2018-07-20: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573053
2016-11-01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844434
2012-02-18: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605957
2012-02-03: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694
The repetitive, gentle sounds put me into a high efficiency mode without putting me to sleep like most ambient.
[0]: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrgTossoB0
Have a look at https://www.steadymixes.com for 130BPM mixes and mashups to keep your pace moving.
Here is my playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yHQaBX599OnGlojw5aDTB?si=...
It's good for driving long distances too. But otherwise, my musical taste is totally different.
Pay attention to the lyrics. Treat it as a story, and try to guess at what's happening. There is a canon answer -- Aviator's albums are in fact all stories -- but try to come up with your own before you look for it.
Everyone sees something different in the lyrics.
https://music.apple.com/de/playlist/piano-chill/pl.cb4d1c09a...
For people who can't listen to music: how about noise generators (e.g. https://mynoise.net/) to drown out ambient noise?
And btw, there's also a fourth mix for the Near Mint web radio: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/near-mint-8th-march-2016-...
But as heavy-artillery concentration music, I recommend TechnoLiveSets. It's the ‘accidentally done all work in one day’ grade material: https://www.techno-livesets.com/
P.S. I'm also gonna gripe about lack of volume controls on the site, which for some reason a bunch of sites consider acceptable. All volume levels on my machine are carefully tuned—and then this site comes along for which I have to fiddle with the master volume. While listening to this explicitly background music, I'll likely come across some videos that I'll want to watch for ten seconds—and then I'll have to either crank the video volume, or scramble to stop the music each time. Don't do this.
On top of that, site authors' ideas of proper volume pretty much never matches mine: Bandcamp and Soundcloud both have to be cranked down a lot: Soundcloud's embedded clips make me lower the system volume to 1/4th of a notch on my Mac, which is about 1/32nd the normal volume for me.
Right now, my absolute favorite is “cockpit” brown noise (the sound of muffled airline jet noise). For example, you could set this track to repeat endlessly: https://open.spotify.com/track/01Kk9an41cyVj7oIXd2Fsj?si=NnC...
For whatever reason, it gives me the feeling of “fast” (jet), important (I’m the pilot of this important thing?), and cozy (strapped in tight in the cockpit), and I never get the distracted (hmmm! What is this song?) feeling that I usually get from programming to music.
FYI: Difference between “white”, “pink”, & “brown” noise: https://www.soundofsleep.com/2017/07/18/white-pink-brown-noi...
There's tons of hour+ mixes on YouTube. Just a random one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1nnAHI1mI
The author's introduction to generative music article (https://medium.com/@metalex9/introduction-to-generative-musi...) is also very interesting.
Here are some sources I like:
Boiler Room (all EDM/dance genres)—https://m.youtube.com/user/brtvofficial/videos?view=0&sort=p...
Anjunadeep (deep house)—https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOftnzGIKwJB1h6ErEcFJTO...
Me: Single source only, absolutely can't listen to music while trying to code or read. I have used https://mynoise.net/ and the Android app to drown out environmental noise when I'm working around others. I'm very easily distracted by noise, especially things like speakerphone conferences. Music to me is a single focus thing, I can't do anything else and have to focus only on the music.
Her: can hold a conversation with me while listening to a podcast and simultaneously playing a phone game. Music is very much something that happens while she is busy doing other stuff, even when it's her favourite songs and she's rocking out singing along.
It was a revelation to her when we discussed this. She was completely unaware that to me, trying to hold a conversation if I was already listening to music was almost painful. She's adjusted her expectations and knows that if my good headphones are on, it's my music time. We both love music so much, it's an integral part of our gen-x upbringing, yet our different attention problems lead us to consume it in very different ways.
(and, yes, she's awesome. I'm amazed daily by her and count myself incredibly lucky to find someone as kind, understanding, funny, loving, sexy and brilliant as her)
sorry if that's TMI.
1. Get any in-ear earbuds (for noise even cheapy ones are fine, for music pick whatever type you like).
2. Get the foam tips to fit them: https://www.complyfoam.com/products/t-series/
3. Put some hearing-protection ear-muffs on top
A tiny amount of noise will make all other sounds disappear at this point.
Not mixes, but I like BT's "These Hopeful Machines" and Oceanlab's "Sirens of the Sea" albums, too.
I’ll give my input. This is my go to focus sound: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dWjKZbkcYdA
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hLUvezSiJ2TpmSQq27IQI?si=...
This is a ~21hr mix I use basically daily when getting into flow - I love it. It's mostly high-energy electronic, some electro-swing, and I'm sure a whole bunch of other genres I'm not equipped to describe (not a music nerd).
Almost all of the music has been discovered through using Spotify Radio, Pandora, etc. and saving the songs I really liked / helped me keep the groove going.
It might or might not work for you, but always happy to share. Also - feedback welcome! If you like this and there's some other stuff I'm missing out on, lmk :)
Some tracks:
* Dimension Essential Mix (DnB): https://soundcloud.com/dimension_uk/essential-mix
* Nicolas Jaar Essential Mix (Various): https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/csp06-nicolas-jaar...
* Mano Le Tough Essential Mix (House): https://soundcloud.com/manoletough/essential-mix
* Charlotte De Witte Essential Mix (Techno): https://soundcloud.com/charlottedewitte-essentialmix2018-02-...
* Diplo Burning Man 2019 (EDM): https://soundcloud.com/diplo/diplo-burning-man-cloud-art-car and https://soundcloud.com/diplo/diplo-burning-man-tetrix-art-ca...
For me that would be anything that I listened to during the all-nighters I pulled throughout college and the background noise in Star Trek TNG.
As a side note if you're working remotely and having trouble focusing on long calls, I recommend Tibetan signing bowls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujyu7tkyxtw
They nicely fill in the gaps in the conversation.
Datassette has tracklists on Soundcloud (iirc), and Andy Clark, Keith Mansfield and James Asher seem to dominate his mixes (though Asher is apparently more into tribal music). Alas my favorite bit from Businessfunk 2 at 34:25 is unidentified.
Before this, I could not listen to music and code at the same time AT ALL. Then, I found a coding playlist with only full length albums with very little vocals, and I changed. I recently created my own flavor of the playlist with only albums that have a consistent flow from one song to the next.
Give it a try and fork it to make your own version!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWXSsYJoWY&feature=list_rela...
Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/nKUbxNb4m2.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71xXPTrKmQ72TpLZSV1DAU
Google Music: https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynw1A1Qs30Ii8AKR...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KmEKavq5Ux0IxY2d5VfyI?si=...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1Kbh5Ln8tMJ_h7IykOFkg/vid...
https://soundcloud.com/featurecast/featurecast-keep-it-comin...
Current one: