[dviswa]

Hi Guys,

I work in a typical cube farm. At times it gets noisy. I have a Beyer Dynamic 250-80 at work, good music can sometimes be distracting, specially when I need to focus. I am sure many of you face similar situations. What do you do?

Listen to some CDs with those non-distracting, soothing, relaxing sounds maybe? There are a lot of them to choose from, not all of which are good. Which ones are?

Thanks,
Dinesh

 

[manaox2]

I like ambient or trance. Like mew.

 

[Rlynn]

Lute, guitar and instrumental folk work for me. Magnatune.com has some nice Renaissance and lute podcasts. Ambient music by Steve Roach works sometimes, but sometimes I just drift off with the music. Music with a simple, familiar, but not overly complex structure seems to work best. A few Bach keyboard selections can usually get me focused and able to "lose" the background noise. A co-worker swears by Flatt and Scruggs to block intrusive conversations! Another co-worker enjoyed the Gregorian chant selections I sent her.

 

[milkweg]

Brian Eno - Music for Airprorts

 

[Know Talent]

call me crazy....but I really get into early Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.

Pat Metheny's "Off Ramp" is another ambient classic.

Marsh/Tristano's "Intuition" is also good

 

[dviswa]

Thanks a lot guys. I have a quite bit of music to check out. I am checking out the renaissance music on magnatune.

Next up, I will check out Brian Eno. Seems to have some good feedback on amazon.

Does anybody have any recommendations on CDs that are specifically for relaxing - you know, the sound of water, birds, etc.

 

[dviswa]

manaox2,

I am not yet into trance, any suggestions of where to start?

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by manaox2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I like ambient or trance.

So do I.
Great background music for work.

 

[manaox2]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dviswa /img/forum/go_quote.gif manaox2, I am not yet into trance, any suggestions of where to start?

For ambient, you can try mew. Google Music: Mew

DJ Tiesto and Paul Van Dyke are more widely known for their quality trance. I love Tiesto's Elements of Life (especially "in the dark"). I also like Gabriel and Dresden Present Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes and Andian - Beautiful Things, these have female vocals in them.

Maybe you should see if you can try out Ingo Kunzi's Nirwana album. Its becoming well known as being a trance masterpiece.

 

[dviswa]

Searched for Ayla Nirwana.
Geez, $70 for a CD on Amazon? Similar results on ebay as well. What's going on? CD is "out-of-print" so to say, I guess and people are quoting whatever they feel like?

 

[manaox2]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dviswa /img/forum/go_quote.gif Searched for Ayla Nirwana. Geez, $70 for a CD on Amazon? Similar results on ebay as well. What's going on? CD is "out-of-print" so to say, I guess and people are quoting whatever they feel like?

ah... sorry, I don't own that one, I cited it from last.fm and others. I own Tiesto and a lot of my trance type stuff comes from various artist cds.

 

[dviswa]

Milkweg,
My Music for Airports got shipped