My two most frequent listens are a combined playlist of the SimCity 3 and SimCity 4 soundtracks, and The Yes Album. If it's not those, it's almost certainly progressive rock of some kind. Nothing else comes close for productivity music for me.
Though really, these days I find myself working with a twitch stream in the background more often than with a playlist on.
I don't have any particular coding music, but my music consumption is more on a yearly cycle so depends where we are within that cycle.
For example in Feb-May I'm basically listening to the current year's Eurovision playlist on repeat. Then from May-Jun I'll move to my general Eurovision Bangers playlist as a way to cope and slowly come down from the high of the contest.
But if I'm feeling particularly aggro or in need of extra motivation I'll just tell Spotify to play me a metal mix and go from there 😅
Really depends on the urgency of the task I'm working on.
Crunch time: hardstyle/hardcore for the mindnumbing tasks (early 2000s compilations), folk (like Heilung - to get in figh-or-flight mode), or percussion (Slagerij van Kampen is awesome!)
Chill dev-days: Piano guys, jazzy/country/classical playlists, trippy stuff like Shpongle or dead can dance
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