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Ask HN: What are you listening to right now?

12 points| japhyr | 12 years ago

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

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[+] gmjoe|12 years ago|reply
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...

[+] japhyr|12 years ago|reply
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.

[+] saysjonathan|12 years ago|reply
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.
[+] bnejad|12 years ago|reply
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

[+] cyphax|12 years ago|reply
I like to (and am currently doing so) listen to Carbon Based Lifeforms. Their album Interloper is eargasmic. :)
[+] faso|12 years ago|reply
Monolake - Infinite Snow, my very favorite coding song made by the creator of Ableton Live.
[+] andyhmltn|12 years ago|reply
Good Vibrations - Mark Mark & The Funky Bunch (Feat. Loleatta Holloway)