What kind of music do you listen to?

[0x0@programming.dev]

It's probably easier to list what i don't listen to: most country, hip-hop, rap, overly-noisy metal (where you can't really understand what the singer's grunting about), most pop.
Lately i've been listening mostly to Tool, Jinjer, Asian Dub Foundation and Thievery Corporation.
Tomorrow, who knows, maybe Madredeus or Garbage (the old stuff).

[zod000@lemmy.ml]

When programming I tend to like music that is instrumental, like synthwave and chiptunes, as well as some light on vocals trip hop and industrial. I can listen to rock and metal too, but it tends to grab my attention more than I like when I am trying to get in the zone.

[bijectivehomomorphism@programming.dev]

Clicked when you were listening to pink pony club, awesome song

[bijectivehomomorphism@programming.dev]

Good Kid, Phoneboy, Chappell Roan, Charlie XCX, Andrew Garden, Landon Conrath, Mickey Darling, Kevin Walkman, Troye Sivan, Boygenius

I think those are the main ones. Also "Halloween" by Novo Amor is a banger

[mrkite@programming.dev]

Stuff like Tycho - Dive for when I really need to focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXOYfZMR0w

[greensofabed@lemmy.zip]

Drum and bass and electronic music. Techno if I want to finish something really fast. Lot of stuff without lyrics.

[alnitak@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Techno, dubstep, various game OST's, some metal, orchestral, and various pop songs my partner turned me on to. Quite a few touhou remixes too.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Anything without lyrics. Same as others have said: synthwave and similar are great. Game soundtracks. Orchestra albums. Some metal.

Movie soundtracks are a another great resource for lyric-free music that haven't been mentioned much yet.

[seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Trance/sextrance, scenecore and weird underground soundcloud rap

[qaz@lemmy.world]

That looks really interesting, thanks for sharing

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hah that was in my listenbrainz recommendations

[mrkite@programming.dev]

I'm a fan of japanese indie like Gesu No Kiwami Otome.

[kissaki@programming.dev]

I feel like it's very varied, but I'm not one to listen to metal or much rock. What I listen to changes from time to time.

I know the meme/prejudice of programmers listening to metal, and having long hair. I can't say I've ever felt like it was confirmed or justified. But it's not like I have that much exposure or insight to many either.

I'm not even sure I can list genres; I feel like it'd be too many and unspecific anyway. Chillhop, chillsynth, hip-hop, deep house, some pop, some german and japanese music, some chiptune, some classics of the last century; some are shared on https://soundcloud.com/kissaki

[mrwafflesnbacon@lemmy.world]

The Rippingtons, various mod trackers and some other things.

[vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Pretty much anything EDM and a lot of hip-hop/rap. Some 90-2000s rock tossed in too

[lambda@programming.dev]

Rap mostly.

When programming however, Chill Lofi HipHop beats to study/relax to. Words distract.

[ephera@lemmy.ml]

I need something without understandable lyrics (unless I've listened to that song many times before) and something that pumps me up, but doesn't cause headaches. So, 8-bit music and cheesy / 'epic' cinematic scores work well.

Well, unless it's 4 o'clock in the morning. Then nothing beats classical music. I'm never as productive as I am at 4 AM, listening to Beethoven and friends.

[helixdab2@lemm.ee]

Progressive metal & related genres (currently listening to the newest Eidola album on repeat, and some Dance Gavin Dance), and bebop jazz.

But I don't program; I'm mostly cleaning up artwork for commercial printing.

[exu@feditown.com]

I mostly listen to powermetal, symphonic metal and some rock. But I'm no programmer, I'm a sysadmin.

[rwdf@lemmy.world]

Either https://musicforprogramming.net/ , some vaporwave, some really extreme/cavernous death metal or noise rock. Free jazz. Possibly some instrumental kraut rock if I feel like it, the motorik beat is great for focus.