Working at home I’ve found it hard to concentrate with no sound around me so I started listening to music. However it seems that my preferred genre of American punk and hardcore circa 1990’s isn’t conducive to concentrating on big spreadsheets and stuff.

So I went on BBC sounds and found this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pwjg

Only played it because of the title but it has weirdly helped me concentrate really well.

What sort of music is it? Is it all one genre or what? Yes I know I could Google these questions but where’s the fun in that? 😂😂

I would probably like some more of it but I don’t have (or want) Spotify etc so any more free online sources like BBC sounds for this sort of stuff?

Playing it through my phone so next step is some speakers, don’t have any Bluetooth speakers or anything like that, and the separates systems are downstairs, hmmm maybe a 1990’s Cyrus amp would fit nicely on my desk….. 😀😀

I have a Bluetooth speaker and a pair of over ear Bluetooth headphones.

I find a streaming service is good for finding stuff and mixing up the daytime listening from lots of different sources and often stuff I’d never dream of having on to “listen to music” (my main musical preferences being in the grunge/metal/punk vein). What does stink is that it keeps sticking the same songs into different playlists over and over.

A few weeks ago it was putting up some decent trance and house stuff but struggling to find similar now annoyingly!

Acidy jazzy hiphoppy stuff mostly at quick listen.

It’s a great playlist IMO, especially as I listen to Joel Culpepper, Ghost Poet, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Jane Weaver

More suggestions in and around those vibes:

Stereolab (suggest ‘Dots and Loops’ album)

Jane Weaver – (suggest ‘ Modern Kosmology’ album)

D J Shadow – Endtroducing

Little Dragon

Yeah, just had a quick listen and it’s jazzy, trip-hop, mellow instrumental hip-hop, with a few funky cuts thrown in.

For similar, listen to stuff on Mo-Wax, Ninja Tunes, etc.

On Ninja tunes – Cinematic Orchestra is great for mellow home working, as is some Mr Scruff )though can get a bit bouncy). Some of their older compilations have a great mix of tunes.

Also try the Headz albums from Mowax + Attica Blues, Major Force West, and many others.

Crumb

Fela Kuti

A Tribe Called Quest

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Moses Gunn Collective

Childish Gambino

Eric B. & Rakim

David Axelrod

Yves Tumor

The Field

Digable Planets

Donald Byrd

GAS/Wolfgang Voigt

Kokoroko

(All stuff I listen to while working!)

Fela Kuti – good choice 🙂

^ … possible downside is that you have to cut a rug/set a blaze/combo at some point, no matter if you try and resist YOU WILL LOSE. So best wfh. Unless are mad confident around colleagues 🤣 🕺🏿 Save Fela for the home run/end of day to be safe.

Get all of Bonobo’s first few albums down yeh earholes.

If you like Fela, have you listened to Antibalas?
They’re a great, New York based afrobeat band.

And yes, Bonobo.

You may like Darkside – Nicolas Jarr and Dave Harrington, sorta psychedelic electronica.

If you like Fela, have you listened to Antibalas?

Good call. I used to a lot. Still have ‘Talkatif’ on a walking/bimbletour playlist that has been in process since from 2002, so it must be good to survive the chop! 🙂

Also The Budos Band once in a while. And GODTET, which is sort of afrobeat warped thru some genius wizardy. Just wish the songs were longer.

Also Newen Afrobeat, but a little more hit and miss.

That said, this IMO is a great, great tribute to Fela, and featuring Seun. I can’t stop listening to it for some years now.

Souljazz Orchestra and Kokoroko for afrobeat also. Which, confusingly is very different to afrobeats.

Darkside is a good shout, I’ve not listened to that in ages. That’s on this morning’s playlist.

My latest favourite is Bohemia After Dawn by The Bahama Soul Club – excellent chilled album for getting on with work when this place isn’t distracting me

I’d recommend the Madlib and J Dilla side of things from that playlist. Especially Madlib – loads of back catalogue to explore. Nice mix of stuff there – the 2 Quakers albums are superb too.
oh and the recently departed MF DOOM (JJ Doom, Viktor Vaughn, Madvillain) should be up your street.

So I went on BBC sounds and found this:://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pwjg

It is really good music – good find and I’m listening to the Dan Snaith/Caribou one right now. Unfortunately what I can’t do is work at the same time. Hey ho…

The Hidden Orchestra do great working music I find: technically jazz but it’s modern and drum heavy. They’ve done a number of mixtapes on Soundcloud which are just awesome:

http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Hidden-Orchestra-Flight-Mixtape

I listen to a lot of stuff like this while working

Crumb

Fela Kuti

A Tribe Called Quest

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Moses Gunn Collective

Childish Gambino

Eric B. & Rakim

David Axelrod

Yves Tumor

The Field

Digable Planets

Donald Byrd

GAS/Wolfgang Voigt

Kokoroko

TWO of these (MAX) are real bands. The rest you literally just made up, right…!!!

DrP

^ DrP 🤣

Two questions:

1. Which two band names sounded ‘not made up’ to you?
2. Is that because you heard of them before or because you have a criteria of ‘normal band name’?

Disclaimer, I’m not big on band names, so it’s of interest to me much as if I’m an alien visiting Earth and understand the rules! I like the musics tho!

I remember when bands were nearly all named ‘The…(something). Older people than me back then thought ‘The The’ ‘wasn’t a real band name’, not like Catchagoogoo, Tears 4 Fears, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Yet Now Became A Sigil, or Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Park were real names 😎

Just go on Youtube. There’s hundreds of mixes in every style you can possibly think of and then let the YT algorithm takeover.Only listened to half of the first track on your link but try this helpfully titled “Chill study beats”

I can only study to Lo-Fi hip hop beats. I just click on Spotify playlists and start studying. However, doing this meant I had no idea what/who any of the tracks were in my Spotify 2020 review of the year

@p7eaven 🤣🤣😅😅

I jest… I’ve heard of a few. Love Childish Gambino…

But.. psychedelic porn crumpets… !
Lolz…

DrP

I’ve just recently discovered Kokoroko….really like them.

Absolutely loving the new Madlib/Four Tet stuff too. Apparently the album is amazing (think it might have been released this week? Not had a chance to check yet!)

Hang on there’s a Fourtet/madlib album?

(frantically googles)

Out on the 29th.

Fourtet’s last release, Parallel, was superb.
Madlib collab should be fab

I jest… I’ve heard of a few. Love Childish Gambino…

But.. psychedelic porn crumpets… !

Have to admit, they all sound made up to me! Like they just use a random word generator.

I remember first hearing ‘Me and yr Mama’ (sp?) off Redbone. But I could never remember his ‘name’ (still can’t!) – even after reading it a couple of times on the DAB screen. So had to search youtube by the album name. Then he became (with one song) a 751 million views superstar and yet I STILL can’t remember his name! I just say ‘that bloke who did This Is America 😂. I literally had to google him for this thread to add to my list. It’s a proper blind spot.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets? Silly, I agree. Though I can at least always remember it. But it’s only as daft as all the rest IMO!

What about

Khruangbin

Chumbawumba

Budgie (but is it objectively ‘worse’ than, say, ‘The Eagles’? it might have been a really smart budgie)?

Crispy Ambulance

Half Man Half Biscuit

Coldplay

Echo and The Bunnymen

Random innit?

Try this!

https://www.bandnamemaker.com/generator/?cw=&g=&c=&plurals=1

First one I saw was ‘Erectile Monastery and the Blasters’ 🤣

(Needs a thread)

OP – try Orbvs Terrarvm by The Orb? Not really, jazzy, hiphoppy or even funky, but it is IMO one of the great pieces of ambient/background/focus music. Between that and the ‘Gas’ discog I’ve worked countless all-nighters with those as soundtracks.

Does it Offend You Yeah?

Real!

my preferred genre of American punk and hardcore

You not coming back to denounce all these whoppers with their suggestions…?