#compiles

[vincent-garcia]

Compilations

Back in 2009, as I was still in high school, I started creating music compilations so we’d have music to listen to with my parents as we’d drive down our summer holiday’s location.

The car didn’t have bluetooth nor any USB slot back then, so they would take the form of 5 CDs of ~80 minutes, packed in Orange / Green / Blue / Violet and Pink plastic boxes, for a total of ~6 hours of music. Each was meant to be read from top to bottom, usually telling a story.

Today, even if I’m not following them during their summer hols and their car cannot read CDs anymore, the tradition remained. Every year, the day they travel is my deadline to create those 5 compilations, loaded on an USB drive.

They’re no longer travelling playlists to me now but rather serve as a musical summary, reminding me people I met, things I worked on, gigs I went to, places I visited this year… and I really hope I’ll be able to keep doing this for the rest of my life.

As a common Spotify User, I’ve compiled (lol) all of them as playlists. It was about time I made covers and shared those somewhere. You can find them all here.

(of course, many tracks aren’t on Spotify so I HAD TO document them all in a google spreadsheet… for the record…) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aZ05Oi1Pp0bJ54Apng-t_vIXlfAt40EhY6QNQQd2vnI/edit?usp=sharing

[thecodinglove]

When it successfully compiles at first try

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[thecodinglove]

When it compiles exactly as expected

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[vincent-garcia]

Some of my favourite compilation covers.

They’re all moments captured or places visisted during the year of the compilation, which it strongly reminds me of. (strong lockdown vibe for 2020, aye?)

[vincent-garcia]

My yearly compilations from summer 2022.