what music do you like to listen to when you're coding (or working in general)? what gets you into the zone?

for work usually psytrance. which is a stark contrast to my "everyday" music selection of rock, metal, darkwave, singer/songwriter, classical and reggae.

@tosensei i also liked listening to psytrance while coding. but currently i'm more into stuff that's less "exciting" :D

Trance, metal, retrowave/synthwave, k-pop... Anything with a rhythm

I listen to talk radio, mostly politics, or rewatch old sitcoms that I already know well.

@acz0903 I admire people who can do this.. two friends of mine listen to podcasts or youtubers while coding. me and my single-threaded brain, I honestly don't know how they do that ^^

Anything new, video, music, audiobooks delivered to my brain to stfu

@soull00t that's the point for me, though: psytrance is, as the name suggests, entrancing - which helps with focussing on such a brainy topic as coding - but it's not really exciting. it's perfect background music, because it can go on forever, never changing so much that it feels like a break, or being too monotonous so it "irons flat" your mind.. but it definitely is not "exciting".

@tosensei hmm I mean, I guess it depends on the subgenre or the artist... i agree that the steady 4/4 beat (+ 16ths patterns) is definitely trancy. but then again it's usually enriched with different musical elements and effects and arcs of suspense that make it diversified again, and at a certain energy level and above (other than e.g. psybient or psydub) for me it's too distracting because it makes me wanna rave instead of work.. ^^

Daft Punk. I can listen to the Homework on a loop all day.

Besides that deadmau5, BSOD, couple of songs by Simon Viklund, Hideki Naganuma and other electronic music artists.

@soull00t well - if i wanna rave, there's aggrotech and industrial. go big (and angry) or go home ;)

Satriani, John Petrucci , Liquid tension experiment and others like that

@soull00t try minimal techno. It should be quite minimal to not be distracting

celtic fuken fantasy rhapsodies, progressive techno, minimal house, instrumental trance, DrDisrespect's VIOLENCE/MOMENTUM/SPEED playlist, chiptunes, happycore, saharan/egyptian lounge/ambiental and sometimes NOTHING.

I find minimal house or progressive trance to be the best ones because they have steady rhythm and the brain works well with that.

Funk and general electronic music

@iiii yeah, i like minimal... that's the amount of energy and complexity i can usually deal with while coding. i just get too easily distracted by music..^^

@soull00t Boris Brejha makes some good minimal techno 🤔

@iiii nice, need to check him out. i also like Dominik Eulberg

@iiii I didn't know this music term so I looked on spotify. I really liked.

Silence, metal, synthwave and stoner rock for me

All kinds of EDM, but I tend to gravitate towards progressive trance. As long as it's upbeat and doesn't have vocals (singing distracts me too easily) then it's good.

anything I'm into at the moment tbh. I'm currently obsessed with AURORA's latest album

Music from C&C Tiberium Conflict, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2