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Seeking New Focus Music For Coding? Try Loopsy Dazy

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Loopsy Dazy is a live-looping acoustic-electronic project led by Mikey Dorje on acoustic guitar, synth, beats and effects, with frequent accompaniment by Eleanor Edgar on violin and effects, Brad Weber (aka Pick a Piper, aka Coy Haste, member of Caribou) on drums and synth and Adam Jenkins on bass.

This has been my go-to focus music of late, so I'd definitely recommend it either way, but I'm also recommending it because they are led by my brother Mikey. Mikey also writes code and is a DEV member @mikeydorje.

Follow them on Spotify or wherever you listen to music. It's great headphone music.

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Henry Alberto Rodriguez

Try anime openings songs, lyrics won't affect as you won't understand a thing :P and there's full range of bits, I find it specially good for when I'm needing a performance boost.

System Of a Down + a Red Bull is a great convo when the dead line is coming over :D

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Renato Byrro

"Can't stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers also works well when deadline starts knocking the door 🎸

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Sarthak Sharma

Try this

GitHub logo sarthology / ProjectSoundtracks

🎧 List of best Soundtracks to boost your Productivity and Focus

Complete Albums

1. Interstellar OSTΒ πŸš€

🎼 Music Composer: Hans Zimmer

πŸ‘πŸ» Best for: Brainstorming and Discussions 🧠

πŸ”— Links: Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, SoundCloud

2. Pirates of the Caribbean ⛡️

🎼 Music Composer: Hans Zimmer

πŸ‘πŸ» Best for: High Concentration Works πŸ”₯

πŸ”— Links: Spotify, Youtube

3. The Dark Knight RisesΒ πŸ¦‡

🎼 Music Composer: Hans Zimmer

πŸ‘πŸ» Best for: High Concentration Works πŸ”₯

πŸ”— Links: Spotify, Apple Music , Youtube, SoundCloud

4. The Theory of Everything 🌌

🎼 Music Composer: Jóhann Jóhannsson

πŸ‘πŸ» Best for: Deep thinking and Creative work ✍🏼

πŸ”— Links: Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, SoundCloud

5. Hobbit/Lords of the ringΒ πŸŒ‹

🎼 Music Composer: Howard Shore

πŸ‘πŸ» Best for: These albums are Jack of all πŸ’

πŸ”— Links: Every easy to find but still Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube

6. Man of steel πŸ’ͺ🏻

πŸŽΌβ€¦

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Matthew Orndoff • Edited

Try Emancipator or Tycho.

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Mikey Dorje

Hey @ben , thanks for sharing this! Super cool to hear my music is good coding music. Cool to see so many suggestions here as well.

I'm getting back into some coding projects after a few month of a music hiatus, so finally replying to this!

If you like coding to ambient music, this artist, Lowercase Noises is EXCELLENT:

Fittingly, I discovered Lowercase Noises on tonethreads.com (website I built / run)

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Simon Mayerhofer

Great reminder! I used to use brain.fm/. Their music is designed for reaching mental states. You can get more informations here: brain.fm/science
I had the luck to buy a lifetime membership for less than a year costs now when they were in their beginnings. But 50$ / yr is also fair in my opinion. I recommend to give it a try.

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Renato Byrro

Nice playlist

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Mehdi Mousavi • Edited

Most of presented playlists is not suitable for programming, specially when you work at pressure. so i think it is better for each developer to progressively listen tracks and delete ones who not good for him at work. sorry for english.

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Robin Kretzschmar

I just heard "underground," "sounds," and "La Lune".
Definitely worth adding to my playlists and following him!
Just awesome how the combination of so simple beats creates a nice variety that doesn't get boring over time πŸ‘

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Sunit Katkar

Reminds of a T shirt I saw at a conference. It said "Good Programming Is 3% Talent And 97% Not Getting Distracted By The Internet" :-)

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Jess Lee

oooh caribou! how cool.