Music for hacking

What’s this

This page is about what music I feel helps me a lot when doing certain tasks and specifically playing CTF’s and reading cybersecurity related topics. Somehow, it gets me tunnel vision and concentration on what I do, kinda creating a sense of adrenaline which probably leads to my enhanced concentration. I am just going to write some thoughts I have on this genre of music I’ll be discussing later and providing a list of some of my favorite songs.

Music for hacking…?

Usually, when I play games or doing a task, such as solving a CTF, I really enjoyed listening to music at the same time (ok, who doesn’t:P ). Specifically, for the CTF part, it started with Lo-Fi, then it evolved to Techno and then…I was kinda lost.

I was bored at listening to the same genre of music even if I was finding new songs every day. Until one day, the youtube algorithm actually worked and introduced me to a whole new world of music. I don’t know how new or how old this type of music is, but its name is breakcore. I feel everything actually started of me listening to dreamcore (the complete opposite I would say from breakcore) before going to bed, but I am glad it led to it:)

Breakcore - Is it actually breakcore?

Well, I am no expect and probably a lot of the tracks I will be listing below are either DnB or Jungle, but I will just list them as breakcore cause I don’t really see hear of a difference and thus I cannot differentiate them. So let’s just say this will be a list of tracks from both of these 3 genres.

Also, it has some awesome art covers:

Listing some of my favorite songs

Over time, I made the following separation of my playlists for this type of music:

On the left we have the playlist I call ctf_music and on the right we have the playlist I call ctf_study_music.

ctf_music list of songs

This playlist is more for when some action is going on, let’s say a CTF contest is happening and I am speedrunning a chall. In general, it creates me a sense of adrenaline.

ctf_study_music list of songs

This playlist is more for when I want to concentrate while reading a new topic or writing a post. It creates a weird calming vibe to me and I feel I can concentrate more into what I am reading (and also enjoy the process more).