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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  • A meandering set with some tech difficulties partway through. Not our best, but an enjoyable set nonetheless methings.

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  • We changed up the format completely this week- about half an hour into the show, we switch to only video game instrumentals, and we got a…

  • This is probably the most consistently mellow set I've done for Warm Focus- relaxed to the point of verging on ambient or new age at times.

  • This is a fun one. We start off very acoustic and cool, then heat up in the second half to some highly jiggly vibrations, to paraphrase…

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