What music?

I listen to music the same way Philippe Starck does (I tried it out and I love it). I just create a huge playlist with only my favorite songs, and that’s all I listen to all day every day, like one big ritual. Sometimes I’ll discover something new and I’ll add a few songs, but I’m very very selective. It cuts down the time I spend searching for new music. At the moment it’s an enormously eclectic mix, a lot of uptempo a la Daft Punk/Faithless/Jamiroquai/Fatboy Slim/Zuco103, some jazz, and a lot of calm, meditative music from india, deva premal, Air, Scandinavian music.

… that’s all I listen to all day every day, like one big ritual. Sometimes I’ll discover something new and I’ll add a few songs, but I’m very very selective.

Which begs the question, "How do you discover something new, if you’re listening to the same thing all day?

Something I’ve started doing a lot lately is listening to the original scores to films and video games. Video game soundtracks especially seem to be designed to give you something interesting to listen to without being distracting.

Here are some examples:

Steven Price

Andrew Hale

Bill Elm

Jesper Kyd

I also have to pitch my favorite productivity-increasing album of all time, Massive Attack’s Mezzanine

I listen to funk / electronic / indie, whether on the radio (Fm4 in Austria) or through websites like:

Le Tournedisque // http://www.letournedisque.com/home

RedBull Music Academy // http://www.rbmaradio.com/

Boiler Room // http://boilerroom.tv/

The artist usually are Daft Punk (Discover, Homework and Human after all), French Kiwi Juice, Nicolas Jaar, Darkside, Kartell, Cezaire, Flume and Digitalism. I also like to dig into 50s and 60s jazz or soul. Usually something that puts you in a good mood and proactive.

This was last week going on and on while skething

Darkside at Pitchfork // Darkside FULL SET - Pitchfork Music Festival Paris - YouTube

I am with you with the one playlist technique. I don’t think I am all the way into that approach (I mainly organize playlists by a few artists but end up listening to the same few playlists exclusively).

Mentioning Scandinavian music, do you know A-ha? They are one of my favorites, but I have found that not many people here in the States know of them outside of their one hit here, but they have some amazing other stuff.

One of the nice things about talking with designers who have more experience than me is that they sometimes actually know what I am listening to:

Alphaville (known for Forever Young, Big in Japan, who have an awesome mix of catchy dance tunes, deep ballades, etc.)

A-ha

Depeche Mode – has seemed to survive very well, good amount of people here know them or grew up with them. Even searching the Core, they have been mentioned a few times.

Duran Duran – some of their stuff is amazing, others is pure garbage.

The Human League

Talk Talk

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)

Pet Shop Boys

I always listen classic music, there are so many my favorite singers like Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Etc

At the moment Modern Man is sketching to Melbourne, Florida by Dick Diver from Melbourne Australia.

Equal parts Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Television, Big Star/Alex Chilton, Yo La Tengo and The Go-Betweens



P.S. What’s the key to making the YouTube embed code work here?

nice, I’ll have to check him out.

To make the youtube imbed thing work, click the youtube button in your post and then past the ID number of the video in there. The ID number is basically the very end of the share link.

Thank you.

Tearing the Posters Down is the single.

They are four, including one female.

Dick and Nicole Diver are the central characters in Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel.

This is good sample of their live handiwork, the true test of a good band.

Perhaps NSFW.

Olivia Neutron-John - (death/tango)

I was a hard rock fan but now i just like to chill to the jazz-influenced beats like Exmag or Russ Liquid.
Idk, maybe just gettin old :stuck_out_tongue:

Personally I like listening to pop music, light songs and melodies, sometimes I can listen to nature’s sounds

I like many things: from house music to classical. Appreciate Pink Floyd, 30 seconds to Mars and many others.

Stepping from iTunes to Spotify, we play a lot of new music, indie, pop, an occassional podcast and Studio Brussels or BNR for the news.

todays get it done song, The Bad Plus, “Seven Minute Mind” The Bad Plus - Seven Minute Mind - YouTube

nough said.
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Iron Maiden! They were one of the first bands that I really loved enough to listen to a full album. Then I got really into super heavy metal and metal core for a while (Parkway Drive, As I Lay Dying, Affiance, Amity Affliction, Bring me the Horizon). Most of the time now I just hit discover on Spotify or choose a random genre under recently added.

Listening to Helmet while designing a line of helmets :slight_smile: