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 really fun improvised set today. Starts really ambient and soft and then gradually warms up to a dancy second half.

  • This week, Warm Focus is all drum machines sequences, soul samples and instrumental boom bap...

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  • This week's episode is COLD AS HELL. Ice cube synth sounds, chilly strings, sparse soundscapes. Nuthin warm about this one. Put on an autumn sweater and…

  • Super chill vibes and smooth transitions in this week's episode. This was my first using a hardware controller, so it really let me fiddle with the…

  • Starts off as one of the more organic / symphonic episodes yet, but picks up some steam / beats by the end.

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