Mostly:

Halftime and future bass, stuff like ivy labs and mad Zach, and two fingers

90s alternative like pixies, nirvana, aic.

30s and 40s jazz and blues

Most of the music I listen to fits under the alternative umbrella. While I never actually spent a lot of time directly on /mu/ that type of online music culture circa ten years ago has been very influential on my music taste. A couple of years ago I also had a big emo phase, in particular 90’s emo and 10’s emo revival. I also listen to a lot of punk and post hardcore.

I’m an open format DJ, so I listen to everything except Hick Hop, and that annoying sub-genre of electronic music that consists of little more than someone repeating the same word or phrase over a simple drum beat. Have no idea what it’s called, but kids under 30 seem to love it and I just don’t understand why.

Mostly golden age hip hop, metal and its various subgenres (heavy metal, doom metal, death metal etc), classic rock, indie, post-hardcore, and pop-punk

Polyphia typically

Mainly black and old school death metal. Also some ambient and contemporary classical.

Hardstyle, (Electronic) Hardcore, DnB, Trance. Don’t really mind metal etc either, but I generally don’t listen to it myself. Most pop music bores me because it’s too slow. I need speed and intensity but I don’t really mind repetition.

I usually don’t, which is completely sacrilegious as a musician, but I’d rather be playing it myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I do bother, it is usually Broadway (have not seen that here yet!), the pop music of my childhood, classical, classic rock, or anything I have ever performed before. Around Christmastime I have a dedicated Christmas playlist which is just Christmas songs.

50/50 if I can have music on while programming. Sometimes it becomes background noise, sometimes my brain starts focusing hard on the music and I need to not have that.

I listen to everything. My main jam is melancholic singer-songwriter stuff or songs that tell stories, but I also listen to electronic, metal, folk, world music, whatever I enjoy. Last year my most-played stuff was Nothing Else Matters from the Wednesday soundtrack (0.01%), Sabaton (0.1%) and Japanese enka songs. The year before it was German singer-songwriter Anna Depenbusch, who I had just discovered.

Either https://musicforprogramming.net/ , some vaporwave, some really extreme/cavernous death metal or noise rock. Free jazz. Possibly some instrumental kraut rock if I feel like it, the motorik beat is great for focus.

I mostly listen to powermetal, symphonic metal and some rock. But I’m no programmer, I’m a sysadmin.

Progressive metal & related genres (currently listening to the newest Eidola album on repeat, and some Dance Gavin Dance), and bebop jazz.

But I don’t program; I’m mostly cleaning up artwork for commercial printing.

I need something without understandable lyrics (unless I’ve listened to that song many times before) and something that pumps me up, but doesn’t cause headaches. So, 8-bit music and cheesy / ‘epic’ cinematic scores work well.

Well, unless it’s 4 o’clock in the morning. Then nothing beats classical music. I’m never as productive as I am at 4 AM, listening to Beethoven and friends.

Pretty much anything EDM and a lot of hip-hop/rap. Some 90-2000s rock tossed in too

I feel like it’s very varied, but I’m not one to listen to metal or much rock. What I listen to changes from time to time.

I know the meme/prejudice of programmers listening to metal, and having long hair. I can’t say I’ve ever felt like it was confirmed or justified. But it’s not like I have that much exposure or insight to many either.

I’m not even sure I can list genres; I feel like it’d be too many and unspecific anyway. Chillhop, chillsynth, hip-hop, deep house, some pop, some german and japanese music, some chiptune, some classics of the last century; some are shared on https://soundcloud.com/kissaki