Thanks for the hint. Just listened to their "Sacred white noise" album on youtube. The music is definitely interesting, but even less suited for me to get into a programming flow (still too much going on, and soooo nihilistic). That's music I listen to out of my interest as a musician myself, but not for programming. Maybe you know "Music for 18 Musicians" by Steve Reich (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOmUi4HGt0) which transports me in an abstract world that let's me flow away and program for hours without noticing.
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Yes I love that piece, such a trip - good for driving too. When I was at school and revising for exams I used to listen to a lot of classical music, mainly Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Elgar, Britten - I found that it really helped (also The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett). So maybe the ultimate focus music is a bit like classical but with added noise and hypnotic rhythmic patterns ...
Steve Reich is "minimal music", played on classical instruments. I very much appreciate all other composers/improvisers you mention, but again they would distract me too much and require my full attention, barely leaving anything left for "mental work". There is also fully algorithmically composed and played music which sometimes has a similar effect as Reich's 18 Musicians IMHO: e.g. https://djezmusic.bandcamp.com/album/idem.
Wow, yes the Idem album really does well for focus music, thanks for the tip.
Not sure if this is up your street but if you ever need to focus AND be super fast productive, here's a good compilation https://bcco.bandcamp.com/album/bccova16-curated-by-berkikz
Thanks for the link, will have a listen.