What Music Do You Listen To Focus On Work?
It’s late, you’re grinding out an assignment, you take out your headphones and hit play on something that will keep you awake and focused for a long stretch of grunt work. What are you listening to?
Toto-Africa
Dude that's just a rip off of that Weezer song
This music is a natural anti depressant
Lately I've had YSIV on repeat. But I generally listen to rap / rock / sometimes when I really want to focus I'll listen to classical / instrumental only music (I find at times the lyrics can be distracting).
I agree with you on that. I listen to a lot of Brahms while really focusing in. Sometimes just put on a random LoFi playlist. If I am under a time crunch I listen to speed metal or fast paced EDM.
Forgot to mention EDM / trance.
Huey Lewis And The News - Hip To Be Square
But when Sports came out in '83, the group really came into their own--commercially and artistically.
Some ghetto dudes singing about bitches, money, and guns. Otherwise, some white trash singing about drugs, their god-complex, and cryptic names for the vagina.
All about that Lo-Fi. Also really like Vaporwave, Future Funk, Synthwave / Outrun.
Basically, anything with a beat and minimal vocals.
One of my go to stations is probably this one:
This stream was the first thing that came to my mind. If I listen to something with lyrics I’ll focus on them too much. Too hype and it may just become stressful to listen to... this is usually perfect.
Man this is brilliant. Good find, gonna add this to my listens. Check out Anomalie, FKJ, & Tom Misch. Not exactly like this but still chill music.
Good stuff dude - I left Chillwave/Vaporwave/Outrun stations/mixes from my post below. Will go back later to revise and include.
Check out the album “Dive” by Tycho - think you’ll dig it.
One of my favorite albums, love it.
Love this playlist on spotify-glad someone mentioned it here.
Big Bootie Mix volumes 1-14 by Two Friends (2F) on Soundcloud...would highly recommend
90's hip hop and R&B, chillstep / vocal trance, classical piano
Jazz Vibes playlist on Spotify or Miles Davis.
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, STS9 - Seasons 01, 808 State - Ninety, or any crazy Chopin piano songs
Depressing music. The Weeknd's Trilogy, Kiss Land; Some Lana Del Rey.
Oh, my sweet summer child - you think that's depressing? Let me introduce you to Radiohead, Mogwai, The Smiths, Nine Inch Nails... You haven't even begun to feel sad.
Lil pump on repeat
I just listen to Gucci Gang non-stop. Not even the whole song, just the part where he's going "Gucci gang"
Like this:
Was expecting that to be a 10 hr loop.
Metal and shredder guitar are perfect for cranking through stuff. “Absolute music” like some of Bach and Mozart’s instrumentals are good for deep work, but their choral music can get distracting. EDM is also good.
FocusAtWill Channel on Youtube is great to keep you sharp. I also listen to the same 9 hard EDM songs if I'm really working through something. I've heard them enough that it's just like background music but they keep me going
Joyryde/Tchami/MALA/Brohug - bass house will keep you going for hours.
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Any Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross soundtrack. I've listed a few below. Social Network soundtrack always turns me into a machine when building new models on excel.
The Social Network The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Gone Girl The Vietnam War Before the Flood
Late to this thread, but here is a (very) partial list presented in no particular order. If you want me to expand within a particular vein, can do no problem.
I urge you not to sleep on this shit. Sample a couple of the below and tell me you don’t find something you hadn’t heard that you don’t think is bangin.
Enjoy:
Drum and Bass
-Desire - Sub Focus & Dimension -Turn it Around - Sub Focus -Nobody’s Perfect - Netsky Remix -Out of the Blue - Sub Focus -Deeper Love - Botnek -Control - Matrix & Futurebound -Freefall - Metrik -Snake Eyes - Feint -Wherever You Go - Enigma Dubz
Classical -La Campanella - Liszt -Fantasie - Chopin -Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 - Chopin (Rubenstein) -Raindrop - Chopin
Jazz -Blue in Green - Miles Davis -Almost Blue - Chet Baker -Choro das Aguas - Ivan Lins -No Way - ToKiMoNsTa -Spliff Temple - Exmag -Care For Me - Saba (entire album) -Nujabes (all of his mixes, genius gone too soon) -Kick Push - ToKiMoNsTa remix -Trappin’ in Japan Vols. 1-infinity
Lo-Fi Electronic -Dive - Tycho (Full Album) -Everything You Do is a Balloon - Boards of Canada -I am God - Clams Casino
Rap -Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg -Changes - Tupac -Gangster’s Paradise - Coolio -Caught In a Hustle - Immortal Technique -Razorblade Salvation - Jedi Mind Tricks -Leaving the Past - Immortal Technique -Ante Up - M.O.P. (Remix) (feat Busta Rhymes)
Anjunadeep Chillout
My real go to is all of Caribou's albums on repeat. Just the right mix of upbeat, no voclas music. Some notes are drawn out longer which helps me keep a train of thought running, with enough short bursts that encourage new ideas. The more you listen the better it gets
Totally forgot about these guys! Will jam them today.
Aside from the playlist Lapike posted above, I have really enjoyed listening to indie-electronic esq music while I work. Groups like Chain Gang of 1974, Future Islands, and M83 come to mind.
I just pick a song that comes to mind at that moment and repeat it.
Lil Uzi Vert vs The World
trap music
Odesza or anything similar works wonders for me
Used to do EDM. Then went to the San Francisco symphony once.
I now listen to the "This is Beethoven" and "This is Mozart" playlists on Spotify. They are really great.
Get some Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in your life.
Thx. Giving it a listen today!
EDM/Dance/House type music or anything with heavy beats that gets me pumped up. Ex: The Glitch Mob, Aphex Twin, Lorn, Sub Focus, Hyper, Madeon, Giorgio Moroder, Alan Walker, Blue Man Group (some tracks more than others), Fatboy Slim, Tiesto, Victor Dinaire, Cazzette,
or other similar sounds like the type JP's lair in Grandma's Boy.
This gets me in the zone
Jazz Drum and Bass works wonders. Better than addy
DEEP house mixes. Shiba San / Fisher. Absolute roll music but the constant BPM keeps you in a zone.
Tears In Your Eyes - Nora En Pure
Nujabes
Give him a listen
I usually listen movie soundtracks by Hans Zimmer or John Williams. It's easier to concentrate when there no lyrics. I also listen to game of thrones soundtrack. It makes me work faster for some reason hahaha.
bumping this for no fucking reason.
Also math rock really fucking helps crank shit out (eg: Hella, Nuito, 3nd, Don Caballero) Black metal if i'm pissed, wanna get shit done and gtfo (Deathspell Omega, Leviathan, Batushka, Ulver) And when im just pissed fucking bring out the wack shit (Death Grips, Xiu Xiu, Converge)
For more relaxed, though-driven work I think something like Swans, Stereolab, Aphex Twin helps. Those drawn-out tracks help to zone in.
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Tiesto Pandora station if it's a good grind. Ice Cube Pandora station if not.
Slowcore or the Lo-Fi playlist on Spotify is usually what I put on
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