My picks:
BassDrive, (downtempo drum-n-bass) monkeyradio, (some
downtempo/triphop), and SecretAgent (the soundtrack for your stylish,
mysterious, dagnerous life ;) (all shoutcast stations, so I can listen
at home or work)

Any classic or classic-sounding Jazz (not a free-jazz person)

I like intelligent every now and again (aphex twin-ish stuff) but
depending on what I'm doing, it's too complex to have on in the
background. Either way, I prefer minimal vocals and low to medium tempo.
Too low and I start getting tired, though.


-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bargabus
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:28 PM
To: TCLUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Hacker-style music


A little music history lesson...

Some of the first "music" in history was chanting.  We're talking 
predating melody here.  That music and quite a bit of early molodic 
music as well was around 60-70 beats per minute.  It's believed that it 
was done that way to match the rythm of the heart.

Flash forward...

The reason that up-tempo music seems to give you energy is that 
correspondence between music rythm and heart rate.  A lot of trance 
music is done at 130 bpm because they want a high energy reaction from 
the audience.

Anyway, that said I'd be looking for music in the 130+ bpm range.  You 
don't necessarily need to limit yourself to techno (or even worse one 
sub-genre of the techno world) to do that.  There are plenty of rock, 
disco, dance etc... songs that are in that range.  Check out...

http://www.djrhythms.com/db/dbsearch.asp

It's a searchable database (mostly dance/electronic though) of songs 
with bpm rates.

If you really like the electronic sound and want to avoid more 
traditional music remember that there are lots of camps in the techno 
world, most people who responded have focused on trance and hard-core 
but you might like some house and big-beat stuff too.

One more thing, a couple people mentioned compilations but most of those

are mixed (usually by a DJ big on the rave scene), you may be hearing 
more of what the DJ has done to the track than the original artist when 
you take that approach.  I've never liked compilations because of that.

Have fun,
Ben.


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