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I work at home and work and play muted music in the background.

Since I work with words, the music must not have lyrics. I have a few favorites. Bach's double violin concerto in D minor. Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. I've recently found dark ambience stuff that works.

Any ideas?

I made a pandora station based on this song (not artist, song and artist together). Its very good for focus and calm.

https://youtu.be/0cHeNscKZN0

surf guitar

Traditional Japanese Kabuki theatre music

Ive been listening to odd stuff you may like:

Visual Kei style - bands like X-Japan

Pirate Metal - Alestorm is a fav

Wizard rock - Harry and the Potters

Bubblegum Dance - Taxi Driver by Dr. Bombay is recommended

William Shatner covers.

Seriously. Google it up.

you may prefer Lowercase.

Try Bell is the Truth (the Berlin edition)


I like Japanese Danger Music - Hanatarash.

Gojira

I like a lot of the ambient mixes this Frequency Therapist dude does. Mostly dig his space trance type stuff.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm4ZvmDACY[/youtube]

What does it matter if you mute it

Bongripper

buckethead wrote:What does it matter if you mute it

Good question.

I like music in the background, maybe just to not feel so all alone when I'm working.

Joaquin Rodrigo.

You know how to rip music off of YouTube, right? Here's some tunes I like running in the background. I know them because my daughter plays them on the piano at home. There are other, maybe better versions out there. Hans Zimmer has some good stuff.

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2HunQtpP7E[/youtube]

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klVu9IxLnWE[/youtube]

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHeW2hbqXs[/youtube]

This one is a piano cover of a Korean k-pop song. She plays this all the time.

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSRQooyODw[/youtube]

Better version? http://youtu.be/NAqV4zPsw6I

Check out Ludovico Einaudi. Done a lot of film and tv scores I think. Recently discovered him after googling a tv theme song. Turned out to be great background music for work.

I like John Fahey and later American primitives.

There is a lotta stuff to work with here. Thanks for all the suggestions. I will work my way through them although I may skip Shatner covers.

I listen to Scott Joplin and other pre-depression piano stuff. And Benny Goodman. But I grew up with this kinda stuff in the house, so it's relaxing, thought-free music.

stosh wrote:I listen to Scott Joplin and other pre-depression piano stuff. And Benny Goodman. But I grew up with this kinda stuff in the house, so it's relaxing, thought-free music.

Good calls. I like Duke Ellington and Benny Carter.

When I was in Qatar, I bought a CD of arab "chill" music as an experiment. It should have been labeling "chilling" as it sounded like an hour long recording of heads getting chopped off. Don't buy that.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oekpl28S_U[/youtube]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... 9GFuwxo8yQ

William Shatner with Henry Rollins

What's your appetite for classical?

Bach Brandenburg Concerto's and Orchestral Suites:

(The Brandenburg #5 is excellent.)

More somber and repetitive, but very interesting if you like Bach, the Art of Fugue, here paired with the Musical Offering:

Most performances of Art of Fugue are very dry. This one is not.

Vivaldi.
Mozart Piano Concerto's.

Try Techno

Goldberg variations - and anything by Bach for that matter.
Camille Saint Saens's Piano concertos.
Chopin - everything
Mozart - everything
Vivaldi - everything
Opera, especially Italian

Light jazz
If you get tired of original classics Jacques Loussier's trio - they make jazz covers for Bach, Mozart etc.
Bobby Timmons
Modern Jazz Quartet