In the terminal stages of paper writing, you need kinetic, stimulating tunes in a major key (to keep things optimistic) that aren’t attention-grabbing enough to distract you from the task at hand.
This is two hours of music that eases you into a working mindset before picking up intensity at the one-hour mark to drive you through those last few paragraphs.
01. Fridge - “Cut Up Piano and Xylophone” (Happiness)
02. Neu! – “isi” (Neu! ’75)
03. Sigur Rós - “Unitled [Track 3]” ( () )
04. Jim O’Rourke – “94 The Long Way” (Bad Timing)
05. Brian Eno – “The Big Ship” (Another Green World)
06. Citay – “Moonburn” (Little Kingdom)
07. Gastr Del Sol – “Bauchredner” (Camofleur)
08. Múm - “There Is A Number Of Small Things” (Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is OK)
09. Braids – “Little Hand” (Native Speaker)
10. Ratatat – “Cherry” (Ratatat)
11. Aphex Twin – “Xtal” (Selected Ambient Works 85-92)
12. Mogwai - “2 Rights Make 1 Wrong” (Rock Action)
13. Dan Deacon - “Surprise Stefani” (Bromst)
14. John Zorn - “Rendering” (Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum)
15. Tortoise - “The Equator” (TNT)
16. Cave - “High, I Am” (Psychic Psummer)
17. Jaga Jazzist - “Day / Another Day” (The Stix)
18. Steve Reich - “Section V” (Music for 18 Musicians)
19. Squarepusher - “Beep Street” (Hard Normal Daddy)
20. Mark McGuire – “Brain Storm” [For Erin] (Living With Yourself)
21. Meat Puppets – “Magic Toy Missing” (Meat Puppets II)