A Few Good Memes

I like electronica. Some of it, like Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Amon Tobin, and Jason Dunne quite a bit. Not to mention Trip-hop, esp. Portishead and Emilana Torrini.

And I like to listen to Trance music at work. I put on Rhapsody’s Trance station and code like the devil. But I gotta say, that trance music is a lot like watching the Flintstones drive somewhere.

Flintstones driving: you see Fred and Wilma pedaling their stone-wheeled car pretty hard. You see the background whizzing by. Then you realize that it’s the same background being repeated over and over to give a sense of motion.

Trance music: you hear some melody. You keep time with a pretty driving beat. You have the sense of time passing and interesting things happening. But really, it’s just the same thing being repeated at some rate just beyond your attention span.

Trance music is nearly modeless. This is a case where I prefer something more modal most of the time. Though not that kind of modal. But trance music sure helps me code, especially when it’s fairly deep coding. And I have to keep the leg jiggling.