Not for everyone. Each programmer has their own appreciation of what is good coding music.

## For when I need to think deep, debug something, or design

(From most influential to least)
- David Helpling & Jon Jenkins ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPz76nomCc))
- Patrick O'Hearn ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmXAh1dp-A))
- Ólafur Arnalds ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rcg1ubkAeo))
- Michael Hedges ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9mmZyGb4s))
- Alex de Grassi ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua2Qnl_Zq2w))
- Erik Wøllo ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDi9kkMv0M))
- Jon Hopkins ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKiJXTwMnk))
- George Winston ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N1vN5wKIxw))
- Bruno Sanfilippo ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onjx28Tg4Pk))
- many others

## For when I need to code like mad and get things done

(From most influential to least)
- Anup Sastry ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O5qNV97Jzo))
- Liquid Tension Experiment ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8))
- Sithu Aye ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4TY-Fxg7Hk))
- Dream Theater ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2R6RNwHDY))
- The Mars Volta ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzRFlXbq-cY))
- many others

## Something in between those two categories above

(From most influential to least)
- Le Matos ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-83q3k_4uw))
- Tycho ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wWBLbQInqk))
- Vibrasphere ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zml1AxD-uqo))
- Aes Dana ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5wA6gp92e0))
- Billy Cobham ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_SqtFerjg))
- Shpongle ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tVs_R8-WT0))
- Greg Haines ([sample](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOngVnWpJU))
- many others