Lately I've been listening to Last.fm. I just type in a band I know I like, and let it handle the rest. I feel like I've heard every song in my 5,000+ play list so this new system is a be refresher on my music listening.
rjd2, madlib, nujabes, quantic, prefuse 73, tycho, peanutbutter wolf colboration cds, massive attack mazzine, intellifunk, after that its all stuff more related to movie scores, transformers, hero,last samurai, etc
Ambient/instrumentals for being creative. More melodic, engaging music for just getting the work done. Hardcore/Death metal and gangsta rap when I hate what I'm doing at work.
Edit: Oh yeah, Ebagg, if you were actually asking for some good ambient artist recommendations, I've been checking these ones out lately:
J.Viewz - Very cool ambient psy-trance/break-beat.
Shulman - Probably the most chilled out ambient psy-trance I've ever heard, may put you into a coma, in a good way. Venetian Snares - Check out the album "Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett". Swings between very ambient orchestral scores and intense dnb/break-beat. Sounds crazy but it works really well. (BTW, that glitchy computer part of the music video doesn't occur on the album)
Unearth seems to get my creative juices flowing, sometimes throw on The Warriors, Casey Jones or Evergreen Terrace.
Oh, and Aesop Rock, Bliss N' Eso, Wu-Tang Clan or some NWA if I feel like some hip-hop.
hmmm lately at work i've been listening to Tom Clancy audio books. I have a pretty good collection of them so it mixes up the music and lets me hear a book i don't have the spare time to read.
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Any time I'm at a creative low the bladerunner ost gets things going like magic, it's become like a habit. Try listening to it, you may become Per.
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Inspires creativity. Fuck yes.
Makes you like Per. Thank god, no.
depends what mood im in. my favs to work to,not nessarily ambient either include ladytron,metallica (specifically the album with the San fran Orchistra) and some classical stuff,Military bands and of course the fantastic Age of Empires 3 soundtrack.
Mood is a big player in this one. Because right now, it's finals time at school, and I'm so stressed that I just want to listen to softer stuff. So it's a lot of Electronica and progressive rock bands.
- Amon Tobin
- Amy Winehouse
- Bob Marley
- Conjure One
- David Holmes
- Delerium
- E.S Posthumus
- Enigma
- Enya
- Harry-Gregson-Williams
- John Powell
- Rupert-Gregson-Williams
Most of the time I find myself listening to Korn at work, however. Kind of hard being an artist, stuck in a scripting job
Goldfrapp, Royksopp and the newer stuff from Gary Numan are also pretty good. Can't forget about the classics, either. I've got AC/DC, CCR and The Doors on standby, for when I need some good old fashioned music.
I listen to groove salad mainly, 'course there's enough chatting and joking with coworkers going on that I'm not listening to it at work as much as I used to.
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hah at first I thought..how the hell can you listen to audio books and still devote maximum concentration to your work.. then I figured... listening to Tom Clancy describe at great length how many nuts and bolts are in an F16 or go on for 45 minutes about the political unrest in southeast asia might be kind of soothing. His endless repetition might also be taken as a chant I guess.
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haha yeah he can go on and on about details but I have read a lot of his books and really enjoy them. Plus it was a change of pace while texturing this week instead of listening to other stuff.
I usually only listen to rock...either 90's or 60s/70s. Currently listening to the entire Led Zeppelin collection...I used to listen to a big playlist on random, but I found myself just skipping a bunch of songs because they were distracting...I find listening to just one band at a time makes it easier for it to fade into the background.
Other things I've been listening to while working - All of Tomahawk but mostly the album "Anonymous" (songs based on old native american songs...kind of chanting just with Mike Patton.) Metallica - S&M and all of Blind Melon
I listen to 3d buzz sometimes or any other tutorial with a voice over that I happen to like or my itunes list which include all kind of crap like Metallica, Bon jovi, Enya, Poison, Guns N Roses, don't laugh too much, Avril Lavigne, Roxette many other pop artist, some country music and lots of 80 rock. My library is currently 8.5 hours. Depending on my mood it can be distracting though so I lower the volume when that happens.
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www.last.fm if you're interested. Give it a go.
Edit: Oh yeah, Ebagg, if you were actually asking for some good ambient artist recommendations, I've been checking these ones out lately:
J.Viewz - Very cool ambient psy-trance/break-beat.
Shulman - Probably the most chilled out ambient psy-trance I've ever heard, may put you into a coma, in a good way.
Venetian Snares - Check out the album "Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett". Swings between very ambient orchestral scores and intense dnb/break-beat. Sounds crazy but it works really well. (BTW, that glitchy computer part of the music video doesn't occur on the album)
Oh, and Aesop Rock, Bliss N' Eso, Wu-Tang Clan or some NWA if I feel like some hip-hop.
-caseyjones
I'm into a lot of tracker music as well. A good compilation is on keygenmusic.com , also 8bitpeoples.
di.fm has some decent streams for goa/psytrance and occasionally DNB that doesn't suck.
Boards of Canada, DNTEL, Explosions in the Sky, Giardini di Mir
I don't think that paragraph made any sense.
Just got into the last.fm goodness, pretty sweet deal. Get amongst it!
-caseyjones
hiphops: aesop rock, atmosphere, the roots, a tribe called quest, rjd2, jedi mind tricks, digable planets, fugees, amy winehouse, mos def
rocks: the national, andrew bird, spoon, cold war kids, white stripes, the strokes, ummm and more random stuff
Any time I'm at a creative low the bladerunner ost gets things going like magic, it's become like a habit. Try listening to it, you may become Per.
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Inspires creativity. Fuck yes.
Makes you like Per. Thank god, no.
Oh since we're talking ambient, how can we forget Sigur Ros?
John
- Amon Tobin
- Amy Winehouse
- Bob Marley
- Conjure One
- David Holmes
- Delerium
- E.S Posthumus
- Enigma
- Enya
- Harry-Gregson-Williams
- John Powell
- Rupert-Gregson-Williams
Most of the time I find myself listening to Korn at work, however. Kind of hard being an artist, stuck in a scripting job
Goldfrapp, Royksopp and the newer stuff from Gary Numan are also pretty good. Can't forget about the classics, either. I've got AC/DC, CCR and The Doors on standby, for when I need some good old fashioned music.
Hmm, 2 recommendations for Boards of Canada, gotta check them out.
Oh since we're talking ambient, how can we forget Sigur Ros?
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Yes yes you do. Their best album by far is Geogaddi. It's like being on drugs with none of the negatives. :P
Awesome fanmade video from that album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_73n1G0j_0
I tend to stick to stuff with a beat for when I'm working on things though (yes Venetian Snares has a beat, you just have to look a little for it.)
Linkin Park
Alternative
Misc. VG soundtracks...inspiration.
I listen to groove salad mainly, 'course there's enough chatting and joking with coworkers going on that I'm not listening to it at work as much as I used to.
or those tracks, that when put on repeat, you never notice that it started over again
Nickelback
Linkin Park
Alternative
Misc. VG soundtracks...inspiration.
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Do not listen to this man. I'm pretty sure if you subject yourself to Nickelhack your art will only become progressively worse. :P
hah at first I thought..how the hell can you listen to audio books and still devote maximum concentration to your work.. then I figured... listening to Tom Clancy describe at great length how many nuts and bolts are in an F16 or go on for 45 minutes about the political unrest in southeast asia might be kind of soothing. His endless repetition might also be taken as a chant I guess.
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haha yeah he can go on and on about details but I have read a lot of his books and really enjoy them. Plus it was a change of pace while texturing this week instead of listening to other stuff.
BATTELS
in my car cd player i have--THRICE-Alchemy Index
my music taste range through all genres.
Other things I've been listening to while working - All of Tomahawk but mostly the album "Anonymous" (songs based on old native american songs...kind of chanting just with Mike Patton.) Metallica - S&M and all of Blind Melon
Gav
Alex