41. Postcards from summers past

On to another episode of Flashback, Tracks from the Past, the show that takes you back to the golden age of the tracked music scene. One of my favorite works of Tchaikovsky is his Seasons. That's 12 songs, one for every month of the year. July, November and January. They are my favorites. Never mind. Today we're going back to a summer in the mid-90s with a lot of techno-themed track tunes. It's soft, a bit jumpy, but never heavy.

Summer Jamery by FN. was created in 1994, the same very hot summer here in Sweden where we learned about our bronze medal. Yeah, we actually participated in the World Cup and there was a very very famous song called When we're digging gold in USA. In Swedish of course, yeah.But bronze isn't half bad, is it, no?

Hex, Dorian 2 Summer and the tune was from 2003 but hey, let me linger in 1994 for just a while. Ah, Commodore had failed and the Amiga's future was in peril. I had met my first girlfriend, I had a BBS on an Amiga 500 and no concept about the internet. I knew it existed but it was way too expensive to get on.I was working in the super hot summer in the Swedish airport Arlanda, trying to fix the lights, the runway lights actually, with a sandblaster. Super fun if you ask me. Yeah, that was a very special summer for me.

store Summer Fairest Dance. I don't have a year for this one so I'm gonna select a random year. 1991. Yep it was the summer after I got my Amiga 500 and I was the last summer at our old residence in summer residence that is. The family had it on my maternal side and we sold it shortly afterwards.But I was sitting out there in Södermalmland, which is kind of, you know, south of Stockholm and playing all the cool games. I just had to have a hard drive. And still I connected the Amiga to a very, very large 24 inch screen. I was super scared because the screen was big and I was like what? 10 centimeters away from it. So I was thinking maybe if it implodes, it's a big jube there.Maybe I'm gonna get my head sucked in or something. Yeah, weird.

sack of contrasts. A night in June. It was composed in 1997 and released in 2000. So yeah, well I'm gonna select 1997. And the summer of 1997 I worked at Tellia, which was a huge telecom company here in Sweden. Yeah, they still exist. And my Amiga 500 was now replaced with a 1200 and it was feeling a bit long in the tooth.as I was using a PC for most stuff. The BBS was still running, but well, the users were dwindling as internet was all the rage. Everybody was there. We still used modems. No one had broadband, but it was a special summer. I actually spent it with my then girlfriend, Jenny, and yeah, an old Amiga nerd had to admit one thing. The PC was taking hold as well.

Erotic Summer in Hawaii I have not been able to find a year for this one so I'm gonna select one random. It's 2000. We had just survived the 2000 bug, you know, the one that everybody said, yeah, you know, the whole internet and all computers are going to explode and we are back to Stone Age. That did not happen, you know.The Amiga 1200 was shut down in April and I kinda turned the BBS off. Because hey, nobody was using BBS's anymore. And I got my first cable modem. That is my first broadband. Super fast. 640 kilobits per second. I kid you not.

To the loo of DHS Summer Rain. was released in 1998 so... okay, let's do 1998. In February of that year I actually shut down my BBS. It was the first time I pulled the plug, I told everyone it's not coming back. Then I regretted it, but I had deleted all the texts and users so... yeah, I restarted it in April or...if it was March, no I think it was April of 1998 and the results were meager to say the least. I actually talked about that in one of the first podcasts in this series so I'm not gonna mention it anymore but we were all enamored by the WWW. Yeah, yeah internet comes back all the time and the year before Schlager Queen and an entrepreneurHelen Welton sang the infamous song World Wide Web. Sorry, World Wide Web, but okay, that fits too.

This is the revolutionErik Zalitis

Crush, A Summer Love and it was released in 1998 but hey, I'm not gonna repeat myself. So let's do 1999 instead. Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999 and somewhere on that year they actually shut down the old radio station called Bandit and the week before it relaunched it ran one song alone. Yeah, you figured it out. It was that Prince song.yes, 99 was also the year we were so scared that computers wouldn't work. We couldn't see that the whole era of internet boominess, if I may say so, would do anything but, you know, last. You know the result of that, didn't you? Clinton was in office, their Amiga was doing a masterful comeback. Except it didn't. Yeah.

The Ream section, Summer is crazy. It was released in 2001 and that summer was kinda unremarkable if I remember it correctly. I was a bit scared by the boominess going into crashiness as the IT market and the whole internet phenomena crashed and burned. It started in the spring of 2000 but here in Sweden we were on some kind of delay. We didn't see the...bad effects until autumn 2001, at least not we working in big companies like Talia. But bad things were looming on horizon and yeah, know, 11th of September 2001 kinda changed the whole world.

Dürerstein. Summer which wasn't. And which summer you might ask? I don't know which summer it wasn't. So I'm gonna select 1996. That year the Amiga was done for.The last hope kindle was lost in 1995 and I know a lot of development happened after that but most people have given up around autumn of 95 and yeah that was what it was PC was everywhere and the Mac was doing inroads but Apple was having some serious problems yeah things change pretty swiftly if you think about it the bbs erawas kinda waning, but BBS's were still viable and I lost my girlfriend because she found someone else.

circular of the depression summer party the year I don't know so let's do 93 93. Yeah, definitely the summer of 93. I was running around With some newspaper projects. Yes. I was actually delivering them I was writing some articles as well and I dreamed about starting a radio station. Hey, here we areIn autumn of 93 I started my first BBS on an Amiga 500 and I also got a super lightning fast modem. It was a US Robotics 14400 baud or BPS or what do want to call it? Actually, it's BPS.It's silly when you look back at it.

Summer Fields. The year? 1992. In the summer I was with my family on the paternal side at our summer residence or winter residence. What do you want to call it? In Kleppen. Actually it was both. need to think about it. It was quite nice time but a little bit unhappy as my stepmother was diagnosed with cancer and things were not looking too good.Unfortunately she died in 95 so yeah I miss her. In December 1992 I moved away and got my first own home in Aspudden in southern Stockholm and of course the most important part of my stuff was the Amiga 500.

Joggeir Liljedal's Summertime and it was released in 1992 but hey we just spoke about 92 so well I'm kinda out of time here. We've spoken about memories including the Amiga of course because you know that's important. We spoke about BBS's and internet. Yeah all done in a very nerdy or geeky hour. Thank you for listening some music and then time to find another podcast I guess.

JD Summer 98. Okay, we're out of gears. Come on, get it out. This is DJ Demon thanking you for listening and we're going on with the two last songs. It's Menomenous and Not Yet Summer 15 and Zerion Summer Winds. We will be back on Saturday at 9 p.m. Thanks for listening again.