I’ve went through a lot of types of study music, but I find this the best. It’s simultaneously minimalist and ambient enough for you not to get distracted, but also I feel it has a productive vibe to it with how busy the drums are. This is my go to playlist.
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This is the playlist I listen to when I am reading. It is not for everyone, but I found out music like this helps me focus after I saw a video of someone saying they listen to club music when they read and write, so I started listening to brutalismus 3000 while reading like they suggested but after I got to know the beats and patterns, I’d start jamming instead of reading, but Spotify started suggesting more and more music like the stuff on this playlist, and the lack of proper, regular patterns gives me the background noise without anything to latch onto for too long.
Feb 9, 2025
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been obsessed with breakcore lately the chaos in the music relaxes me. this is how you know you have mental illness.
Dec 5, 2024
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I am a background music girl through and THROUGH! I also used to religiously listen to Chopin but now I listen to tonnes more instrumental music;
Dev Hynes' scores for Queen & Slim and We Are Who We Are are so addictive to me and so unique, I love listening to them while studying.
Piero Piccioni is a composer that made scores for old Italian films and the Camille score and Amore mio aiutami score are my favs for studying when it's sunny.
I'm seconding the other reply left to this q. Whenever I'm doing the most boring work and I have no motivation I shuffle the Succession soundtrack and pretend that what I'm doing is super important and going to save the world.
Berlioz is an artist I listen to exclusively when I'm studying late. Jazz is the perfect vibe for late night studying but sometimes I just want to fall asleep so jazz-house is perfect because it keeps me awake enough.
Hiroshi Yoshimura's Surround album is a lot more ambient than my other recs and can put you to sleep if you listen late BUT is very calming and gorgeous and runs almost no risk of being distracting.
Mac DeMarco has a whole 9hr album of 90% instrumentals that I'll listen to sometimes.
Low-key also drum and bass... this is verrrrry hit or miss I'm aware. I can only listen in certain circumstances but sometimes when I need to do a lot of work quickly I'll just slap on an instrumental drum and bass playlist and hammer it out. Listened to Entanglements by Alix Perez for a while last year, but usually just find a playlist. Dnb tends to feature samples with words but I don't find them distracting typically as they're not at the forefront of the mix.
I also find that if I listen to music in a language I don't understand, the lyrics don't distract me as much. I've been listening to Eliana Pittman's self-titled album recently while studying but this could potentially apply to any album.
OMG okay that's all I have. I feel insane.
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Cure and Pulse are some of the few modern horror films that really freaked me out.
Also Mario Bava and Dario Argento, old Italian horror I love.
Apr 16, 2024
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a beautiful magical weird wuxia film from Hong Kong about two snakes learning what it means to love. Literally my favourite movie oat, every time I rewatch it gets better
Apr 15, 2024