
Lately Chikoi The Maid (maidcore rock) or Gnome (the Father Of Time album, just-riffs-rock?) to some dnb/techno stuff, depends on the mood and how hard I need to focus - faster is better then.
video game music is designed to pump you up without breaking your concentration.
almost anything with lyrics in it is a no go for me if my goal is to have background music to relax/study to. also lofi.
Minecraft soundtrack
It’s really hard to time it just right but the theme to Jeopardy 👍
Get it wrong and it’ll really surprise you!
There’s a channel on Youtube called My Analogue Journey, I usually chuck that on.
House music. Nearly everyday while I code. Mostly Chris Luno sets.
I’ve had the Billie Eilish’s new album on loop recently. But before that I’d usually have some Floyd or god machine on.
Drum’n’Bass
