I find that Trance and other electronic music like the author listens to works well with coding, I listen to DI.FM's trance station all day/night while working despite the fact that I'm a big heavy metal fan and wouldn't normally listen to trance.

I find the lack of lyrics, and the fact that it's not a song I particularly love (ie, I'm not going to get distracted by how good the song is), makes it fade into the background - behind my thoughts.