Ok, so here’s the second mix for July I promised below. This one is more orientated to new and recent stuff and also features House, Broken and Jazz with a bit of an Afro-beat flavour to the first track:
Second July mix: 06-07-11julymixtwo.mp3. File Size is 100 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:12:47.
Frank McGahon: 06-07-11 July mix two
Got another slightly deeper mix - mostly between about 108 and 118 bpm. There’s a mix of old, recent and new stuff and it opens out towards the end into a bit of funk and afro-beat. The transition between 06 and 07 is a bit sketchy but I’m reasonably pleased with the rest of it.
Another deeper mix: 06-06-27anothermix.mp3. File Size is 93.2 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:08:02.
Frank McGahon: 06-06-27 Another deeper mix
Here’s a new one. Having had the mixes blog up for a few months now, it looks like the right frequency for new mixes is going to be monthly. Any more frequently than that and I’ll be recycling a lot of tunes which I wanted to avoid. If you are interested in hearing the new mixes but don’t want to check the site every day/week, just subscribe to the rss feed and as soon as the site is updated you’ll be notified. This one has mostly new stuff on it and has a blend of different styles. Starts off with a weird-ish jazz number, then a bit of Ethiopian jazz, some bossa and then some pitched-down-below-120 bpm deepness before getting a bit more manic, finishing off with a brand new rare groove - this 7″ (from Keith Allen’s daughter!) was only released last week and is already sold out (currently at £26 on ebay).
May mix: 06-05-03.mp3. File Size is 93.1 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:07:46.
Frank McGahon: 06-05-03 mix
Did this one over the weekend. Like the Deeper mix it has a combination of newish and old stuff but probably is a little more diverse musically (hence the title). I’m not 100% pleased with some of the mixing on this and contemplated re-recording the whole thing but I decided to put it up anyway, few rough edges and all. 06-02-25Diverse.mp3. File size is 109.4 mb and it was encoded at 192kbps, runtime is 1:19:38.
Frank McGahon: 06-02-25 Diverse mix
This is one I did last night. This one has a little bit of a techno flavour with the Carl Craig, Galaxy 2 Galaxy and techy Seiji mixes. I had to split it into two parts because one record just started skipping and I didn’t really find an elegant way out of it, it was encoded at 192kpbs.
February mix part a: 06-02-09a.mp3. File Size is 44.2 mb, Runtime is 32:09.
February mix part b: 06-02-09b.mp3. File Size is 60.6 mb, Runtime is 44:04.
Frank McGahon: 06-02-09 mix part a
Frank McGahon: 06-02-09 mix part b
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This is another one of my old favourite mixtapes. The tempo is mostly over 120bpm and there are a good few dancefloor tunes on it but it’s much more of a “headphones” mix rather than a party mix. It was ripped from a 90 minute cassette, encoded at 192 kbps and is in two parts.
Side 1 here: 00-03-04mixtape-1.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:20.
Side 2 here: 00-03-04mixtape-2.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:20.
Frank McGahon 00-03-04mixtape-1
Frank McGahon 00-03-04mixtape-2
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This - 05-09-11MAWproductions.mp3 - is a mix I did last year for a friend who had liked the Nu Yorican Soul album but was otherwise unfamiliar with the work of ‘Little’ Louie Vega and Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez. I thought I should immediately address this omission, particularly so as my two favourite Nu Yorican Soul tracks, The Nervous Track and Mind Fluid (included on this mix) didn’t appear on the most widely released version of this album. File is 71mb and was encoded at 128kbps, runtime is 1:17:32.
05-09-11MAWproductions
January mix now uploaded: 06-01-11mix.mp3. File Size is 99.2mb and was encoded at 192kpbs, Runtime is 1:12:12.
Frank McGahon: 06-01-11mix
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Here’s my second upload: 05-10-06mix.mp3. File Size is 103.9mb and was encoded at 192kpbs, Runtime is 1:15:36.
Frank McGahon: 05-10-06mix
This mix was recorded around the same time as the one below but has a slightly different feel, starting with a slightly slower tempo and with a bit more of an organic feel, and a little Balearic influence. It starts off with Began Cekic’s cover version of a Paradise Garage fave, The Police’s Voices Inside My Head. The original is a great tune and was given an extended edit by Dj Harvey back in the mid-1990s for use at his late night/early morning Ruling sessions at the Ministry of Sound. But, I like the feel of this version, with added funk and effects. Next track is Kenny Dope’s re-rub of Manzel’s breakbeat classic, Space Funk. The mix in and out of this this is a little bit rough (but bear with me, it gets better!). Next track sticks with the Space-Jazz-Funk theme, Carl Craig’s rework of Donald Byrd’s Think Twice. It’s not really a straight cover, but is instead based on a breakdown section in the midde. Great driving chord changes. Next track also has some chord-change action and has a nice Jazz-Funk/Boogie flavour, Ski Oakenful’s remix of Incognito. Starts off broken and ends up 4-4 which leads to Kenny Dope’s stripped down dub of Roy Ayers’ Holiday. Normally, I’m not overly keen on contemporary mixes of old tunes, especially so when they mainly consist of quantizing the original record and applying a standard issue 4-4 Kickdrum-based house beat. This is a little different, for starters the old track is not a familiar classic, it was originally written by Ayers to back the campaign for the national holiday now known as Martin Luther King day. This was Roy Ayers’ equivalent to Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday. But it never got released. Ayers has a huge back catalogue of material, to all of which he retained full rights, that for some reason or other he chose not to release at the time. Some of this is being released under the Virgin Ubiquity series by BBE records. The original of Holiday is on Virgin Ubiquity 2 and it is a laidback groove, in the vein of Everybody Loves the Sunshine or Ramp’s Daylight, around 80 bpm in tempo. For this mix, Kenny Dope takes a section of the female vocal, slowed it down and layers a spare groove, little more than bass and percussive 4-4 pattern at twice the tempo of the vocal. This slow-ish sounding vocal stretched over gives a kind of ethereal feel. Which suggested the classic broken King Britt I:Cube remix from 2000. This leads into the balearic-tinged section. The next three tracks all feature some female spoken vocals (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish respectively) and, to me, evoke the original Ibiza vibe, concluding with the classic Sueno Latino. Next is a change with some straight up, Jazz-Soul style 4-4 from Reel People. Leading into MAW’s Razzamatazz-referencing cut for the original female singer on Quincy Jones’ 1980 track, Patti Austin. Breaking up the beat again with some 2005-era Afro-Beat featuring Fela’s original drummer Tony Allen and wrapping up with the organic feel of Alice Russell’s appropriately named All Over.
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