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Discussion on: Listening to music while working - Yay or nay and what to listen to

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Antonio Radovcic

For no-brainer-activities like updating tasks, HTML/CSS etc. I listen to podcasts, or music like Ryan Adams, John Mayer, Damien Rice, nothing heavy.

For "deep" work (at least as deep as interface-development gets 😬) I have two playlists I listen to:

Slow scary industrial techno-music

Indie-game soundtracks (my own playlist)

Also there is this pretty awesome website listentothe.cloud, where you can listen to live airport-chatter mixed with ambient-music from Soundcloud. Works pretty well!

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Dan Newton

"slow scary industrial techno" sounds appropriate for software development 😄

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Antonio Radovcic

Oh and I think "spooky" is a better word, not "scary"

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Antonio Radovcic

Maybe "industrial" is usually something else, but it's mostly some slow subgenre of techno, like youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ

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Dean Richardson 💻

Thanks for the recommendation of listentothe.cloud - Strangely satisfying!