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Re:Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise by acchow on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @04:21PM (#5327433)
> I find productive music to almost always lack vocals.

This agrees with generally accepted psychological models. The mind is totally single-threaded in language processing/parsing (compared to incredible parallelism in spatial processing).

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Re:Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise by bbs on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @06:00PM (#5328036)
This is why I don't understand you can hear voices in the coffitivity vocals, you need music not to catch some (parts of) sentences here and there. I do like it so far though, on the note of music that is nice to code to try out Pretty Lights.
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