Mythruna

cant remember if i posted this before, but i've actually got my first programming job (and pretty much a day after final classes) and i've been putting together a programming soundtrack, just something that will get my fingers running and not to distracting, i found electronic-classical works strangely well together (i cant think of the name it truly is but imagine electronic violins and a faster tempo classical music feel lol)

so i'm putting it out to the community, what else would you listen to in order to study/work. Nothing super catchy because...well i get distracted easily lol

Music from a different language is always my go-to when I need to be productive.

A while back I setup a Pandora station with just crappy dance-pop stuff.  It was all up beat and I didn't really know any of it well enough to sing along so it worked well when my brain didn't need to fire on all cylinders.  Unfortunately, it was a short-lived thing because eventually I learned the words and now the station doesn't work anymore. :)

Lately I've been listening to movie sound tracks like the music from Brave, Pirates of the Caribbean, and soundtracks like that.  It also happens to help with what I'm working on because the style fits. :)  Sometimes it is distracting in that it makes me want to go work on Mythruna's music.

Along those lines, there's a genre of music that sounds like movie/game soundtracks but was never for any movie or game.  Relevant artists here are folks like Jo Blankenburg, Future World Music, James Dooley.

Also on Pandora, I have a blues station... but mostly that's because I started taking guitar lessons again recently and it helps build up my brain's catalog of blues riffs if I listen to it in the background.

Most of my hardcore work lately, I don't listen to music at all.

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxFNsAMD_7s

...nice and inspiring for when I work on Mythruna music.

I don't know about programming, but music like that would be awesome for novel-writing!

some artists i love who are similar to what you are talking about are
Trancecrafter https://soundcloud.com/trancecrafter/the-epic-album-tc-2010-2011
Lindsey Stirling https://soundcloud.com/lindseystomp/crystallize-1
RamesesB https://soundcloud.com/ramesesb/taking-you-higher-pt-2-mix
Owsey https://soundcloud.com/owsey/above-beyond-feat-zo-johnston
and almost anything from this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/SuicideSheeep

Worth checking if you like that type of music iggy :]

Yes, in fact that's originally why I picked it up.

Great suggestions thanks, I'll be adding the when I head in tomorrow

I just love some instrumental music (Such as Approaching Nirvana) when I am trying to be productive. Normally when the music is at a semi-fast pace, it encourages me not to spend 20 minutes on a simple math equation [example: [plot the point (0, 0) on a coordinate plane]].