I really like either something like Project Pat because it makes me feel like a baller as I slice up my enemies and crack jaws, or something like God is an Astronaut or Godspeed! because it makes me feel like I am doing something really epic.

The sweet sweet sound of my raid leader asking "Why can't you get behind the ice block?" on Vent.

(Uhm, lately a Hollertronix mix called "Bmore Gutter Music", but Godspeed! is really good too. Pretty much anything I'd listen to normally, I'll listen to while raiding.)

It's either jazz, or something like strapping young lad; mood dependent.

I think I'm bi-polar or something.

Related note: If anyone can recommend some good jazz, I'd be appreciative. I kinda got turned on to it via some nicola conte remixes, and don't really know crap about the genre.

Flower Travellin' Band

Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow, Bonobo, or Hive/Keaton.

I don't think I have a favorite equation.

In the interests of disclosure, Hellsoap doesn't actually raid. Or play WoW, really. He just comes by every month or so to make a dumb post.

I usually have some flavor of trance playing when I am out soloing or in a casual 5-man or something. On raids, it's just Vent and in-game sounds.

Raiding music, for me, is largely dependent on my mood and also on the time of day. But essentially it follows like this:

Early raid:

Coolio's Greatest Hits (includes the Kenan and Kell theme song)
The Streets
Aladdin Soundtrack
The Wu
Damien Marley
Dead Prez
Mae
Xzibit, mostly just the song "Choke me, Spank me (Pull my Hair)"


Middle of the raid:

Mos Def + Talib Kweli- Black Star [album]
Snow Patrol
Stars of Track and Field
Will Smith Greatest Hits (Namely Will2k)- "The new millenium, yo, escuse me, WILLENIUM")
Brother's Past- Leave the Light On

Note: Basically at this point I'm usually too inebriated to care, so this section of the raid is more fuzzy and my choice of music can be considered its most flexible.


Last hour or two of the raid:

Brandtson (The good, mellow songs)
Damien Rice
God is an Astronaut
Jealous Sound- Recovery Room
Wallflowers, mostly their first album
Sigur Ros

I agree with Kalman. Raiding music usually mimics my everyday music, tempered slightly by the other people in the room (read: girlfriend, though we have mostly overlapping taste)

Lately, if I put something on while raiding, it's Big Business, Pelican, Isis, Cave-in, Cable...basically the best stuff on Hydrahead or Relapse records.

I'm a big Don Caballero fan. They do a sort of math metal-ish/jazz hybrid. If you're feeling adventurous, John Zorn has releases spanning the genre from "WTF" to "ow my ears" to "oh that's nice"

I've only started listening to wow sounds recently. Before I always just had wow muted and had the tv on or listened on vent. However, I'm starting to really catch certain sounds and enjoy the game more as a result. Nothing is better than hearing a gnome mage screw up his aoe and make that cute little death scream as he kicks his feet up in the air.

I listen to 80s internet radio stations.

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Slaying WoW bosses to Mega Man boss music is priceless.

Can you elaborate on this, please?

I've noticed that a fair number of raid leaders hit the trance/techno bottle.

Guilty of evolution walking on fire while leading thaddius progression.

Raiding: Classical. The more relaxing, the better. Vivaldi is utterly choice. (Oh, we wiped? Cool, man...)

PVP: Trance, hard electro, and so forth. For some reason, it just goes with the level of perkiness required to attempt to kill anything as a PVE-specced rogue.

During trash clearing + farm mode bosses I sometimes listen to the soundtrack on Discordia's "MC Experience:" video. (Video is really old back when Shazzrah didn't blink and etc.)

Techno/trance/electronica in general. I highly recommend streaming http://di.fm for anyone interested in (for the most part) good electronica.

Ha, I remember that video. Do I recall correctly that they killed all of Garr's adds in that? I think I still have that one on my drive at home -- need to check it out later.

I will also sadly admit that a decent portion of my mp3 playlist comes from the compilation someone made of the tracks from all of Fura's videos on the old Nightmares Aslyum boards.

I am a raid leader, and I listen to Mindless Self Indulgence when I raid. Nothing like talking to the raid while Little Jimmy Urine squeals out of your speakers.

Montel Jordan's "This is how we do it".

Actually, just techno/trance. Nothing quite beats Dragonforce during new bosses, though. :)

Heh yes they killed all of Garr's adds. The video consists of their whole raid in blues heh. Good times...

I threw hardware at it: I run all of my sound stuff into a professional level mixer (a Yamaha 01V digital, in this case), and have it set to run the computer sound through a ducking compressor keyed off of an input where my iPod plugs in. Essentially, whenever computer sound goes above a certain volume, music drops by ~35 dB.

http://radiationnow.net/photography/.../feb20_800.jpg - the silvery thing with faders is where "the magic" happens. And before anybody makes fun of my horrible horrible chair, it's been replaced.

You *might* be able to replicate the behavior with http://nrcde.ru/music/software/eng/vac.html and some kind of audio software capable of doing realtime compression, though I haven't tried. Good luck if you do; I suspect a lot of people would be interested if you can get it to work.

I just want to say that the flower print on your chair is awesome and should have been preserved when you got your new chair.