I still don't listen to music while I play Go, but this song makes me want to play/study Go...

Bank: Epik High
Song: Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwKiGy2A_nU

Hmmm, I should really listen to Explosions in the Sky when I play. It seems about perfect for the task... No lyrics, but upbeat/driving enough to keep you going.

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I like to listen to Explosions in the Sky, Lone Wolf and Cub, Sigur Ros, Basically anything without lyrics. I find the music in the Background keeps me focused.

I've done this. The problem is that the music is so cathartic that you end up making overplays that you can't back up.

[(cathartic music)+(go)+(too many drinks)]*(throwaway account)=(awesome)

I think I may have posted in the original GD chat, but I always like this subject.

Although I tend to go for rock/hard rock music (Skillet, Disciple, Three Days Grace, Thousand Foot Krutch, Linkin Park, Trapt, etc.), I find that I like gentler music for Go, though that's not to say that I like low-tempo.

In fact, I have a specific Go song, Contact by Falling Up, that I listened to endlessly as a low kyu (and while reading Hikaru no Go) and now brings to mind only Go (and is a constant reminder of my awful games).

Here's a link for anybody interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arie-PHe21Y

This was reddit front page? I think this combination has been around for a long time. I've been listening to Rainymood combined with the Fragrance of Dark Coffee for at least 9 months... Though I never added a fireplace going. Not sure it adds much, so I'm not too worried.
I know I wasn't the first person to do this combo, I saw it on an imageboard long before I tried it.

Anything by these guys, I find it adds intensity to my games -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlL_-5VfQJI

Best music/go combo I ever had was at my club when some good solid James Brown came on the restaurant's BGM. I got the funk and and the groove and even though I didn't necessarily play any better, it sure FELT better. Kinda like those de ja vou (sp?) moments where everything seems familiar like you've done this hundreds of times before and you are just following the familiar flow.

Bruce "Grandmaster" Young

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You want to write "déjà vu", meaning already (déjà) seen (vu, perfect tense of voire - to see). I take it you're from the US?

No worries though, I will excuse your French. After seeing that even otherwise perfectly intelligent Americans are capable of writing horrifying things like "per say", in my mind Americans are somewhat collectively forgiven for foreign language abuse. What do you want, in a country with (apparently) zero language education. Your cradle just happened to stand in the wrong place on this planet, and there's nothing you could've done about that. All you can do is find a way to live with this misfortune. Good luck!

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My name is Gijs, from Utrecht, NL.

When in doubt, play the most aggressive move

Yeah, sorry about the laziness of not actually looking up the correct spelling and figuring out how to type accents on my keyboard, but I was caught up in the moment!

[Jingo] Watcha talking about? I talk good 'merican! Real good! Them Frenchies need to learn them how to spell! [/Jingo]

Bruce "Uncle Samuel" Young

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Currently reading: Plutarch, Cerebus, and D&Q 25th Anniversary

Kingdom of Heaven OST (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDIuBDFj9A)
Tales of Earthsea OST (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFPRp2dHrgo)
Das Boot Soundtrack
I used to play the Hikaru and Akagi OSTs while playing, but they've fallen out of favor.

But I've noticed whenever I have some difficult reading to do I instinctively switch off any music I play. I'm sure any music hurts my play, but playing with music is simply more fun.
Powerful orchestral music(which I love) hurts my play a lot, even when not fighting. It makes me overconfident and I overplay even more than normally.

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Sanity is for the weak.

i listen pretty much any music i currently like and i don't think it affects my go negatively at all - when i don't listen something, there is always some totally random song playing in my head (sometimes good one, sometimes not), repeating again and again, so i prefer listening something i can control (not to have to listen to voices in my head )

otherwise, my preferences varies a lot: rock (R.E.M), folk (Loituma), alternative rock, punk rock, steampunk (Abney Park), power metal (Rhapsody)
Flogging Molly, Gregorian, Era, and many various movie soundtracks (particularly from Tarantino movies)

PS: could someone recommend anything sounding similar to Meiko Kaji? (youtube sample). i have only one CD and it is not enough

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I might be wrong, but probably not.