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Today is powered by Sam Feldt

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My work day is powered by my SoundCloud mix, “Music to smooth my work days” and one mix by Sam Feldt, in particular, works well for me today:

I really like the change around 20:40 or so but this is the sort of track you can just run for the hour or so it lasts and focus on some work. I like Sam Feldt’s mixes on SoundCloud, really good for those times I don’t want to mess with playlists and let something different run while I work. He often includes quotes in the beginning of these long mixes. I wrote about another one I like a while ago:

Steve Jobs just makes this mix for me

One thing I would love to see is SoundCloud’s playback controls integrated into my Mac’s music playback controls when I am listening to SoundCloud. I keep hitting the “play/pause” button when someone wants to speak to me and it launches iTunes or continues a track in an open iTunes playlist by mistake.

I also just found a playlist with all of Feldt’s “mixtapes” (very retro) on SoundCloud which I am going to dive into one day when I have a big writing project:

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Update (2016-01-26): Sam Feldt replied to my post tweet on Twitter a few minutes after it was published. I get a kick out of quick feedback like this!

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A perfect track for introspection

https://soundcloud.com/mrsuicidesheep/luke-howard-oculus

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Music for work

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Music plays a huge role in my life. I listen to a lot of music and I’m pretty picky about my music. I’m not even remotely an audiophile but I don’t bother with crappy quality music downloads. I want 256kbps at a minimum and I prefer the AAC format.

I’ve started listening to music on SoundCloud a lot lately. I have found quite a bit of music that works really well for me when I work and its great quality. I created a playlist of some great music for work which is my default when I start working and I thought I’d share it:

I’ve also started using Apple Music (3 month free trial – why not?) and I like it quite a lot! The selection is great and I like many of the suggested play lists. It also ties into the store where I buy my music (Apple Music is basically a gateway to music purchases) so that works well for me too.

Image source: Nine Inch Nails, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 2.0