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• Music to hack to (Score:1)

  by sri (5109)

  A Perfect Circle [aperfectcircle.com], Massive Attack [massiveattack.com] and NIN [nin.com] make me more productive.
• Angry music (Score:1)

  by claes (1758)

  Such as System of a Down [systemofadown.com] and SliPKnoT [slipknot1.com]
• All kinds (Score:1)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  Glenn Gould playing Bach at the moment; more frequently electronic/dance like Juno Reactor, Dieselboy, and Amon Tobin, or "angry" music like System of a Down or Godsmack.
  • Re:All kinds (Score:1)

    by mary.poppins (3530)

    Glenn Gould playing Bach is my standard coding music. In particular, the Well-Tempered Klavier, book two. It's rock and roll!
    • Re:All kinds (Score:1)

      by educated_foo (3106)

      Good choice. I've been rocking out to the (older) Goldberg Variations and the Art of Fugue recently myself. For WTK 2, I actually prefer a recording by Angela Hewitt, but that could just be because I heard it first.
      • Re:All kinds (Score:1)

        by mary.poppins (3530)

        The older ones? I like the 1981 ones *way* better.
        
        I haven't heard either the Art of Fugue or the Angela Hewitt recording that you refer to. Perhaps I will be able to track them down.
        
        One of my long-term ambitions is to be able to play the whole WTK well. As I don't have access to a piano at the moment, that's going to have to wait for a long while.
        • Re:All kinds (Score:1)

          by educated_foo (3106)

          Which recording did you hear first? I think the 1956 vs. 1981 preference is just a combination of primacy and familiarity. I only recently got the 1981, so perhaps I will prefer it once I've had a chance to listen more.

          As for other recordings: If you're in the Bay Area I think the Berkeley public library (still) has the Hewitt. AoF is sort of strange, with about half played on an organ, so it's an acquired taste.

          Having learned some Bach on the guitar at one point, I can't imagine being able to develo
• Re: (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Moby — First cool hive

  Anything ambient/chillout, really. (See http://del.icio.us/ap/netradio [del.icio.us])

  Also, just about anything Oliver Lieb has produced.
  • me too (Score:2)

    by lachoy (1663)

    I like ambient while coding too, although I also tend toward electronica as well. Music with words is too distracting, unless I've heard it a million times before.
• Musique (Score:1)

  by pemungkah (3)

  Interesting stuff from various people I know:

  • vogelscheiss.com for classically-influenced stuff
  • stevecastellano.com for fun technoish electronica (I particularly like "Increased in Strength" - vocal samples are taken from a promo movie for stereo recordings; the repeating mantra of "innovation ... invention ... innovation ... invention ..." at 144 BPM gets my creative juices really flowing)
  • doubtfulpalace.com (Shalamaneser, Mercaptan, Phosphene Grid, Slaw)
  • U2, Sting, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Laurie Anderson...

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