Need some background music at work, what are you listening to?

[pete6032]

Question in the title. Looking for something instrumental as lyrics make it difficult to focus.

 

[lxskllr]

Groove Salad
Synphaera
Deep Space One
Drone Zone
Secret Agent

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edit:
I also like some of the youtube ai music. It is what it is. It maintains a mood that would be hard with real music. I like soft piano jazz, especially when it's cool and rainy. My search is "jazz cafe". When I find something I like, I rip it with yt-dlp. If you're really listening, it's not great, but for /something/ going in the background, it scratches an itch.

 

[Gizmo j]

These are my 2 favorite instrumental albums, well they're not actually albums but soundtracks. They're both about computers basically.

One thing I like about these soundtracks is that's it was made originally and specifically for the movie and game.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Khruangbin

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

There's about a billion videos on YouTube of game soundtracks, remixes, lofi edits, 'themed' ambience, non-themed, etc. I've usually got a few things I bounce between and my 'reading/working' playlist (managed by my SO) has like a thousand tracks on it.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Fully expecting to see some obscure bullshit from some of ya'll:

Jerry and the Cocopuffs
The Butthole Bread Collective
Shmear
Toot Sweet and the Bang-Bangs
Shelob

 

[nOOky]

Nothing, I hate excess background noise when I need to concentrate. If I had to have something it would be BBC.

 

[nakedfrog]

Khruangbin

Not instrumental, is it?

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't actually listen to it (I'm planning to make an album in the style, though) but maybe some dungeon synth would suit you.

Here's an album from one artist: https://cryocrypt.bandcamp.com/album/shadowlorn
Here's a compilation from different artists: https://totemwilds.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-siege-west-festival-compilation-mmxxv

 

[IronWing]

Kayhan Kalhor
Pretty much any Mongolian morin khuur music
Coyote Oldman
Anonymous 4 (while vocal, the lyrics are almost all in latin so they don’t get in the way)
Kory Reeder - Codex Praxis

 

[IronWing]

Sosena Gebre Eyesus, by Sosena Gebre Eyesus

6 track album

littleaxerecords.bandcamp.com

 

[IronWing]

Djivan Gasparyan

 

[nakedfrog]

@JM Aggie08 You good now?

 

[pete6032]

Nothing, I hate excess background noise when I need to concentrate. If I had to have something it would be BBC.

Thanks for letting us know!

 

[JM Aggie08]

Not instrumental, is it?

Mostly. When there are vocals, it's more 'instrumental' vocals.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Kayhan Kalhor
Pretty much any Mongolian morin khuur music
Coyote Oldman
Anonymous 4 (while vocal, the lyrics are almost all in latin so they don’t get in the way)
Kory Reeder - Codex Praxis

Liar.

 

[nakedfrog]

Liar.

Nah, he's got a long track record of listening to stuff like that. He's one of the only other people I've seen mention DakhaBrakha.

 

[lxskllr]

Other than is peculiar like of choral music, IronWing has a fantastic ear for good music. He's worth paying attention to.

 

[sdifox]

Karajan: Beethoven Symphonies (1963) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2rSElYqhBs3xnKfxq0wXqfK8iR4bXgo7

 

[Torn Mind]

To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger Ending Theme​

 

[Stiff Clamp]

various somaFM.com channels

Also dub techno really creates an atmosphere of subdued intensity, brooding over some industrial landscape. The muffled beats are less intrusive for when you're preoccupied with work, or trying to get going in the morning before being fully awake.
I lean toward the deep atmospheric, ambient, or more meditative mixes. Just listen on YouTube.

 

[nOOky]

Thanks for letting us know!

I'm here for you. Hopefully this is through earbuds so no one else has to listen to it. Some of the stuff folks recommended here is out there lol.