Comments on: Music to Code

By: Damon Cook

Damon Cook — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:24:08 +0000

In reply to Patty. Standing desks rock Patty, and I also work at one. I think we can all have our own definitions of being productive, while dancing and coding. ;-)

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:14:02 +0000

I must respectively disagree that music for coding shouldn’t make you want to dance. I have a standing desk to keep my back healthy, and when I’m at my most productive I blast old classic R&B like James Brown, Etta James, etc. and dance around the room when a truly great song comes on.

But I’m totally with you as far as Music for Airports by Brian Eno. That’s one of my favorite albums of all time.. I’ve never heard anything else to quite compare with it in ethereal calm beauty…

By: theme revel

theme revel — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:21:51 +0000

you forgot to put metallic on the list lol

By: Damon Cook

Damon Cook — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:34:43 +0000

In reply to Carrie Forde. I love me some Bonobo, Flying Lotus, Mt. Kimbie, and DJ Cam too! Going to check this out. Thanks Carrie!

By: Carrie Forde

Carrie Forde — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:39:31 +0000

Some of my faves in the chill/trip-hop electronic genre include Bonobo, Four Tet, Mono/Poly, Maribou State, Gramatik , Flying Lotus, Mt. Kimbie, DJ Cam, Nightmares on Wax, and more…

A fave “get stuff done” artist (and fave all-around), is STS9.

Spotify does have some great playlists for this purpose. Their Electronic Study Music is still a fave: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/65y98W0UItf73DJKVgylTP.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:21:55 +0000

In reply to Damon Cook.

No worries 🙂 I went ahead and make a playlist of your recommendations in case anyone wants to use it. It’s set to be “collaborative” (not sure how that works).

https://open.spotify.com/user/121994160/playlist/1fYxo3IQG3IJAotA1vOQ81

By: Damon Cook

Damon Cook — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:14:49 +0000

In reply to Steve. Unfortunately, I'm not a Spotify user. I am an iTunes Match subscriber, but can't share playlists from Apple (yet). Doh!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:49:34 +0000

Damon, thank you for the post. I love listening to all kinds of music while coding. Last week it was classical music other times I fire up some pop music, electronic, or melodic fast metal. Do you have a Spotify playlist that you could share?

By: Edoardo

Edoardo — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:43:55 +0000

You should definitely check out “Music to Code by”, by Carl Franklin http://mtcb.pwop.com , the host of the podcast .Net Rocks

By: Damon Cook

Damon Cook — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:46:46 +0000

In reply to James Bullis.

Yes, these recommendations are all about getting in the “flow”. Couldn’t of said it better. 🙂

Any particular Chill playlists you would like to share James?