what are cool songs for programming? been listening to darude sandstorm for too long.

Youtube playlists of glitch-hop, future bass, and electro-swing.

StarCraft 1 soundtrack. Any of the Terran tracks.

Tool - Lateralus & 10,000 days 🤘

Listen to an artist called The Algorithm. Notable songs: Shellcode, Trojans, Userspace, Floating Point. Enjoy ✊

The Jurassic Park Theme super slow. Yes, really.

https://m.soundcloud.com/birdfeeder...

Look up 'epic 1 hour Asian mix' on YouTube, awesome.

Look up 'epic 1 hour Asian mix' on YouTube, awesome.

silence

Anything by Frank Keplacki

I used to love me some Yanni songs when programming. Especially World Dance, Santorini, Nostalgia, Standing in Motion, Rainmaker. It's also easier to concentrate when there is no strong vocalist interrupting your train of thoughts.

Of course you can always go to rock music or screamo if you're trying to stay awake but it's harder to concentrate on the code.

Two words: Pink. Floyd.

I listen only good old music, including (but not limiting to) Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, RATM, SOAD,... during coding sessions.

Chill Nation on YouTube.

It really depends on the person what music will be nice when programming. For me its Nujabes, pink floyd, sigur ros, even rave music mixes sometimes :-D.

@rant my ability to focus on a task is directly proportionate to how mental the music is. Dissonance and odd time signatures help me focus for some reason. Anything nice or calm just annoys me and I end up coding in silence. Surely I'm not the only one, right?!

One exception is IBM 1401, a user's manual. The instruction manual for an IBM 1401 set to music. It's awesome!

Give this a whirl:
https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

@kwilliams isn't frank klepaki the soundtrack composer of command & conquer?

king fantastic

Variations of rock, so things like tool, a perfect circle, clutch (big emphasis here), the company band, kyuss, the sword, wolfmother, Brant bjork, silverchair... to name a few..

@pixeltherapy
What the literal fuck did you just make me watch??.. lol

Epic sax Guy 10hrs

for me its Deadmau5 - 4 x 4 = 12 best album for coding xD

No matter what you listen too, listening in form of albums is the best for maintaining focus :)

I also use YouTube for this. Lately I've been typing queries like "deep house mix". I used to listen to psytrance/goa but that has been too intense lately. (for coding)

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit is my go to atm

Try http://musicforprogramming.net

Each episode is around 100-120 MB.

Shoegaze

@heyheni indeed and several other rock/EDM sound tracks.

@fatlard1993 lol! pwnd 😜 it's ambient weirdness, not to everyone's taste. Interesting nonetheless, no?! 😁

The chemical Brothers, it's just crazy how happy you're while coding and listen them!

http://focusmusic.fm lately or old alt rock, EDM, non vocal is best for concentration.