What is a quickie? *Ahem* You poor innocent child. Yes, I’m using the word as a double entendre. The general polite definition is that a quickie is something done quickly and usually does not involve much preparation or clothing removal.
I like to listen to music as I paint miniatures or write. One of my favorite artists is Samurai Master Masakey. I especially love to listen to something from his Samurai Girl series when I’m painting Cyberpunk or Sci-Fi.
The best thing about Samurai Girl videos on his YouTube channel is there are no commercials in the middle of the music.
Here’s a link to his website: Masakey
I really love the mix he loaded today:
Now, I do not listen to EDM or electronic dance music every time I paint, BUT, I do listen to it a lot. For example, when I paint horse & musket miniatures, I listen to a playlist of SYW & Napoleonic marches.
Let me know what you like to listen to when you engage in your hobby and why.
That’s it for this quickie, so for heaven’s sake, put your clothes back on!
Atomic Floozy Adventures 
Responses
I have collected a number of cds to listen to while building various armies. Unfortunately, ancient music doesn’t seem to have survived, but I do have a cd of reconstructed Viking music to listen to while painting Dark Age figures. For Colonials, I have the band of the Gordon Highlanders playing Scottish marches and the Garde Republicaine band playing French military marches including the Foreign Legion march. Back when I painted my 1897 armies, I got a cd of Greek military marches and the nice people at the Turkish embassy sent me a cd of mehter music performed by the Old Janissary Band. Finally, I have two rembetika cds to listen to when I work on my WWII Greeks. Not for painting, but I use the trumpet/alpenhorn call from the Kirk Douglas/Janet Leigh/Tony Curtis film The Vikings as the ring tone on my phone.
No, no, no, to properly paint Colonials, you should listen to Gilbert & Sullivan like I do. Lol, you have a great list & I do like bagpipes, which always urges me to paint that pile of unpainted Jacobites for the ’45! Hope you are having a good Summer, it’s unreasonably hot here in Dallas.
Well, hello there, Floozy!
Greetings from wild & woolly Cymru (Wales, part of the UK … sort of).
Granted, I’m a bit behind the times in replying now, but I’ve only really just discovered your blog … very nice, and lots of 5150 & WH too.
Music, eh? When painting I try not to listen to anything too … twitchy … (I’m not a good painter, and my eyesights not improved with age either) … classical & calm is good with brush in hand for me … certainly no Tocatta and Fugue … (think I spelt that wrong … oops).
But when gaming … for 5150 (and most sci-fi) I’ll play Jean Michel Jarre, or a suitable film soundtrack (Red Planet, The Fifth Element, Predator … whatever fits the games theme, really).
For fantasy there are always more soundtracks, but I prefer either Dead Can Dance, Steeleye Span or Circulus, all folk or folk-rock.
I’ve enjoyed reading your work – many thanks for the effort you obviously put into this.
Suitably seasonal greetings & felicitations!
Best wishes, Vic