I have fairly specific auditory requirements to accompany my design time. I’ve never been able to work with lyrical music, so I constrain myself to acoustic music. To further narrow it down I swing between the alt-instrumental post-rock noodlings of artists such as Tristeza, Tortoise, Japancakes, The Letter E, Saxon Shore and Lanterna, and the more ambient end of the spectrum offered by Labradford, Pan*American, Aix Em Klemm, Hammock, Harold Budd, and Robin Guthrie.
I’m just discovering a new sub-genre of both these which I can only describe as post-dance folk-electro, represented by the likes of the excellent Lymbyc Systym.
Click here to check out my extensive library on Last.fm, or here for my Pandora profile.
Do you design? What do you listen to?
Toby, you have some good music suggestions up here. I notice a couple of common denominators in my library to yours. I hope that you have heard of Helios – you’ll love him if not.
Dan
Dan
July 14th, 2009