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Ask HN: What are you listening to right now?

12 pointsjaphyr29 comments

If you listen to music while working, what are you listening to?

If anyone's looking for music recommendations, there's a site I recently launched, "If You Dig": http://ifyoudig.net .

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but thought it might be of interest, since we've got musically inclined HN'ers here...

I can't hear words while I'm working or I get really distracted, so although I grew up on metal most of my working music ends up being classical music. Right now it's Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto #3).

My main rotation includes Beethoven's 9th, 4th, 3rd, 5th, and 6th symphonies. I wish I could listen to new classical music, but I can't disappear into my work while listening to new music.

That said, there's nothing like a little Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning once in a while as I'm working.

I second this. While working, I particularly fancy minimalism (Glass, Reich, Pärt, Górecki), single-instrument compositions from any period, and string quartets. The more uniform the timbre of the instruments, the more it seems to melt into the background.

Here at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce we're all about the smooth sounds of http://www.seeburg1000.com

Days to Come by Bonobo

http://www.last.fm/music/Bonobo/Days+to+Come

Right now, I'm listening to the results of this Soundcloud search:

https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=space%20music&filter....

Death Grips - Government Plates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eld27iNfepY)

I keep tapping my feet and I think the people around me are noticing.

http://www.di.fm/liquiddnb

Probably my favorite genre and this site is a great way to listen to curated music. Pandora isn't really great for this genre imo

Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Hearts

https://play.spotify.com/track/4NPbTPZo9hskIcilXAeKd1

Stray From The Path - iMember

http://open.spotify.com/track/13sKlqm99MmrQeJom4aEhx

Pearl Jam's Lightning Bolt (CD)

Also on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJb5CFon1Y

Raga Shivranjani - hariprasad chaurasia [0]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-AQHfy6uMg

Kvelertak - Offernatt

http://open.spotify.com/track/0dmuLSApa5iIbuabYLq9T2

HOOD INTERNET https://soundcloud.com/duuuuuuuuuuuuuude/likes

SomaFM's Indie Pop Rocks station.

http://somafm.com/indiepop/

I like to (and am currently doing so) listen to Carbon Based Lifeforms. Their album Interloper is eargasmic. :)

https://soundcloud.com/xndxn

Monolake - Infinite Snow, my very favorite coding song made by the creator of Ableton Live.

Good Vibrations - Mark Mark & The Funky Bunch (Feat. Loleatta Holloway)

guy barker at the moment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Barker (jazz, trumpet)

Daft Punk - Get Lucky yt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I

Incidentally I just finished listening to the Russian police cover of the same. Something about this really cracks me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P08B_lBUL0E&sns=tw

Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie

Colbert Report

Zac Brown Band - keep me in mind

Talamasca – Make Some Noise!

Ovnimoon - The Source.

Kid Loco - Ann

Tosin Abasi

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