I don’t really like thinking about what to listen to, so I use di.fm (an internet radio for electronic music) and just enjoy the endless stream of music. Some of my favorite channels:

• Electro Swing - my absolute favorite, energetic and fast but improves focus
• LoFi Hip-Hop - like the popular YouTube mixes but better curated and higher-quality
• Liquid DnB - this is the middle ground between relaxing LoFi and energetic “Matrix” style coding music

It was really hard to find music I enjoy but I can also concentrate while listening to it. These 3 channels have been the absolute best for me in this regard. I hope you will like them too.

After years of trying different genres I found the best music for me: instrumental metal.

My go to artists are:

• Andromida, for something hardcore
• God is an Astronaut, for something melodic and chill
• Outrun the Sunlight, TANK86, Modern day Babylon for the times when I want to listen to something else
• anything that Spotify recommends

And my recent discovery: The HU. Mongolian band playing a mix of folk/rock/metal with a lot of throat singing. Since I don’t understand Mongolian and throat singing is very uncommon for me, I just treat it as another instrument, and it can easily get me in the zone.

I use brain.fm and switch genre as needed, but I mostly stick to lofi and rain.

I have 2 categories, either Classical Music ( actually my preferred classical programming music is The Legend of Zelda: Concert 2018 by Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and I’m not entirely sure it qualify as “Classical” ) or 80-style hard rock (Like the soundtrack for Peacemaker)

Anything with upbeat tempo, i have a 5 day playlist of metal music i just shuffle…

I mainly listen to classical music. Mainly clarinet concertos, because I just happen to have a lot of them.

If you’re into ambient stuff: https://musicforprogramming.net/