Ok, I start: I like synthwave, synthpop and sovietwave. And it’s not as much a question of focus as the fact music energized me, so lyrics are also ok and even welcome and I don’t get distracted at all.
A lot of prog rock, 70’s rock, and prog metal. I need long winding and pace changing music to keep from stagnating my train of thought for too long. Synthwave and anything Nobuo Uematsu or Yasushi Ishii makes is good too.
I would prefer VGM (video game music), I like its wide range of genre and it’s not repetitive or ALI PROJECT’s albums :\
Normally no because music distracts me, but sometimes I want to feel a bit more chilled out so I put my entire music library on shuffle and just skip songs I don’t want to listen to. So ends up with all sorts of genres.
My go-to’s, with no real rhyme or reason…
Nightride FM - Chillsynth Venice Classical Radio Lofi 24/7 Soma.fm Groove Salad and Drone Zone
Usually Indian classical. It can’t have any lyrics, as I get distracted by them.
Slayer 🤘
soma.fm always has great DJs and streams. Definitely a go to for flow state.
SomaFM really is the best thing on the Internet
when i really have to focus, i listen to dronezone
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80s bestof
Groove Salad for me. Unless I’m updating production severs then I put on Drone Zone to lower my heart rate.
Synthwave is my jam. But, and this is a big Butt, I’m a person who focuses on one job and get distracted too easily. So having any music in the background will distract me. So mute is it then for me.
“this is a big Butt”
Nice.
Video game OSTs with some Lo-Fi sprinkled in, sometimes Jazz. More recently I’ve been having a good time with Bluegrass and Celtic Folk.
These days, I’d usually listen to either a Dungeon Synth playlist (like Mountain Realm, Atrium Carceri, Witch Bolt…) or I’ll listen to my doom/stoner/psych playlist (Mars Red Sky, Colour Haze, Earthless, Kikagaku Mori, Youngblood Supercult…).
Also, there are a few Diablo Lo-fi mixes made by blizzard that really get me in the mood of writing. Tristram theme Lo-fi is also sick.
Acid Jazz/Funk. No overwhelming lyrics, good background noise.
neurofunk/techstep
What do you mean by neurofunk? Is related to baile funk (Brazilian genre)?
Downtempo electronica.
I enjoy non-AI generated music.
hard to come by after YT took away the ability to filter search results by age.
luckily I had ripped a bunch of music from YT before AI was a thing.
mostly around 80s jpop, synth, wave.
Heavy metal to disassociate myself from the office
