Do you actually code to that or are you thinking about work like hammering nails? (I’d clean the house to it myself.)
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damn it why do I gotta run out of likes when I get here?
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I wasn’t sure if people would think it was a joke. While technically I haven’t listened to Burning Inside in a while, that’s the kind of music that lets me focus my mind on doing something. It’s like there is a whirling/screaming/perpetually bored part of my brain that is always in my way, and giving it something to angrily scream along to lets me think.
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One of my faves (vid is so-so, I mean the song.)
In fact, experience the whole albumin:
Yes, I can code to this, like a mf’in whirling dervish.
A new fave, just discovered:
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My work music often defaults to all time favorites.
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Boards of Canada
The Geese and the Ghost
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Mostly whatever the random number god chooses, but I want to point out two rather different “works while working” artists:
The Goldberg Variations by Bach, the repetition makes it easy for me to reach a focused trance completely concentrated on the job at hand (e.g. the Open Goldberg Variations).
Sarah Sophie, a singer-songwriter with neat melodies and (more often than not) typical girl-being meets/loves/hates boy-being lyrics - after some time it’s just a nice background noise, I don’t need to listen to the texts as they are so cliche-ridden : ) And her drummer is actually a beatboxer <3
In college, when I really had to focus and study, I would put on Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier – I think that I had a 6 disc set that I would just put in my CD changer for all-nighters (it tended to get me in the “zone”)
Now, I just use anything on the mellow side – no real preferences.
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And the winner is
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I’ll throw Aphex Twin in the mix, but that one in particularly is a little too ambient for me in large doses. I stop concentrating on working and start concentrating on napping. Ambient 1 is a little more energetic.
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So, then. Burt Bacharach?
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It’s good for working on digging holes to bury people random things in the back yard.
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Download?
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& you gotta listen to the one that comes up right after it, too… really interesting klezmer-like, traditional and jazz fusion weirdness… that I like.
Aw great now I’ll have that jaunty little tune in my head all damn day.
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Well, I have the video with the gourds in my head now… Oh man!!!
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My favorite musical feelings listening to something and going, “what the hell is that?”
It sounds like a klezmer shakuhachi with gutteral undertones accompanied by a dulcimer, technics organ, and fiddle.
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Ah,it is a kaval, which is in the same family as the shakuhachi, but played in Azerbaijan and some parts of moldovia. Where is bela bartock when you need him, eh?
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They have a Nord Electro 4 in the background. They could absolutely, totes bust this out in a heartbeat.
I would be surprised if they don’t for encores.
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