Try “The Innovators” album.
I have a public playlist on YouTube: The adventures of Bango Skank. It’s really eclectic with something for everyone. Just hit shuffle and enjoy!
Vaporwave
Stuff like Tycho, edamame, emancipator.
The first broken social scene album
SomaFM’s left Coast 70s works also
can’t listen to music when working makes me focus on the music and not the work and i get nothing done silence please
I play metal covers of classical music, and orchestral covers of Rock songs.
Essentially, songs I recognize, but no lyrics to tie up my language processor.
Abusing ones language processor is how they suck you in!
Risk of Rain 2 OST
Enya can be helpful for me. Otherwise soothing classical music, the fast and loud works can be a little too distracting. It also helps me to listen to the same thing when doing a task to train my brain to focus when listening to it.
Anything with a fast beat and no lyrics.
I have a Spotify playlist I found called “drum’n’bass no lyrics” that fits the bill.
Also use any of the bonkers releases (favourite is bonkers 14) but they have lyrics… I’ve found that once I’ve listened to them a few times though I don’t notice the lyrics anymore…
Would you be willing to share your playlist link?
Sure thing… It’s not my playlist, I just found it on Spotify.
I like instrumental electronic songs, stuff with soft emphasis on melody, but a definite beat to rely on and some good atmosphere and mood. Found a good few songs like that out of the demoscene, actually!
Halo soundtracks
Danheim got me through homework for most of college, got me in focus mode
What can really work well is an ambient background noise, such as the TNG engine ambient noise or whatever you are into (SWTOR station ambient, …), wind, ocean.
The trick then is to put it on exactly when the focussed studying starts, and to turn it off abruptly when you (have to) interrupt, e. g. for phone, door, water.
That prevents you from the half-assed “I’m technically working right now” when you are really not.
Baroque classical
This right here. I don’t know why, but Telemann got me through university… well, Telemann and Dexedrine.
It’s been a few years I’ve only listened to music without any vocals in it. My favorite is tuning to SomaFM’s ambient-music stations like Synphaera, Deep Space One, Space Station and, if you are really into the slowest kind of ambient music, Drone Zone. Soma has many instrumental stations with specific genres like Fluid for instrumental trap.
Strong recommend for soma.fm. ONE of their stations will have what you’re looking for.
Boards of Canada
Love ‘em