"To be fully engaged in your own creative or logical challenges, while at the same time fully on board the emotional rails of the musical ideas of another person can make for an experience not dissimilar to meditation — but rather than focussing on the simplicity of nothingness while swatting away introspective daydreams, you are engulfed in enough complexity to cause introspective daydreams to burn up on re-entry."

Sounds interesting. But why does the author think this is music for programming? In my opinion, the music is not uniform enough and there is too much going on, which distracts me. When this music is playing, I listen to it and stop programming. Bach or Steve Reich work better for me to stay in the programming flow.