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What is your engineering soundtrack?

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Catwell over 14 years ago
Many of us listen to music or audio books while we plug away on our various projects. I'm curious to know, what is your personal soundtrack for your day job?

I used play a lot of classical music, followed by a period of instrumental club music, and lately I've been listening to audio books.
 
In my MP3 player as of 12/1/2010:
1. I have no mouth and I must scream - Harlen Ellison (Audio Book)
2. Joe Frank (Radio Stories)
3. Bach
4. DJ Shadow
5. Pendulum
6. Aphex Twin
7. Various DJ collections
My list, subject to frequent changes.

 
To be fair, I'm not sure how closely I listen to the stories as I concentrate at work, but it fun to listen.

 
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    0 cookieglitch over 14 years ago

    Not sure I could pin down an exact playlist, I'll listen to anything (One or two excepts with genres like rap). My playlists have been ranging from Yo-Yo Ma to GSY!BE and British Sea Power to Mindless Self Indulgence. I must admit a guilty pleasure recently has been a touch of Lady Gaga for some reason.

     

    Vast majority of the time I cannot work properly without music. I can cope without it, but I lose that natural rhythm of getting things working and lose concentration more. Last 10 artists that stick out that have been on my playlists this week are:

    1. White Stripes
    2. Mindless Self Indulgence
    3. British Sea Power
    4. Clinic
    5. At The Drive-In
    6. Young Legionnaire
    7. Broken Social Scene
    8. Clint Mansell
    9. The Polyphonic Spree
    10. Mclusky

     

    May be that one morning and completely different in the afternoon. Makes for some interesting looks when people ask what the music is thats for sure. Depending on how I'm listening to music (MP3 player, CD, stream etc), I do keep track of it on Last.fm, anyone else use it?

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    0 awinning over 14 years ago in reply to cookieglitch

    I used to use a music streaming site..can't even remember what it is called now. You typed in a couple of bands you liked and it picked music based on your preferences. Then it stopped working out side the US and I never went back.

     

    I don't listen to much now, bit of music here or there if a mate sends a tack to listen to, or a playlist on youtube if I feel like it

     

    Good call on British Sea Power, John. I used to listen to their first CD quite a lot when I lived in London. They were playing in leeds a few weeks back, and I meant to go, but had other stuff on....

     

    edited due to getting bands mixed up image

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    0 cookieglitch over 14 years ago in reply to awinning

    Thinking of Pandora?

     

    They are a great band, worth checking out their other albums, and indeed the recently announced tour dates for next year. http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/ for anyone not aware of them.

     

    I was wondering why the email said his and this says their image

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    0 cookieglitch over 14 years ago in reply to awinning

    Thinking of Pandora?

     

    They are a great band, worth checking out their other albums, and indeed the recently announced tour dates for next year. http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/ for anyone not aware of them.

     

    I was wondering why the email said his and this says their image

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  • awinning
    0 awinning over 14 years ago in reply to cookieglitch

    To be honest I was thinking of a guy who came from the western Isles and played all the music himself.. I saw BSP were an actual band and edited.

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  • cookieglitch
    0 cookieglitch over 14 years ago in reply to awinning

    If you remember who it was, post it, you've got me intrigued now!

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  • awinning
    0 awinning over 14 years ago in reply to cookieglitch

    British Sea Power...Mull Historical society..Easy mistake to make http://www.myspace.com/colinmacintyre image

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