Thanks to the Spacemind mixes, I went down a rabbit hole of ambient music that perfectly fits my mood for programming.
Now I have some new programming music!
How about a 66 hour playlist of music like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGrL9DXxvA&list=PLGJ4AkLwvhjT7CXrV35yVFtqa9hNaI1Ge&pp=8AUB
Some of the videos are no longer up on YT, but I could send you the full collection if you want. It totals to 71 hours.
Iām a huge fan of space ambient @xelph, especially when it comes to focus tasks like development.
For radio versions of this sort of music, each of these stations focus on slightly different flavours of the space ambient genre:
Then thereās also Space Travel Radio: An Exploration of Sound for Star Citizens:
Meanwhile on earth 
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Listened to the first episode of Legend: The Miles Davis Story earlier today, so Iāll be listening to Birth Of The Cool later 
Not sure if these are available outside 
but the BBC has lots of radio shows to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis
I suddenly went deaf about 5 years ago (long story, but sudden deafness does happen, and unfortunately I won that lottery), so I canāt listen to new music - but I have a fine backlog of music memorized. I ālistenā in my head to all kinds of music, but mostly jazz and avant-garde rock. Right now, Iām ālisteningā in my head to Cecil Taylorās astounding debut album Jazz Advance.
Earlier, I was visiting The Minutemenās Double Nickels on the Dime.
Iām deaf but I still āhearā great music. I still play guitar, too, mostly jazz standards. I canāt literally hear myself playing guitar but decades of playing have left me with a quite good sense of relative pitch, and I can feel the vibrations of the strings. Plus I just plain enjoy the feeling of the strings under my fingers.
Iām not deaf (yet) but I can āplayā entire tracks, itās weird. I can hear a 3 minute, 35 second song from beginning to end, in my head. Much like you can remember/hear to tracks on Cecil Taylor.
incredible how musicians develop muscle memory, not unlike an athlete, when they play. I love avant garde jazz, donāt listen to modern jazz (metheny type flowery stuff) but I have a special love for what you call the ājazz standardsā as Iām blaring Joe Jacksonās take on Tuxedo Junction as we speak.
Rock on.
Itās kind of amazing that I can still play guitar, but then again, thatās from my perspective. Maybe itās not so amazing at all, but Iāve never met or read anything from someone in my same situation.
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Iām not a hell of a lot of years behind you. If sudden deafness happened to me in my 30s/40s I woulda googled ādeaf musiciansā and learned all you could.
Now I wouldnāt give a shit.
If you can play that guitar with your fingers and your heart, and it works, well then, thatās the magic. I would love the mystery and leave it at that. Donāt read anything. Plus your GF is 49
Yeah, she moved into the building 6 years ago and I swooped in on her right quick 
. Like a vulture. I can be quite charming when it benefits me 
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Not bad for a 67 year old deaf guy (I wasnāt deaf when I met her).
I generally donāt care for Pat Methenyās output, but you should give a listen to Song X (a collaberation with the late, great Ornette Coleman) and Zero Tolerance for Silence - not flowery at all, and I love both of those albums dearly. Metheny rips on those albums.
Zero Tolerance for Silence is quiteā¦abrasive, similar to the best of Sonny Sharrock.
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I donāt think one needs to be a Star Trek: DS9 fan to hear the beauty here. Personally, as a Star Trek fan, the DS9 theme has been my favorite since the series debut in 1993. But musically, Star Trek or notā¦ this is BRILLIANT.