Frank’s mixes

I thought I’d try something different. This one is over twice as long as the usual mixes (which means it won’t fit on one cd - sorry). The idea was to try and get a lot of different types of stuff on it. Soul, Jazz, Funk, House, Broken, Latin, Afro-beat, Disco, Balearic. It’s a bit of an epic in more ways than one. I actually recorded (or thought I recorded) it on Monday night but the file didn’t save properly to my computer (had to happen for the really long mix, didn’t it) so after abandoning the third rescue attempt, I went ahead and re-recorded the whole thing last night in the same sequence, adding in one extra track (04.).

32 Tune mix: 06-09-12thirtytwotunemix.mp3. File Size is 225.9 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 2:44:30.

Frank McGahon: 06-09-12 Thirty-Two Tune Mix

Here’s a new one for June. This is another diverse type mix with a bit of everything - new, old, Balearic, Brazilian, Jazz, Funk, House, Breakbeat & Broken and a range of tempos from about 105 to 140 bpm.

June mix: 06-06-07.mp3. File Size is 101.9 mb, encoded at 192kpbs, runtime is 1:14:21.

Frank McGahon: 06-06-07 mix

I’m going to be dj-ing at Discotonic in Dublin on May 27 (details here) and have been putting together some records I might like to play. This is the second of my Discotonic practice mixes and, even though it sags a little in the middle, I’m much happier with this one than the first one. I’m not sure if I’ll actually play many (or even any!) of these tunes at Discotonic but this is the type of stuff I’m thinking of playing: 06-05-11discotonicpractice.mp3. It was encoded at 192kbps, file size is 102.3mb, runtime is 1:14:25.

Frank McGahon - 06-05-11 Discotonic Practice Mix

This is one I did last year featuring a mix of rare groove, disco and paradise garage type stuff: 05-02-14raregroovediscogarage.mp3. File size is 71.7 mb and it was encoded at 128kbps, runtime is 1:18:17.

Frank McGahon 05-02-14 Rare Groove to Paradise Garage

One more from the archives before I post the latest new mix. This was my debut guest appearance on Power FM in April (I think!) 1994. The occasional voice-over is Brian from Power FM. It was ripped from a 90 minute cassette, encoded at 192 kbps and is in two parts.

Side 1 here: 94-04PowerFm1.mp3, file size is 64 mb, runtime is 46:33.

Side 2 here: 94-04PowerFm2.mp3, file size is 63.1 mb, runtime is 45:54.

Frank McGahon 94-04 PowerFm side 1

Frank McGahon 94-04 PowerFm side 2

Here’s another one from the vault. The newer mixes are getting pushed off the page so please scroll down or click on the current mixes link in the sidebar, there’s plenty of good stuff down there. This is a mix I made around the time I used to do Domingo (with Conor Griffin) at the Spirit Store in Dundalk and features the sort of stuff I used to play there. The recording quality is mostly good but there’s a bit of clipping now and then. It was ripped from a 90 minute cassette, encoded at 192 kbps and is in two parts.

Side 1 here: 01-04-23mixtape-1.mp3, file size is 63.7 mb, runtime is 46:21.

Side 2 here: 01-04-23mixtape-2.mp3, file size is 63.1 mb, runtime is 46:55.

Frank McGahon 01-04-23mixtape side 1

Frank McGahon 01-04-23mixtape side 2

Latest mix now uploaded: 05-12-01mix.mp3. File Size is 107.5mb and was encoded at 192kpbs, Runtime is 1:18:17.

Frank McGahon: 05-12-01mix

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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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