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anon3_ | 10 years ago

Can you give some examples of the "ambient spacey" music? Video game music too?

In other comments: If you listen to music can you list some on youtube we can grab?

By the way, if you're music mac, bsd or linux, you can use Youtube-dl to download youtube / video site music:

  pip install youtube-dl
  youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <url>

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Nurdok|10 years ago

I listen to the FTL Soundtrack: https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl

anon3_|10 years ago

This sounds nice.

So this bandcamp site, is it like an indie itunes? I notice you can sample the whole song without paying. I use soundcloud is good for free music.

I'm kind of thinking it'd be nice to have a monthly what are you listening to while working thread.

QuantumRoar|10 years ago

Try these:

Ochre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1OX319f9o

Atomos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhZ3CC080E

Koan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-YgxXc9_w0

Kettel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0yv66Z3Nq0

Easily Embarrassed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZuZWf9T5E

They generally float my coding boat.

ScottBurson|10 years ago

My favorite ambient music for working is by Lucette Bourdin: http://www.lbourdin.com/

Some free downloads here: http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/artist-detail.php?id...

CDs can be bought at: http://darkduck.net/

I think her work strikes a nice balance -- it sounds nice when I'm actually listening, but most of it is easy to tune out when I want to focus on something else.

DanAndersen|10 years ago

QuantumRoar's reply is pretty well-aligned with what I do for space music. I usually just grab random playlists on Youtube for "space music."

As for video game music, I'm currently partial to Assassin's Creed and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

And when it comes to the intersection between the two, music from the Myst games is good.

xenodium|10 years ago

Some in my selection may qualify as examples of "ambient spacey": http://xenodium.com/#my-working-playlist

sirtaj|10 years ago

A nice intro would be some of the channels over at http://somafm.com/ particularly Deep Space One, Space Station Soma and Drone Zone.