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I need some music to listen to while writing.

I guess what I'm looking for is ambience, but beats are fine. Can't have lyrics, because that shit's distracting. So are breaks in a song where some loud shit just happens out of nowhere for no reason.

Got anything for me?

>> No.2405146

Thelonius Monk. Dave Brubeck.

>> No.2405153

>>2405146

thank you

>> No.2405155

this is the kind of stuff I listen to when I read

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ZjX2Qulwo&feature=related

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I sometimes listen to Chopin when writing. The second link is my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUw78FXpG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llni1Dn-f4U&feature=related

And when I want some fanfare, I listen to the Final Fantasy Tactics OST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NN_0QOtNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpyD5Z-nig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdeHJKicmc

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>>2405140
Art Tatum is good if you like piano jazz. It's dynamic but not too distracting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNAJlqn0nO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtDQH8znjM&feature=related

Look up Bach's Well-tempered Clavier. There are a ton of versions out there and they're all done a little bit differently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmGbYXt7U8

Boards of Canada is good for sort of dark ambient with the occasional beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o

Wes Montgomery is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvdU7f-q7I

As is Joe Pass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtCXV_A7Wk

>> No.2405236

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-S9lrnLZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPjpflNssY

>> No.2405238

Listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor's final album, Yanqui U.X.O.

It's instrumental, slow-burning, motif and crescendo based music, about 75 minutes on this album:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6heys33z74qzzbm

>> No.2405242

I prefer more of the contemporary masters, myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTxNTxTtm0&feature=relmfu

>> No.2405244

this shit's awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKsmqP5Q6YM

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2405248

Try with some good jazz, it's what I listen to when I'm writing: Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Andrew Hill, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Albert Ayler, Bill Evans, Alice Coltrane, Soft Machine, Henry Cow.

I also recommend Talk Talk's last two albums, Earth's first album, Natural Snow Buildings, Tim Hecker, Autechre and Les Rallizes Dénudés.

But you probably won't check any of these artists though, right?

>>2405232
Ehh I wouldn't say that BoC are dark ambient.

>> No.2405250

>>2405248
Oh, and I almost forgot about Stars of the Lid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1FUDpLCvU