My lofi isn’t cutting it today, but my podcast is pulling too much of my attention so I can’t think on my work. I need that sweet spot of interesting enough to quiet my mind but boring enough that I can ignore it and think on my work. Gonna look for a history documentary on Carthage or smth

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    yea it is a constant struggle to walk that line lol. my go to is rewatching tv shows I’ve seen 2+ times, currently listening to my name is earl, usually futurama or the good place

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    When I need to focus, I have an entire playlist of Weather Channel type jazz. It’s energetic enough to give me baseline stimulation but not so much to turn on party mode, and being instrumental means it doesn’t steal the attention of the words part of my brain and wreck my ability to actually do work.

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    I need drums to for stimulation. That’s why I mostly listen to uptempo breakbeats.

    You can’t go wrong with Ambient Jungle. If you need harder stimulation, try breakcore and its subgenres, like Junglecore.

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      And if you’re like me and breakcore is still way too boring, I usually listen to speedcore and extratone while I work

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    I often throw on bad horror movies on Shudder or something, basically anything that I know I won’t actually pay attention to but provides just enough extra chaos to take up the ADHD slack. I feel you on this one, haha.

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    House music. It’s essentially the same thing over an 8 bar loop. There’s so many variations of house too. Techno, drum and bass, someone else mentioned break beat.

    You can find happy stuff, melodic, deep or dark, etc.

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    I’ve been using a lot of these too lately,

    White Bat Audio or Karl Casey https://youtu.be/np4WhqkiAGo He has lots of mixes from chill synth to some heavy rockish synth stuff so something for a lot of moods.

    Ill Advised Records https://youtu.be/jELW6YU4o8Y They have lots of mixes with varying levels of chill, the lofi here tends to be a little more hard hitting. They also skew heavily to creepy/Halloween inspired stuff. They have some lofi synth too which is interesting and I’m not sure I’ve seen elsewhere.

    Edit: I’ve also come across some Pop Punk instrumentals playlist if that’s your thing. I like the energy but the lack of words helps not be too distracting. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65kW6wMm74u0b3JXbPkGdFLESFW7XWIV

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    Starcraft gameplay videos are the best thing I found for that. I’m not that interested in Starcraft so I can’t follow through, but there’s consistently stuff going on.

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    I’ve been using a generative AI music app called AIMI that essentially creates one giant song that never quits. You can pick from a handful of different genres (all within the electronic type). It’s pretty cool.