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Have any good dubstep recommendations?

I enjoy my Ratatat station on Pandora. It has very few vocals to distract me. They are just a torrent of noise without much I only play it when I'm working so my brain knows what time it is.

If you listen to metal, I would recommend Machine Head and Lamb of God as two excellent band for "work mode".

Although this statement isn't very contributive to the topic at hand, Ratatat is awesome. Seventeen Years and the songs from LP4 are their best stuff.

It is actually really good music to do work to, the kind of music that's best listened to when you need to focus and are just kind of tired.

I recently discovered dubstep and think it's great work music as well. I would recommend checking out iTunes and Pandora to start finding artists you like, some of my favorite stations are Defiant radio on iTunes and Destroyer.net.

Hmm, I am not an expert on dubstep, I just have a mix that a friend sent me that is mostly Dieselboy. It might be considered drum n' bass, not dubstep, but that's just what I call it because it's got that wahwahwah sound and I have no idea.

Edit: Oh yeah, I can give a shoutout to Aaron Static though, I met him through EVE Online and he comes out with great new "Power Hour" mixes every month: http://aaronstatic.com/

I'm a big fan of programming to http://jungletrain.net/

>that wahwahwah sound

That's a good way to describe it, I know exactly what you're talking about haha.

That's the wobble bass.

I did not get the appeal until I got addicted to this incredible mix: http://soundcloud.com/erwtenpeller/war-of-the-worlds