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Ask YC: Best Hacking Music?

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I'm always on the lookout for new music/artists. I suppose many in the YC community have similar taste in music. So, what/who does everybody listen to when they hack?

I tend to stick with classical/techno/anything without words as lyrics usually distract me from the task at hand.

How about you? What are you listening to right now?

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This has been discussed many times before. pg should really include a search bar or link on this site...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026

thanks. I will read that thread.

Check out Rachmaninoff's symphonies, and "pink noise" albums: rainforests, ocean, etc.

I know this wasn't mentioned in the previous threads...check out Magnet - http://www.homeofmagnet.com/

Synthetic folk, great trance-type music when you get in the zone.

Thanks twampss. Like what I hear so far.

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my preferred way, but fails on posts where points < 2 because of rel="nofollow".

or searchyc.com

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Yamato Ensemble -- traditional Japanese music with koto, flute, singing...

Rob Dougan is one of my current favorites. A shame he only has one album out. I'm also digging The London Philharmonics' album "The London Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of Pink Floyd"

You must be referring to "Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd" performed by the London Philharmonic. It's pretty good, but there was an even better disc that came out around 1989, "Objects of Fantasy: The Music of Pink Floyd" performed by David Palmer (formerly of Jethro Tull) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

I have a confession. I actually don't listen to anything when I code. I find it all distracting. I'll sometimes put headphones on so people don't bother me, but I never have anything playing.

underground 1960s and 70s psychedelic, modern composers, electroacoustic noise, idigenous folk art, (Joik anyone?), mentally ill street buskers, field recordings, fractal and tesellation sound structures, Heitor Villa-Lobos, evolutionary algorithm -based interactive composition, Roxette, aleatoric compositions (Cage for example), and "The Free Software song" (just kidding about the last one).

I tend to listen to music podcasts such as Accident Hash, UC Radio, Indie Radio Chattenooga and Sonic Wallpaper.

Trance! (Again!) http://www.di.fm/trance/ !

You got it. DI serves up good stuff. If I hadn't been listening to DI, I probably would have never heard the collection by Shulman - OMG. It's outrageous.

At the moment there's lots of Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV spinning on iTunes for me. :)

The Humming of Server Fan ;)

http://www.hypem.com

As always, I hack to ETN.FM's Progressive Trance stream.

aphex twin

anything by Infected Mushroom.

daft punk

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