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sparerib1968

How I keep my sanity while working on my map

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I listen to a lot of different music, when mapping and otherwise, and usually go through obsessive phases with listening to one artist for a while. Some of the usual suspects are Porcupine Tree, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, The Decemberists, Beck, Sigur Ros, the pillows, Moody Blues, Junior Boys, Opeth...

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Tangerine Dream is amazing to listen to when searching for mapping inspiration, especially their earlier, more atmospheric/ambient albums. Then again, they're pretty amazing to listen to no matter what you're doing. Aside from that, pretty much anybody on my list of top artists.

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I don't know why I like the Heavy Metal soundtrack so much. I'm not a huge fan of late 70s/early 80s hard rock, but it seems like they put together a best of of that stuff. It also helps that I love the movie and it was at one point one of about 5 CDs I owned (yeah, it was one of my first).

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What I listened to during my first go-round was some hip-hop actually. More playful stuff to make sure I had fun with what I was doing. Redman, A Tribe Called Quest,and Jurassic 5 were all prevalent.

And whoa- Moody Blues? I definitely spun that at some point! A Question of Balance, I think... that makes me smile.

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Bucket said:

Ambient, usually. Or prog rock.


It took me a while to understand that this was about progressive rock. For some reason I thought that it was programmers' rock, a special variety of rock for computer programmers and the such :-p

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I'm usually listening to whatever album(s) I've been getting into at that point in time.

At the moment it's the new Raekwon, Porcupine Tree, and Megadeth.

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Here is some of the stuff I normally listen to... especially while mapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHYhTkcNEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4K4P5A6elQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2URIbAZRT4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlZMv4890U

And my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw_fj5jwnYk

I also listen to lots of psytrance, happy hardcore, hardstyle, old school rap, stoner rock/metal, and chillout.

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