What music do you listen to while you code?

[matheus23]

Woah Appel... this just lead me searching for "boom boom boom boom boom" on youtube... found some great stuff, found total garbage, but see what I found too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnQ0bdHW0s
Anyone watched skyfall? PURE AWESOMENESS

[sproingie]

Skyfall was pretty good, but I still think Casino Royale was Craig's best.  Avoiding spoilers here, I came away at the end of Skyfall figuring the next Bond flick will just be eleventy tons of awesome

[matheus23]

Skyfall was pretty good, but I still think Casino Royale was Craig's best.  Avoiding spoilers here, I came away at the end of Skyfall figuring the next Bond flick will just be eleventy tons of awesome

Next Bond will be intresting because of all those changes... Because of new "where"'s and "who"'s...

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[Jimmt]

Need to spread this around...
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/sCw1VLOERyE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/sCw1VLOERyE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JhkIRzZsZvw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JhkIRzZsZvw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>
just try it

[ra4king]

Holy crap those are awesome!

[StumpyStrust]

man it reeks of default settings for synths. I think I heart the basic hypersaw or w/e from sytrus.
Melodies are not bad though.

[StumpyStrust]

So in all super cerealness, I listen to shitz like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2D6YfIgkE

best starts at 4:00

[Vladiedoo]

It really depends on my mood and what exactly I am trying to program. So to reveal the tip of the iceberg we have ->

As mentioned earlier, by Joshua Waring, GoingQuantam has great podcasts/mixs.

Similar to GoingQuantam is emncTV
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/o8oUzFU-dp8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/o8oUzFU-dp8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>
yonasu3music is a channel to look at if GoingQuantam or emncTV intrest you.

[size=10pt]Some other channels/bands I would recommend are Celldweller (for when pumped), TheIniquitousSession, OnlyChillstep, MonstercatMedia, DeintDnB, Blackmill, and fmxz0r.[/size]

If you are going for non-lyrical you can listen to the Fluidified channel, or better yet ->

This is one of the four parts.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/k2wMxrzelng?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/k2wMxrzelng?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

Anime OSTs are great as well.

EDIT(2): Thank you ra4king for help, I learned something new today .

[ra4king]

For embedding Youtube videos, you only put in the video id (which is everything after the 'v=' and before the '&' if there is one)

[ReBirth]

I listen to a song called "boom boom boom boom boom"... I think, it's always on repeat and it's what they call "electronic music". But I like it, simple and gets me booming.

Nicki Minaj's?

Similar to GoingQuantam is emncTV

Hot girl.

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[deepthought]

Sorry to be away so long.

@ cero: yes I do mean basshunter

Also, DJ Mangoo and DJ Splash

[SHC]

I prefer no music while coding but I listen to our native Indian classic songs othertimes.

[deepthought]

The matrix soundtracks are great for coding

[Riven]

The componist of this piece died today:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/u9L6Sz1H9go?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/u9L6Sz1H9go?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

The top one has rubbish sound quality, because it was recorded in an industrial hall. The one below has much better audio, but there is only one pianist. Enjoy for the full 15 minutes.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/frsJuGj5F6g?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/frsJuGj5F6g?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

I don't know I could bare it while coding. Maybe I'll try it someday, looping it indefinitely, until my ears get infected from the angel pissing in them.

[Gjallar]

For the lack of metal in this thread I'll post a video aswell. It's not an aggresive tune so I'm sure noone will be scared off.

It has a pretty piano intro and Hansi Kürsch's voice is an absolute blessing.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/pawciz9npck?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/pawciz9npck?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

[deepthought]

Speaking of metal...

How the story ends and 44 minutes by Megadeth are awesome songs

Psychosocial, by Slipknot, and of course, just about any Ozzy Osbourne song is great

[sproingie]

For the lack of metal in this thread I'll post a video aswell. It's not an aggresive tune so I'm sure noone will be scared off.
(snip)

RAWK

I totally went to Amazon and bought the album.

I was going to present another metal offering but we'd probably just take over the thread with videos

[Cero]

Blind Guardian - Punishment Divine   is my all time favorite song =>

I like Rock, Metal, Classic and seldom Pop(Michael Jackson, some J-Pop or K-Pop)

Killswitch Engage, Meshugga, Metallica, ACDC, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, some Iron Maiden.

Much japanese music.
Game Soundtracks (eg Devil May Cry 3 & 4, Yakuza 3 & 4, Persona 3 & 4, Final Fantasy's, Metal Gear)
Movie Soundtracks
Anime Soundtracks

I hate mainstream music extraordinarily in general.

btw next time Video Games Live is in Germany, I'm SO there.
"One Winged Angel" by an orchestra, enough said.

[matheus23]

The componist of this piece died today:

[... snip]

The top one has rubbish sound quality, because it was recorded in an industrial hall. The one below has much better audio, but there is only one pianist. Enjoy for the full 15 minutes.

[... snip]

I don't know I could bare it while coding. Maybe I'll try it someday, looping it indefinitely, until my ears get infected from the angel pissing in them.

The guy in the second video is very good. He seems like playing this is very easy.
This piece also really seems to be not too hard to play, but the fact he does all those accents on some special parts makes it nice to hear.
(I can't say anything about the first video. Couldn't see anything there.)

The fact that you are even able to loop it infinitely is probably due to the structure of the song. It's too long with different variations of the same fluid melody. It's important that the melody is fluid, because then your brain almost everytime recognizes some new sounds in this awesome piece of music.

I really need to get my hands on those music sheets...

EDIT: The guy seems to do very much improvisation too. He's really good.

[gimbal]

Nowadays I listen to a beautiful and timeless musical piece called Silence. Not in any way related to Sarah Mclachlan, I mean literal silence. I used to listen to really noisy music; metal, Nine Inch Nails (a genre of its own) and other forms of electric guitar-driven music from old school 60's rock music to the original Smashing Pumpkins. But basically as I got closer to 30 everything changed and peace and quiet became very important.

I don't care much for music at all anymore to be honest. In stead of staying with the times I've basically gone the other way; when I listen to music now its usually something from the 60's, 70's or 80's. The music just had more soul back then if you ask me.

Much japanese music.
Game Soundtracks (eg Devil May Cry 3 & 4, Yakuza 3 & 4, Persona 3 & 4, Final Fantasy's, Metal Gear)
Movie Soundtracks
Anime Soundtracks

I can highly recommend you to seek out the work of Stephane Picq, who was the musical composer at Cryo and responsible for the soundtracks of such games as the original Dune adventure game, Lost Eden, Mega Race, etc. He 'accidentally' released full music scores of the Dune and Lost Eden soundtracks; especially the Dune soundtrack (called Spice Opera) is awesome. The Lost Eden soundtrack is basically a high quality version of the in-game music.

[counterp]

HIPSTER MUSIC~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDVW81bXo0s

[ReBirth]

Much japanese music.
...
Anime Soundtracks

Example?

[Ultroman]

Much japanese music.
...
Anime Soundtracks

Example?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/U7mPqycQ0tQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/U7mPqycQ0tQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

?

[ra4king]

Much japanese music.
...
Anime Soundtracks

Example?

{ youtube video }

Ah I know this song too! The girls are so hot........man I have terrible yellow fever............. I'll be in my cabin......

[ReBirth]

Girl Generation members are unarguably hot. However back to the context, they're Korean not Japanese

[ra4king]

Don't care. Still fapped.

[philfrei]

http://hexara.com/Audio/SweetTusa.mp3

In memorium: Tusa, our cat. Poor sweet creature stopped eating and faded very fast. (Don't know how old--she adopted us about 10 years ago. But too old for blood tests, said the vet.) Two days ago was the last time she was able to jump up onto the printer and hang out in her bed next to where I program. Today she could no longer hold her head up to drink from a water bowl.

I recorded this about a year ago. It's one of several of my own pieces I sometimes put on while coding, letting it loop a few times before going to something else. Just a simple background with a keyboard improvisation over it.

All the stem sounds are ones that can be synthesized via Java, using FM synthesis, except I don't know how to program the interesting filter modulation that randomly varies over one of the background voices. There's a bit of chorus and reverb in there that I haven't figured out yet either.

One of these days I'll succeed in turning this into a generative piece of some sort.

[OverKill]

House music from a Polish online radio station. Mostly because the amount of 'singing' or verbal sounds are limited and those tend to cause mental focus issues for me. Though it should not be void of such sounds, just not constant babbling.
Mind you, I do not speak Polish, I just like their program and you hardly hear any commercials.

[Corvid]

Normally I listen to metal such as Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad, but when coding I just can't stand it, it's like being constantly reminded I should be out drinking and headbanging

While coding my 4k entry I've been listening to an album by Wardruna called Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga.  It's like living on a viking longship, all horns, shouts and throaty noises.  And I can't understand a word of it. The sound of lone horns drifting on the wind gets my hackles up.

Sound quality is a bit poor on this one, but the woman's voice is incredible (and she is rather hot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMDcTnezvU

[Gjallar]

http://hexara.com/Audio/SweetTusa.mp3

In memorium: Tusa, our cat. Poor sweet creature stopped eating and faded very fast. (Don't know how old--she adopted us about 10 years ago. But too old for blood tests, said the vet.) Two days ago was the last time she was able to jump up onto the printer and hang out in her bed next to where I program. Today she could no longer hold her head up to drink from a water bowl.

My goodness, I'm sorry  ... "Today she could no longer hold her head up to drink from a water bowl", wouldn't it have been a better option to release her before that point? The cat must not have felt that good at this point