andrei.xyz Music Hour*
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
OCC 2025 Party
andrei.xyz - Music Hour*
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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