Listening to the same "meditative" album over and over again (such as Kraftwerk's Autobahn) can induce a Pavlovian effect of entering flow states easily ;)

Depends on what I'm doing.

1. "Mundane work" - Anything, with or without lyrics. I'm a huge fan of funk, Motown, classic rock, city pop, and more.

2. "Some concentration" - Opera or instrumental music. The oud is one of my favorite instruments and I have a playlist devoted to Middle Eastern music that has lots of oud-focused songs.

3. "More concentration" - Ambient music and atmospheric sounds. For instance, there's an hour-long YT video of the ambient noises from Thief: The Dark Project that I can put on, as well as a few others from other games.

4. "Full concentration" - Silence.

It varies a lot. For many years I mostly listened to heavy metal or hip-hop while coding. I've also always listened to classical music instead, at times. But more and more over the last couple of years I've drifted to listening to synthwave / darkwave / retrowave type stuff when coding. It's still a mix of "all of the above" but the ratio has gradually skewed more and more in favor of the synthwave stuff.

Every once in a while I'll opt for something completely different like one of those "coffee shop sounds" tracks or something.

Silence. As much silence as possible. I want to drown in it.

This is one:

Music video: Sitar - Vilayat khan - Rarely Heard Ragas: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya...

The "lofi hiphop radio - beats to relax and study to" channel on youtube[0].

Normally I have the attention span of a magpie (which is why I have HN open all the time) but it really helps me focus.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A

I enjoy Infected Mushroom and other EDM songs. I find the repetitive nature of the songs to help with focus.