Best music to just "zone out to" while you work.

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#1  Edited By rottendevice

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#2  Edited By Doctorchimp

Depends solely and completely on you and what you like. How about a list?

Music is incredibly subjective. One man's migraine is another man's theme song.

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#3  Edited By BraveToaster
@Doctorchimp said:
" Depends solely and completely on you and what you like. How about a list?Music is incredibly subjective. One man's migraine is another man's theme song. "
Indeed.
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#4  Edited By getonBJslevel

Id say something like Explosions In The Sky, Do Make Say Think, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert, and  From Monument To Masses might do the trick. Maybe even some of the early M83 or American Football.

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#5  Edited By monstersnsoup

Beethoven.

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#6  Edited By BeachThunder

Burzum would usually seem like a strange suggestion, but Illa Tiðandi is a great relaxing piece of music and it's repetitive and long, but most importantly, no lyrics. The rest of Dauði Baldrs is pretty good too.

 
Anyway, whatever you choose to listen to, you should really make sure it doesn't have (m)any lyrics, as it's very easy to have your thoughts sidetracked by vocals.
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#7  Edited By W0lfbl1tzers

I find both Sigur Ros and Wye Oak both suitable.

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#8  Edited By Ben_H

Dubstep or trance.  I listen to stuff without vocals when I need to do marathon study sessions because the music starts to blend together, where if it had vocals then I could tell individual songs apart.  It works quite well, especially if the album has good transitions between songs so you don't notice the song change as much.

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#9  Edited By Vodun
@rottendevice: Rain + some funky jazz = calm for me. The music, as has been said, is of course depending on taste. But I kinda like the rain sound, like the site says: "Rain makes everything better."
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#10  Edited By Lemmycaution217
@getonBJslevel said:
" Id say something like Explosions In The Sky, Do Make Say Think, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert, and  From Monument To Masses might do the trick. Maybe even some of the early M83 or American Football. "
Fuck yeah, American Football.
  
  
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#11  Edited By DrPockets000

Sigur Ros

The Killer and the Star
The Animal Collective
Dust Brothers

That's all I could think of in 5 seconds.
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#12  Edited By Red12b

Look up a Kiwi artist called ‘Bic Runga’, then look up a song called ‘Drive’ it’s what I listen to when I have a Migraine    

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#13  Edited By fwylo

For some reason whenever I need to zone out while I'm working I can just put on some really upbeat and intense music (house/electro/dubstep). It gets me going and I don't actually have to listen to it.

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#14  Edited By EVO

Can't beat Air when it comes to zoning out.
  

      
  
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#15  Edited By Metric_Outlaw

Charlie Parker is pretty good zoning out music. 

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#16  Edited By predator

Biosphere - Substrata
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#17  Edited By MEATBALL

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, great background music.

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As a couple of people already said, Sigur Ros.
I'd also recommend Radiohead's last couple of albums (king of limbs and in rainbows) as they are pretty relaxing and easy to zone out to.

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#19  Edited By recroulette

The classical radio station is what I use.

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#20  Edited By Example1013

"Higher" education? Oh, I get it. You're doing the "joint ops".


Anyways, if you can find the instrumental track for Enta Da Stage, that CD has such chill beats. Actually, just look for any instrumental tracks done by Da Beatminerz and you'll find some really good music. Their 90s sutff is probably more chill than some of the modern stuff, but regardless, just go with what you can find. Those guys are probably my favorite producers so far.

A sample:

  
  
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#21  Edited By jasta
@Doctorchimp said:
" Depends solely and completely on you and what you like. How about a list?Music is incredibly subjective. One man's migraine is another man's theme song. "
The Internet has been cured, rejoice!
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#23  Edited By StaticFalconar

  

  start zoning