35
edits
Mindless Coding Music: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (25 intermediate revisions by 14 users not shown) | |||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
There's a lot to keep track of. Distractions from your environment really hurt one's productivity while programming, and music can help. | There's a lot to keep track of. Distractions from your environment really hurt one's productivity while programming, and music can help. | ||
Not just any sort of music, unfortunately. Many programmers have found rock or metal distracting, and have turned to electronica or | Not just any sort of music, unfortunately. Many programmers have found rock or metal distracting, and have turned to electronica, dance or post-rock/instrumental rock, stuff they wouldn't normally consider. | ||
So, without further waffle, here's a list of artists and streaming radio stations that some programmers find aid concentration. | So, without further waffle, here's a list of artists and streaming radio stations that some programmers find aid concentration. | ||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
* [http://www.di.fm Digitally Imported] - Trance, Vocal Trance, Chillout, Deep House, Hard Dance, Euro Dance, Progressive, Goa-Psy Trance, Hard Core, DJ Mixes, Drum 'n' Bass, Classic Electronica. Okay, so a lot of the genre names are totally gay, but some of the music is good. Also high-quality multi-format streams. | * [http://www.di.fm Digitally Imported] - Trance, Vocal Trance, Chillout, Deep House, Hard Dance, Euro Dance, Progressive, Goa-Psy Trance, Hard Core, DJ Mixes, Drum 'n' Bass, Classic Electronica. Okay, so a lot of the genre names are totally gay, but some of the music is good. Also high-quality multi-format streams. | ||
* [http://www.slayradio.org/ Slay Radio] - Mostly remixes of old Commodore-64 tunes. Offers streams of varying bitrate, mp3 format. | * [http://www.slayradio.org/ Slay Radio] - Mostly remixes of old Commodore-64 tunes. Offers streams of varying bitrate, mp3 format. | ||
* [http://www.somafm.com/ Soma FM] - Ecelectic Ambient, choose deep spaces beats, electronica, jazz or even 70's rock streams... its all good backround music. High bit rate streams and rare down times, one of the best online. | |||
==Artists== | |||
* Aphex Twin | |||
* Autechre | |||
* Belle Orchestre | |||
* Boards of Canada | |||
* Celestial | |||
* Daft Punk | |||
* Dead Can Dance | |||
* Do Make Say Think | |||
* Discordance Axis | |||
* El Ten Eleven | |||
* Explosions In The Sky | |||
* Fear Factory | |||
* Fog | |||
* Isis | |||
* Pink Floyd | |||
* Radiohead | |||
* Red Sparrowes | |||
* REM | |||
* Shark Quest | |||
* Steve Reich | |||
* The Album Leaf | |||
==Movie Soundtracks== | |||
* Gladiator | |||
* Gattaca | |||
* The Shawshank Redemption | |||
* Solaris (''very ambient, almost classical at times'') | |||
* Fight Club (''occasionally intrusive (and has some dialogue) but fairly funky background music'') | |||
* Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon | |||
* The Hunt For Red October | |||
== | ==Game Soundtracks== | ||
* Wipeout Pure | |||
[[Category:Music]] | |||