#11 Curated Focus | Part 2: Channels for coding (or infinite music)
A musical exploratory experiment to discover music to focus ◄(^_^)►
THIS WEEK: Home Office DJ · Di.Fm · Rock Radio · Chilled Cow · Le Bon Rap · MusicForProgramming · FreeCodeCamp
Right at the beginning of the quarantine Thomas asked in twitter what people listen when coding. He got lots of wonderful recommendations, and today we want to share with you 7 Channels (or long playlists) that people recommended.
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Playlist: Home Office DJ
Listen on: Apple Music
Shared by: @gbougakov
By the author:
"The location may have changed, but you still have work to do. This uptempo, easygoing playlist—covering the best in recent pop, dance, hip-hop, R&B and more—is designed to carry everyone through from 9 to 5, wherever you might be clocking in from."
Site: Di.FM (electronic radio)
Listen on: Their site
Shared by: @amberRoyVR
Author: @diradio
By the author:
DI.FM is a multi-channel internet radio service that focuses exclusively on Electronic Music. Today our team of curators sifts through petabytes of new releases and back catalogs to find only the best from each genre or style, but it wasn't always like that.
Channel: Rock Radio
Listen on: Their website
Shared by: @drodsou
Rock Radio provides more than 30 channels of human-curated rock music. Our mission is to provide the widest selection of music with the fewest interruptions.
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Channel: Chilled cow
Listen on: YouTube / Spotify / Every other music streaming
Genre: Low Fi Hip Hop
Shared by: a ton of people, actually this was THE most shared music link from the thread
Site: Le Bon Rap
Listen on: Their website (with links to youTube)
Shared by: @hyperVillain (the curator of the site)
If you are or have been close to Hip Hop or Rap, you would know that French hip hop and rap are famous to be really good. Well, this channel has a bunch of awesome curated music!
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Playlist: MusicForProgramming.net
Listen on: Spotify / Their website
Author: @datassette
Shared by: @konrad_keska
The website is the most nerdy awesome website you will find around to play music. In there, there is no only a very code oriented design, but also the curation of the songs is made so that you can actually focus when in need of concentration. Here the abstract:
Through years of trial and error - skipping around internet radio stations, playing our entire music collections on shuffle, or just hammering single albums on repeat, we have found that the most effective music to aid prolonged periods of intense concentration tends to have a mixture of the following qualities:
Drones
Noise
Fuzz
Field recordings
Vagueness (Hypnagogia)
Textures without rhythm
Minor complex chords
Early music (Baroque, lute, harpsichord)
Very few drums or vocals
Synth arpeggios
Awesome / daunting / foreboding
Walls of reverb
Music possessing these qualities can often provide just the right amount of interest to occupy the parts of your brain that would otherwise be left free to wander and lead to distraction during your work.
Channel: FreeCodeCamp radio
Listen on: Their website
Shared by: @hamadler
Curated by: @TreblesandBlues
The channel in the words of Lawrence Yeo:
Instrumental downtempo music, which is relaxing and non-distracting. My grad school classmates and I had listened to thousands of hours of this type of music while studying and hadn’t gotten bored of it yet. So it seemed like a safe bet for a coding live stream as well.
Yay or nay? What do you thing about curated focus? Have some shareworthy music for the next issue? Send us an email
Until the next!
