music, or lack of

Silly question perhaps, but what do you listen to whilst you check out EVC?Is it soft calming music to ease the pains whilst decoding Brad's posts, or thrash metal to fuel the debating skills against Faith or RAZD?Or just silence?My preference is for ambient electronic music (Brian Eno, Autechre, Boards of Canada) and 20th century classical (John Adams, Steve Reich and Michael Nyman). Names and reasons please.

Janacek and Bartok I have (rarely listened to - but have been to their graves) but Rzewski is new to me.The John Cage connection (I have just read up on him) makes him interesting and will investigate. (music now on: Wire, following XTC - cannot completely ignore my teen post-punk years)

It seems tonight is the UK love-in.Cheers for the recommendation and information. I recently inherited my dad's vinyl collection (he is still with us, just wanted rid of nearly 10,000 records), and there he was(not my dad)! Not the piece you mentioned ,but a couple of short piano pieces (less than 3 mins), more like tone poems. Not really the stuff to type or read to, but as you said interesting. For jazzy I prefer Miles Davis and cool, anything Philip Glass (with a cold guinness).Music now - Joy Division - must be getting late.

I never had much time for trip-hop or hip-hop until I heard Prefuse73 - One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished Outakes are two superb albums by a man that states that hip-hop is dying a slow death. Not with this guy on-board.