What are you listen to while programming?

[SilverWarior]

I worked on my map editor this time. The coding went much easily like that, dunno why.

Nice music (uncomplcated with steady rithms) that we like usually calms us down and help us to focus on the task.

Getting older and older will make you need more silence. Dunno, maybe its just me. After 1,5 years i will be 30.

I'm also nearing 30 but I still perfer listening to music over silence. But it is true that my taste for music has changed a bit. Instead of "wild" music that I listened in my youth I now prefer more calm music. I do still listen to some more "energetic" music from time to time but rarely so "wild" as in my youth.

[phibermon]

Drum and Bass (classic stuff RAM Trilogy, ShyFX, Dillinja, Aphrodite etc) IDM (Square Pusher, Aphex Twin) or Glitch (Dntel). Don't do Dubstep, although I'll refrain from bashing it

Sometimes classical, more often modern piano compositions, pianists such as Yiruma or Marika Takeuchi are my favorites atm.

But specifically whilst coding, more than anything else; I'm listening to my archive of classic game tunes! High voltage sid collection, module music from the Amiga and the occasional game tune cover done by a band.

But nothing with lyrics, I'm a life long musician so I'm picking out chords, structure etc in a piece of music and hearing words as well is too much to process whilst concentrating on coding. At least I think that's the reason as I don't have an issue coding whilst listening to people speaking on the Radio etc