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For my 2025 Old Computer Challenge , there was a creative surprise in plan, but since the challenge was limited to one week, I wasn’t sure if there was enough time. I fired up GarageBand on my PowerBook G4 (since it was already installed), and added together some tracks. And this will become a trend, as I plan to release at least one episode each month, but it depends on what inspiration I have to gather together songs, but it should be easy, considering the different genres of music I listen to, as these mixes will cover more varied genres over time. While the first episode was made on my PowerBook, the next ones will be done on my main computer, because importing the songs and exporting the full episode is very very slow on the PowerBook, which makes me respect the music producers of yesteryear.
* it’s not really one hour
90s Summer Party
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Episode 03: 90s Summer Party
Summer is almost over, so it's time to fire one last time the barbecues, gather some friends and throw in some 90s Summer Party music! Smashing hits from mostly the 90s, spanning various genres and artists, ranging from Kaoma, to Gipsy Kings and J.Lo.
I was initially thinking of releasing these mixes every 2 weeks, but as you can see, I’ve been fairly inactive on the site, because life things kept me away from the keyboard. But almost the entirety of August is behind us, which means that summer is almost over, so it’s time to fire one last time the barbecues, gather some friends and throw in some 90s Summer Party music! The third episode features smashing hits from mostly the 90s, spanning various genres and artists, ranging from Kaoma, to Gipsy Kings and J.Lo, everything you need to start your pool party to properly say farewell to the summer of 2025!
The resulting audio file has 101.6 MB and almost 53 minutes. Enjoy!
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Romanian House Party
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Episode 02: Romanian House Party
Romanian House Party, smashing hits from the turn of the millenium featuring DJ Rhadoo, DJ Project, DJ Phantom, Semnal 303, Van Noizz and many others.
Since the first episode was a quick tour through some old electronic music, focusing on house and trance songs, this episode will be mostly in the same line, but from producers and bands in Romania. Ranging from famous songs like K-pital’s “Vibratii”, to lost songs like the double feature of Semnal 303, the lost project of Alin Nicolescu, it showcases the versatility and diversity of Romanian music back in the day.
The resulting audio file has 115.7 MB and 60 minutes (guess this time it actually IS an hour!). Enjoy!
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by Andrei on
OCC 2025 Party
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Episode 01: OCC 2025 Party
A trip around electronic music, featuring songs by 666, DJ Alligator, IIO, Sash!, Mauro Picotto, Bomfunk MCs, and many others!
For this episode, I decided to take a quick tour through some old electronic music, and as you can see in the bottom corner of the third image in the gallery below, there are mostly house and trance songs.
The entire fiddling took me about two hours, as I already knew pretty much which songs I wanted to add, do a bit of (bad) mixing with absolute zero beat matching and going on vibe mostly. GarageBand was solid as platinum, not crashing even once, and although the 1024x768 display doesn’t offer a lot of real estate, it’s more than enough for what I need. The mixdown creation took about 20 minutes for a file of 54 minutes in length, so that’s not too bad. However, the m4a conversion took about 45 minutes, the CPU sitting at a comfortable 99% load and 63.5ºC, with the rear fan blasting at 6250rpm. WHIZZZZZ I did convert it to MP3, as pretty much any computer can play these files without any additional codecs. The resulting audio file has 108.6 MB and 54 minutes, and is available for listening in the player in this article.
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