What Music Do You Listen To Focus On Work?

Toto-Africa

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).

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.

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.

Lil pump on repeat

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.

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

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.

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