Warm Focus

About Warm Focus

Warm Focus is genre agnostic instrumental music, walking the line between mellow & energetic, digital & analog, high & low BPM. Each week we attempt to induce a two-hour state of Flow in the listener: the sense that your work is carrying you along effortlessly like a log in a stream.

Long, uninterrupted sets of instrumental music carefully selected as a background for doing creative work. I aim to energize and focus the mind without ever feeling distracting or alienating. Warm, human music weaving between between the background and the foreground.

In practice, music that fits this bill can come from a wide array of genres, but I work hard to make each song in the set feels "of a piece". Some broad-callouts of the kinds of things I would include: electronic (Plaid, Four Tet, Pantha du Prince, Kate Simko), instrumental Hip-Hop (J Dilla, MF Doom, Oddisee, Ta-Ku), modern composers (David Axelrod, Hauschka, Nicolas Jaar, Philip Glass, Jon Brion).

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  • Late start this week... ignore the first 3 minutes and 40 seconds, as that's an old show. We begin at the 3:45 mark!

  • |EPISODE STARTS AT 2:30 MARK| This is a positively upbeat, warm and mix, averaging in the 70-90 bmm range. Really happy with how this one turned…

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  • Today's Warm Focus is an experiment... every song is in the key of C, and mixed to a steady 120 beats per minute for the entire…

  • Nature sounds, delicate pianos, fuzz... and an upbeat, SNL finish :)

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