<story><title>Notch live coding 0x10c</title><url>http://www.twitch.tv/notch?0x10c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>If you want non-stop energetic, yet &quot;smooth&quot; techno with some soothing vocals, I recommend you check into trance. Specifically, &quot;A State of Trance&quot;. There was a 6-city, 6 week tour that just ended last weekend. All of the music is playable here:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv&lt;/a&gt;
And downloadable here:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316887&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(I code to this music EVERY day)</text></item><item><author>MiguelHudnandez</author><text>The music reminds me of a small group of coders I was inspired by at my first startup. Back then I was only doing tech support and light front-end work, but every day it was three programmers and I getting stuff done to music like this.  Ever since then, this kind of music is a great booster for me, even though I get embarrassed if someone comes into my office while it&apos;s playing...&lt;p&gt;The only thing I try for nowadays is to find an energetic, repetitive mix with no vocals.</text></item><item><author>rauljara</author><text>I&apos;m actually being really productive having the stream on in the background.  I&apos;m not looking at him code, but hearing his techno going is reminding me that someone somewhere is getting a ton of shit done, and it&apos;s shaming me into working hard.&lt;p&gt;And I don&apos;t even like techno.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bprater</author><text>I also recommend the podcast, &quot;Trance Around the World&quot; -- two hours of awesome trance. I program with it on, I go to sleep with it playing, we just had a party with it playing in the background.&lt;p&gt;(Also, if you are a Spotify user, try the Radio/Trance mix.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Notch live coding 0x10c</title><url>http://www.twitch.tv/notch?0x10c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>If you want non-stop energetic, yet &quot;smooth&quot; techno with some soothing vocals, I recommend you check into trance. Specifically, &quot;A State of Trance&quot;. There was a 6-city, 6 week tour that just ended last weekend. All of the music is playable here:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv&lt;/a&gt;
And downloadable here:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316887&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(I code to this music EVERY day)</text></item><item><author>MiguelHudnandez</author><text>The music reminds me of a small group of coders I was inspired by at my first startup. Back then I was only doing tech support and light front-end work, but every day it was three programmers and I getting stuff done to music like this.  Ever since then, this kind of music is a great booster for me, even though I get embarrassed if someone comes into my office while it&apos;s playing...&lt;p&gt;The only thing I try for nowadays is to find an energetic, repetitive mix with no vocals.</text></item><item><author>rauljara</author><text>I&apos;m actually being really productive having the stream on in the background.  I&apos;m not looking at him code, but hearing his techno going is reminding me that someone somewhere is getting a ton of shit done, and it&apos;s shaming me into working hard.&lt;p&gt;And I don&apos;t even like techno.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danneu</author><text>Another smooth genre is &quot;deep house&quot;, also found in genres like slowmo, nu disco. An example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD74t6K7mI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD74t6K7mI&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>