I like listening to video game music when studying. I heard somewhere that game designers use their music to keep you playing their game and lose track of time and hyper focused.
In a Space Outta Sound by Nightmares on Wax
Any rando lofi channel on YouTube/Spotify/Online Radio Stations
I think this is a really good answer. Just search for a focus playlist on whatever platform and let it run.
If I’m picking out music more specific, I find myself thinking about that, and what it’s like, and if it’s helping, and maybe I should hey this other album or artist.
Don’t let picking the music distract too much from focusing on what you want to do.
Bonobo - Dial M for Monkey
Autechre’s NTS Sessions. All of them work great, but start with the fourth one.
Perlence subrange 6-36 is good too
Use something mellow in a different language from your own, it is less distracting.
I like to listen to brasilian Bossa Nova like this Getz/Gilberto Album
Or something without lyrics like Yiruma if you like Piano music.
Little Songs About Raindrops - Lullatone
Anything from Hammock. The older albums mostly.
Not really a album but MyNoise.net has a lot of good generators for background noise. Radio Free Fedi’s Comfy channel also is great for chill study music, and it only plays indie artists that have Fediverse accounts with links to the artist support pages where you can either buy their albums (or songs to build your own piecemeal) https://radiofreefedi.net/.
Every album by the band Can
I was introduced to them & Cabaret Voltaire around the same time (~100yrs ago). Both are still golden.
Bit of of left field here: The going under OST. Was the soundtrack to my exams
Jan Garbarek - Visible World
Piano Phase by Steve Reich
Nils Frahm’s Felt, or the soundtrack to Victoria
Atomos or the self titled album by A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Almost anything recent by Carbon Based Lifeforms but Alt:01, Alt:02, or Stochastic especially
Loscil is great but not a single album stands out though Submerz and Endless Falls are smooth
Hammock’s soundtrack for the movie Columbus
Brian Mcbrides The Effective Disconnect
I would recommend Stars of the Lid, but they are too sleepy for me. However, when Brian Mcbride and Adam Witzie do their own thing it is usually less sleep inducing-
I just added a bunch of classical to a playlist and then removed the occasional piece I found distracting. I still use that playlist when I need to focus.
