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New coding music :D
« on October 21st, 2011, 01:29 PM »
I listen to a variety of music when coding, but most frequently it's metal or heavier rock. Queen through Meat Loaf, Iron Maiden and Nightwish are typically on that list.

And today, I present the latest addition to my coding tracklist.


Greatest Battle Music Of All Times: To Glory

There's just something awesome about coding to something like this.
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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #3, on October 24th, 2011, 01:36 AM »
That's pretty neat for an acoustic guitar, and quite nice as coding backdrop actually :)

Also, I'd come across Eric (from the above poster), in particular his Pirates of the Caribbean meets Metal and Castlevania meets Metal. Links are not hard to find from the video...

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #4, on October 24th, 2011, 06:07 AM »

Tommy Emmanuel & Joscho Stephan - "Honeysuckle Rose" Live in Raalte, April 2006

I've been getting into Gypsy Jazz more and more lately.  Tommy Emmanuel & Joscho Stephan are my two favorites.  Sometimes you'd swear that the ghost of Django Reinhardt is living in the both of them.

Emmanuel is also the protege of the late-great Chet Atkins, and excels at the finger picking style of Atkins.  Here he is playing a medley of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed.


Tommy Emmanuel Jerry Reed/ Chet Tribute HIDef

And then seeing how much fun Emmanuel has playing with his older brother Phil... makes me long for the days when my brothers and I would have this kind of fun at anything.


Tommy and Phil Emmanuel,1999, - El Cumbanchero - Rarity.

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #6, on October 24th, 2011, 11:58 PM »
My current playlist, in order:

Conan the Barbarian OST
Darwinia OST
Jean Michel Jarre Rarities
Jochen Hippel compilation
Shatter OST
Attack Number 1 OST (an old '69 Japanese show...)
Mike Oldfield Incantations Remastered
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Arayeshe Khorshid
Daft Punk vs Basic Slack
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST
Alcest - a couple of albums (post-metal)
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Holon (post-jazz?)
Mike Oldfield - The Space Movie OST
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Back from the brink (3 LPs)
Agalloch - The Mantle (post-metal)
X-Men: First Class OST
Mutyumu - 2 albums (post-metal or post-pop, not sure, pretty good stuff)
Radiant Historia - Piano Arrange OST
Jets'n'Guns OST
DRC Music - Kinshasa one two (Damon Albarn + Congo artists)
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Urusei Yatsura - OST Lum's Best Selection 2
Kino no tabi - Image Album OST
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt 2 OST
Bandyta OST

Some of these things are well known... Others are quite obscure. I just love looking like I'm a specialist :P But I'm just basically a sucker for OSTs. Today's discovery is Bandyta (the playlist is sorted by date added), and it's very much like Goran Bregovic stuff -- a keeper!

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #7, on October 25th, 2011, 12:31 AM »
I can't resist showing off one more Tommy Emmanuel number.  It'll mean more to you if you're familiar with Nat King Cole's rendition of "Mona Lisa."  I'm not sure how popular that song ever got outside of the USA.


Tommy Emmanuel (2001): 15.MonaLisa
Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #8, on October 25th, 2011, 01:47 AM »
Nao, you might like the OST for Angel Beats[1]. Also in the anime they had their own rock band which was really good called Girls Dead Monster (or GirlsDeMo as they are sometimes called). I saw some J-Music in your playlist which is why I feel I should recommended them to you.

Also, does anybody use any kind of online music service to listen to songs? Like Spotify or Pandora?
 1. Not sure if you've seen it yet or not, but the music was amazing.

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #9, on October 26th, 2011, 10:54 AM »
How shall I put it... I've given a look at the first episode. Uh.
If I want to watch a show where the music was composed by the creator/writer, I'll watch Kaamelott. Plus, the man is also the director, main actor and generally a nice guy.
If I want to watch a surrealistic high-school show with a fantastic soundtrack, I'll watch Revolutionary Girl Utena.
If I want to watch a Japanese production with a soundtrack of timeless classic proportions, and that's about a purgatory world where you have to help your friends 'cross over', I'll watch the Haibane Renmei anime show. If I just want a purgatory story stuck in reality with a nice OST, I'll go for the 'Afterlife' (Beautiful Life) live action movie.

What I mean is, I'm not really sure what's in it for me with Angel Beats. It looks like a basic high-school show for zettai-ryôiki otakus. The guy wrote Kanon -- I've heard so many people say it's a fantastic show, but it doesn't cut it for me because the character-design is so awfully lolicon with wide eyes that make me wanna puke.

Alright, I didn't put it properly but I'm all ears :P

Great anime soundtracks for me: Saint Seiya, Kaze no tairiku (Weathering continent), Kamui no ken (Dagger of Kamui), Arete Hime (Princess Arete), Ie Naki Ko (Nobody's Boy Rémi), The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Berserk, Kaiba... This one being probably the most recent show that drew me to it. It was like 5 years ago... I haven't since seen a show that grabbed my interest, soundtrack-wise. Apart maybe from the psychedelic 30-minute version of the opening to Eden of the East, but it was written by Noel Gallagher... Hardly a typical anime song... ;)

Oh my, I so want to discover new interesting Japanese soundtracks!

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #10, on October 26th, 2011, 03:00 PM »
I have to admit, Japanese music hasn't ever really been my thing; I'm not an anime fan though I suspect it's because I've just never found quite the right material to introduce me to the genre properly, but my tastes are pretty specific for things I really get into.

Another one that's quite good for coding, daft as it sounds is:

Why is the Rum Gone? - Remix

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #11, on October 26th, 2011, 03:46 PM »
Super lame, thus pretty cool ;)

As for anime -- it's hard to recommend anything when (1) 95% of what was produced in the 2000's is horribly formulaic and anything that was done before will probably show its age, (2) I have no idea what you're looking for in TV shows or movies -- story, characters, originality, good music (if yes, which genre? For jazz fans look at Cowboy Bebop or Blue Submarine 6, for classical music fans look at Saint Seiya, for tribal rock look at Dagger of Kamui, and I could go on for hours), design (and if yes, which type? European, Japanese, Disney?), animation quality (some people don't bother, some care about it), etc... Or maybe you need all of the above to enjoy something :P

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #12, on October 26th, 2011, 03:59 PM »
I like a TV show and a film that's interesting to watch, reasonably well paced (I have a lowish boredom factor when it comes to passive entertainment), and is sufficiently deep that there's something for my brain to dig into. That's why, for example, watching DW season 4 was interesting but nowhere near the levels of excitement I had watching seasons 5 and 6, because there's more going on in the background for me to chew over.

Music... really, the music in TV and film doesn't tend to grab me unless it's *seriously memorable* or *seriously epic*. I don't own many film soundtracks, for example.[1] It's mostly because they don't do a lot for me, as it were. If the dialogue's good, that's going to keep my attention more than the music is.

Musically I tend to favour rock, not-so-heavy metal and stuff like that. My playlist is primarily Queen, Meat Loaf, Iron Maiden, Nightwish and Murray Gold(!) with interludes from Bon Jovi, ABBA(!!), David Bowie, Aerosmith and stuff like that, plus whatever I happen to find of interest on YouTube.
 1. To put in perspective, the film soundtracks I own are: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Flash Gordon, the three Lord of the Rings soundtrack albums, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Labyrinth, and Clerks II. I have almost more computer game soundtracks than I do film soundtracks. That said, I do have the soundtracks from the first 5 seasons of Doctor Who, because somehow that's actually more memorable to me.

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #13, on October 26th, 2011, 08:13 PM »Last edited on October 26th, 2011, 09:46 PM by tfs
Why is the rum gone?  LOL!  :)  I loved that one.

You guys like to bang around a lot when programming.  I usually play unobtrusive music of a high melody symmetry, and the rhythmic portion is carried largely by the melody.  For instance, I believe that J. S. Bach is one of the greatest programming music composers ever.  He closes every loop, defines every variable, remembers every close paren.  It's mathematical precision of a very high order, and it gets my brain on the same wavelength.

This song right here, played just audibly, would be my style if I were coding to save my life.  :)

J. S. Bach: Allemande from Suite in e-minor BWV 996 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

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Re: New coding music :D
« Reply #14, on October 26th, 2011, 08:17 PM »
I find coding to be somewhere between art and science, so having a rhythm to work with stimulates my brain through the tedious bits and counterpoints the exciting, daring artistic bits. Or something, anyway.
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