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I do a lot of work at my desk while playing music. I find that mostly-wordless music that has enough beat or texture to it that I can't tune it out is my optimal flow music.
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
elevation
Under Between
Dialect
a sonic painting
Calming Signals
Rich Ruth
a wild, jazzy space trip
Rest In Space
Islandman
groovy as hell
Ostriconi
Yeahman
c'est meh?
Yellow River Blue
Yu Su
a field trip
Cicada Waves
Ben Seretan
piano in the rainstorm
Fat Albert Rotunda
Herbie Hancock
Hey Hey Hey
The Room
Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
best of the year
Acutally Good
Lambert
what.
The Year In Immersive 2024
blissed and blessed
Convex
Nym
eco-chill
15 Shades of White
various
audio snowfall
Outerstate
Kessoncoda
garden shed post-jazz
Double Figure
Plaid
a landmark
Strands
Steve Hauschildt
relentlessly calm
Atlas of Green
Dialect
A delightful shot of meta-nostalgia
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
one historical night
Gymnosphere Song Of The Rose
Jordan De La Sierra
reissued and renewed
Uninvisible
Medeski Martin & Wood
getting kinda medeski in here
Man Made Object
GoGo Penguin
three is a magic number
Ballroom Ghosts
Jim Copperthwaite
a wonderfully single-minded project
Compassion
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey
awesome trio date
Until We Meet The Sky
Solar Fields
full-spectrum beauty
My Goal's Beyond
John McLaughlin
guitar man
Suzi Ecto
Call Super
ectotechnic
Madar
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
A global summit
Deathbed Requests
Memory Drawings
spooky bliss
Planet Shhh!
Human Pyramids
Bliss on a Bandcamp budget
Slow Water
Stephan Crump
the river
uNomkhubulwane
Nduduzo Makhathini
zulu healer jazz
Paris 3/21/2024
Nils Frahm
très ambiant
Tokyo 1/31/2024
GoGo Penguin
GoGoGoGo
Morning Trials
Francisco Sonur
a lovely breath of fresh air
Motionless
Wornoc
cool
Last Boy Picked
Kuntari
DRUM!
Zephyr
Toechter
dark ambient classical
Ambient Buddhism
Takeo Suzuki
ambienter than thou
Hologram Plaza
Disconscious
mallchillvibewavecoresoft
Yawn Zen
Mndsgn
maybe too zen?
Hope
Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke
guitar and piano
Night Walk
Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night
heeeeeeeeey
Lord Of The Harvest
Peter Talisman
downtempo primitive
Notes With Attachments
Pino Palladino and Blake Mills
low key funk fest
Tahoe
Dedekind Cut
the dedekindest cut
Harmony In Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker
The master
Guile
Oblique Occasions
funky
Pucker
Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola
8-string goodness
From Here We Go Sublime
The Field
sublime.
Whatever The Weather
Whatever The Weather
running a temp
Wuhan Wuhan
Hualun
woo hoo
At Zeenath Parallel Heavens
Black To Comm
ominous but beautiful
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Do Make Say Think
ballsy post rock
Yacht Rock Breaks
Camino 84
kind of amazing
Through The Looking Glass
Midori Takada
transcendent ambient
Se Ve Desde Aquí
Mabe Fratti
post-chamber
Tiny Resistors
Todd Sickafoose
not sick.
Deaden The Fields
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving
GoGo Wallaby
Distorted Rooms
Radian
trip-hoppy sound sculpture
Inheritance
Omar Ahmad
smooth sailing
East Of The River Nile
Augustus Pablo
instrumental rastafari
Loop Finding Jazz Records
Jan Jelinek
fun and noodly
To Will A Space Into Being
Josh Semans
ondes martenot? more like ondes martenYES, AMIRITE
The Branches
Long Arm
the algorithm gets one right
Spirit Exit
Caterina Barbieri
beautiful skronk
Baralku
Emancipator
comfort food.
Night Walks
Hidden Orchestra
jazzy chill
Throbbing Pouch
Wagon Christ
essential
The Book Room
Kilchhofer
verchillen
Mechanical Fair Live
Ola Kvernberg
unjazzy jazz
438Hz As It Is, As You Are
Tomoyoshi Date
everything is relative
Matter
noemi buchi
a shining mess
Chill Out
The KLF
regret to inform, KLF is not gonna rock you in this instance.
In Between Thoughts... A New World
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
latin-flavored guitar shred
Through Empty Landscapes and New Beginnings
Mirek Coutigny
elegance defined
Green Mirror
Secret Circuit
spacey modern electronica
Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock
Sharrock's Magnum Opus
Machinarium Soundtrack
Tomáš Dvořák
a delightful soundtrack to a fun game
Ultraviolet
Kelly Moran
ambient prepared piano
Documerica
Ethel
pictures at an exhibition
Onda
Jambinai
curb-stomping post-rock goodness
Arrival (Original Soundtrack)
Johann Johannsson
a flat circle
Musique Du Crepuscule
Fragments de la Nuit
chamber goth
Black Origami
Jlin
a dancefloor breakthrough
Good Luck And Do Your Best
Gold Panda
dance panda dance
11th Orbit
Emancipator & Lapa
chilled and trance-inducing
Excavation
Haxan Cloak
metal-AF ambient doom
Wild Light
65daysofstatic
a post rock tour de force
Happy Child
Carmen Jaci
whimsical electronic
Virgins
Tim Hecker
Dense, creepy, and gorgeous
Young Team
Mogwai
fear mogwai
Reflection
Loraine James
liquid hip-house
West Coast Love Stories
Stone Giants
trippy ambient psych
Tri Repetae
Autechre
IDM classic
Positano Songs
Will Ackerman
mellow with a lower-case m
In For A Penny, In For A Pound
Henry Threadgill & Zooid
Pulitzer-winning compositional chamber jazz
Safe In The Steep Cliffs
Emancipator
an explosion of calm and lucidity in my brain
Permutation
Amon Tobin
an all time favorite electronic record
Natura
Drum & Lace
an elegant soundtrack to your imagination
Healing Is A Miracle
Julianna Barwick
A choir of angels
The year in Concentration 2022
Music to get stuff done
The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus
A new beginning for an older group
Dark Matter
Moses Boyd
a modern jazz instant classic
Music For Nine Postcards
Hiroshi Yoshimura
Japanese minimalism
Natural Sonic
Yoshiaki Ochi
Early ambient
Edition 1
King Midas Sound and Fennesz
foggy electronic pop
Guitar In The Space Age
Bill Frisell
nostalgic surf safari
I Survived, It's Over
Rich Ruth
chill, elegant, and engrossing
Aura
Hatis Noit
A mind-bending, mind-mending journey
...and they have escaped the weight of darkness
Olafur Arnalds
orchestral slowcore ambient
The Dancers At The Edge Of Time (2015)
Greg Foat Group
understated modern cosmic jazz
Chalice Hymnal
Grails
doomy, gloomy, roomy, and boomy
Forward / Return
The Album Leaf
v. chill but interesting on a deep listen
All Is Wild All Is Silent
Balmorhea
ambient country?
Mother Earth's Plantasia
Mort Garson
play it for your plants
E2-E4
Manuel Gottsching
a great discovery
Rays Of Darkness
MONO
dark post rock
The Last Dawn
MONO
pretty post rock
Engravings
Forest Swords
a moody instrumental jam
New Bodies
Tangents
new directions in sound
Very Neon Pet
Peter Scherer
peak 90s IDM / Euro-jazz
These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound
Richard Skelton
wide-open ambient spaces
Alive
Hiromi
an under-recognized genius
Ainavihantaa
Malady
Finnish prog-tinged nu-jazz
