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BatVink
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I'm in need of some new inspirational music. What do I mean by that?

In the '70s it was Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells
In the '80s it was Jean Michel Jarre and Oxygene
In the '90s it was Enigma

In the Noughties, I'm lost for something new and motivating, that you can work to. Please advise!!!



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Posted: 30th May 2006 19:18
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Rob Dougan - his instrumental stuff.
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Posted: 30th May 2006 19:20
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Rob Dougan, Craig Armstrong.

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You may not like to hear this, but I would suggest picking up one of those Classical music compilation CD packs. You get 4 CDs or so for a tenner. It's very good background music. Very motivaitional, yet not intrusive, except the odd tune that saps up all your attention. I've listened to all styles of tunage during my degree work, and classical is by far the best to get things done too.

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Yeah - I normally listen to classical music when revising. Enya is good too.


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I've no idea how broad your musical tastes are, but I work to Nobuo Uematsu alot. He's the guy who wrote the music for FF games. I listen to the OSTs and Piano Collections. I'm actually listening to Tifas theme now. A friend said the orchestral albums are good too, but I haven't heard them.


I also listen to alot of melodic death/black metal. Whether Opeth are inpirational or not though is debatable. Works for me though. Judging by your examples, I'm guessing it won't really be your style.

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Quote: "In the '70s it was Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells
In the '80s it was Jean Michel Jarre and Oxygene
In the '90s it was Enigma"
All good. Personally I would add Pink Floyd to that (Echoes type stuff), Ozric Tentacles, some of the chillout moods albums (mix of stuff really), and the song Chi Mai (best song *ever* almost).

Oh, and of course Vangelis (personal fave is Blade runner soundtrack, but Antartica is awesome too).

Sure I'm missing loads there...

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Oh yeah, and don't forget http://www.pandora.com/ to find similar music. Good site that.

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I love this guy's music. John Schmidt. I've been to a couple of his concerts and it's really fun. Here's his site http://johnschmidt.com/index2.shtml. And you can listen to most of his music here =>http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=273657.
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(Waterfall, All of Me, and To the Summit are some of my favorites.)
I think he offers most for free, I think, because most of his money comes from selling the piano music to his stuff

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I would check out Air (not to be confused with Air Supply )--- their inspirational album for me was Moon Safari. So relaxing!

Enya is another great one.

Loreena McKennitt and Moby are also pretty good for inspirational.


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Quote: "Oh yeah, and don't forget http://www.pandora.com/ to find similar music. Good site that."

Great suggestion. I never knew such a site existed. It´s briliant. Thanks.

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Its my home page, along with google (gotta love firefox and tabbed home pages!)

I would suggest the album "Skylarking" by XTC. Very layered music, I find it great for coding to.

Why make sense when you could make brownies?
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Quote: "Its my home page, along with google (gotta love firefox and tabbed home pages!)
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How you do that?

Stunt man 2 http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=79827&b=8&p=0
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Have the two tabs pages in open in tabs, then set that as your home page.

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Downloading Rob Dougan whilst listening to Pandora - thanks for all the recommendations guys.



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Going by your previous choices it would be Orbital.

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Posted: 31st May 2006 14:54 Edited at: 31st May 2006 14:55
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My all time favourite coding album has to be Ennio Morricone's double CD, music from Clint's best westerns.

Mock me if you will but it's subtle and haunting, like really slow jazz that is actually listenworthy.

I always listen to music while working, but when I really need to concentrate, I find my usual collection a bit heavy, it gets so instead of the music inspiring you, it just occupies your brain and slows you down.

But, they are not new, you asked for a new thing:

The Prodigy's latest album is quite relaxed - there's simply no other techno outfit that inspires like them, the new album is quite relaxed in comparison, since I think the 'baggage' is away from Liam. I've notices half the album is used in adverts, but don't let that put you off. The Prodigy is our best bet I think for Jarre's crown.

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listen to these songs

Artist / song

the flaming lips : the golden path (OMG these guys live are amazing)

the shins : know your onion & when you notice the stripes & turn a square

the faint : hospital & agenda suicide

the ratpure : house of jeolous lovers & out of the races and onto the tracks

gerling : blood on the microphone ( good aussie band )

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Rob Dougan - give it a search on RadioBlogClub.com

Clubbed to Death 1 & 2, Not Driving Anymore (instrumental), Chateu, Furious Angels.

I work absolutely best to Leftfield or Spyro The Dragon music.

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Yoshmi Battles The Pink Robots overall is a nice, relaxing album, besides for Yoshmi No. 2 (that song is far out sh*t).

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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda is a great track from Kill Bill.

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My favourite coding album at the moment is the Garden State soundtrack! Amazing songs on there, there's Colplay, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, all feel good music plus some woman from The OC singing about a winding road.

If you want relaxing but incredibly focusing music get Joshua Radin. His songs are all acoustic, but have a wonderful unique sound. Check him out on iTunes. http://www.joshuaradin.com/ "Closer" "Don't Look Away" and "Winter" are all great.

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Thanks for the Rob Dougan tip, awsome stuff!


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Quote: "Ennio Morricone's "
Isn't he the bloke who did Chi Mai? Another chance to name drop my favourite ever instrumental....

Favourite coding album at the minute? Hmmm... ok, I'll admit it is the Motley Crue greatest hits album. I'm sorry. Still the lyrics to Don't go away mad (just go away) are tops I'm an eighties-glam/hair rock/metal-whore basically.

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I suggested Rob Dougan based on Batvinks previous favourites, but here is some of the music I have lined-up in iTunes to code to, all of them very instrumental with few lyrics, to aid in not distracting me

The Crystal Method (any album, but especially Legion of boom)

The Future Sound of London (anything, especially The Isness and ISDN)

EGG - Albumen (amazing live!)

Northern Exposure 1 (John Digweed and Sasha.. haunting, brilliant)

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Plus a mention for Chicane, Banco De Gaia and 808 State. I'd use all of them for coding My musical tastes go much wider, but those are real coder albums.

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Quote: "The Future Sound of London "
Someone else has heard of them. Have a cassette somewhere....

For a total change of direction my iPod just shuffled up the Last Action Hero (is actually pretty good). Oh yes, program to this for a while on high volume. Heh, I remember doing some of my university assignments with this on my Sony Walkman cassette effort Ah, Alice in Chains just came on. Classic. Stuff this ambient lark.

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Quote: "Massive Attack - Mezzanine"


An amazing album.

I like 100th Window Advance too, I can't believe it's the same band (kind of) who did Blue Lines :S

Dissolved Girl is my #2 favourite song ever. Idioteque by Radiohead grabs #1 by a million miles though.

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Another great Aussie Band, if you like rock: The Living End!

Also, indi... Gerling? No way... We had them at the music vestival at our Uni last year, and I have to say, them and Magic Dirt were our 'head-liners', but both were really lacking anything in the way of showmanship/quality music, and both were so very easily blown out of the water by the likes of Blue Juice, Two Up, and of course, After The Fall!

If you want something that will REALLY help you concentrate...
GrassHopper's Digital Expresso
It's one of those Hypnosis tracks - 10 minutes long... But, DAMN! It really kick starts your thinking...
I got an assignment done that I was fearing would take a couple of days, in just 5hours

Great stuff.

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i only like a few songs from gerling, but there alright I guess. I was struggling for content when i wrote it.

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Quote: "If you want something that will REALLY help you concentrate...GrassHopper's Digital Expresso"


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That's it, sir. Soundwaves and soundpatterns have been proven (from what I hear) to stimulate various moods. I think OddMind posted a program that had multiples of these kinds of soundwaves and patterns to help you get into different moods, like alertness, creativity, sleepiness, etc.

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