some personal favourites:

- https://musicforprogramming.net/seventyone

- https://musicforprogramming.net/fiftyseven

- https://musicforprogramming.net/fortysix

(Yes, I'm an only child.)

Most other elements don’t seem to matter too much. Baroque, industrial, ambient, etc are all effectively equivalent in most regards.

That said, I tend to lean toward 1990s atmospheric drum-and-bass (pretty much anything released by Good Looking Records) as a good default. That genre maximizes things that seem to help while minimizing things that seem to detract.

The first one is a 1-hour mix of "In Motion" from the soundtrack to The Social Network: https://youtu.be/bCxPmMbZjuk

The second is a 1-hour mix of "It Has to be This Way" from the soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising Revengance: https://youtu.be/jKGDib6qZBo

The third is a 1-hour mix of "Clock Tower" from the soundtrack to Dead Cells: https://youtu.be/plwhysPCxXI

OPs playlist requires too many faculties used in coding.

Boards of Canada

Mr. Robot Original Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafSm6N5bkc

There are usually no lyrics, there's an absolute ton out there, and something about the music gets my brain flowing better than other instrumental music.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfwdJx0NDE

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLscdEjM7jiUsxRPIt7BUjzxpA...

1. https://marco.org/2011/05/26/geek-intro-to-phish

Later in the day I listen to more energetic electronic music (a lot of which is from the Hotline Miami soundtrack): M|O|O|N, Dan Terminus, Carpenter Brut, Daniel Deluxe, 1788-L, Pendulum

https://m.youtube.com/@aimtoheadmix1915/videos

Lately it’s been a mix of ambient electronic and lo-fi, especially for longer deep work sessions.

Johann Johannsson and Max Richter are my go-tos.

https://archive.org/details/IlluminationRadio

Pick an episode with your rng of choice.

Very rarely I use custom-filtered (brownish) noise to help with isolation. Perhaps some kind of Ambient or New Age would work too in such situations, but things I like in those genres require attention and not paying it would be absolutely disrespectful.

I listen to all kinds of music at my dayjob but only during specific activities that do not require much contemplation and I can mostly flow with the music and do the work in the background.

Though, I'm a musician and sound engineer, so my relationships with music in general might be a bit special.

ETA: I forgot to mention gorillaz. Great programming music, and seems to give me good ideas.

Heavy Metal for actual development

Bossa Nova for deploying at 1 am

https://poolsuite.net/

Haven't added anything to it in a while, but over the years I built a youtube playlist of songs that help me focus while working. Generally rules are: predominantly electronic, has some kind of beat, zero vocals. I'm up to over 500 songs at this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTpQwBMaBI&list=PL2A7B99AB9...

[1] https://somafm.com/

But when I need to mix it up, I switch to FIP (Paris). They manage several different stations, but start with the main one first. It's excellently curated with more of a global palette than your typical station.

My personal favorites are pretty much anything by Nujabes (including the soundtracks for Samurai Champloo), Fat Jon, and DJ Okawari.

I also like some classic albums in the genre like Donuts by J Dilla, Dr. No's Oxperiment by Oh No, and Endtroducing by DJ Shadow.

I will sometimes go through essential charts I find to dive into new genres, and other times I'll pick a random artist and go through their entire discography start to finish.

I highly recommend doing that with Talk Talk, their transition from 80s pop to experimental is phenomenal.

- Pure Shakuhachi music (ignore the ones with 'relaxing' background music)

- Brian Eno

- Vangelis

- Hiroshi Yoshimura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnk_b_7trII

This is an extended edition of "it might just be a one shot deal" from the waka/jawaka album by Frank Zappa. The extended part is the pedal steel played by Sneaky Pete Kleinow.

If you have never heard any Zappa stuff and this is interesting to you, listen to waka jawaka itself if you like instrumentals. If you want something more commercial, listen to the Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation album. If you want more odd, listen to the Bongo Fury album, featuring Captain Beefheart. Happy exploring.

https://www.nts.live/

And they have mobile apps :)

It is pretty much ideal for, as Larry Wall once said, letting music "wash over you" while coding https://youtu.be/SKqBmAHwSkg?si=_vHvP8Ij9lacwhFk

French hip-hop/rap to clean head while walking under rain.

Speed metal for for LLMing.

After that, one can build up a list of hundreds of net radio stations in VLC and find one that works for you -today-.

(but usually progressive trance with no lyrics is my preference)