"Music to hack to" by triley

Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:20:00 PST

Matt Palmer asks what music people like to listen to when coding. My preference is to listen so a good seamless mix of electronic music, usually driving and upbeat.

The Cloud Factory Collective’s web site is a great place to get music to hack by. Some choice mixes:

Mylai vs Li: breaks/house/2step
Beeker: Funky drum n bass
Ryan Lee: Old Skool
Paul Sly: Morose 70’s
Dan Craig & Shawn Kahl: Assmovin’ house
Mark Brennan: Morning hump tunes
Miss Meliss: Ambient/Downtempo

My friend Adam Bellinson has recently started DJing drum & bass mixes on Linux using the open source tool Mixxx. I have been enjoying his work a lot too. The mixes can be downloaded from his torrents page.

One track I acquired recently with an iTMS voucher I got for Christmas is the Back to the Future overture from the soundtrack of the first film. Although it is only 8 minutes in length, I have found this to be very enjoyable to have playing especially when overcoming big bugs or problems in code, because the emotion that is conveyed in the piece makes me feel like I am a hero like Marty McFly saving the fabric of space and time :-)

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"Music to hack to" by triley