Jan 30
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
01. Ocells Del Mes Enlla Part 3 – Jordi Sabates
02. Tambu in 7/4 – Cal Tjader
03. Pursuit of the Pimpmobile – Isaac Hayes
04. Melting Pot – Booker T and the MGs
05. Dreamin’ a Dream – Crown Heights Affair
06. Standing in the Rain – Don Ray
07. Don’t Go Lose it Baby – Hugh Masekela
08. You Can Do It Baby (Beats) – Nuyorican Soul
09. Solina – Jedi Knights
10. The Child (K-Dope mix) – Alex Gopher
11. Ghetto Music – House of Whacks
12. Phuture Soundz – Amalgamation of Soundz
Frank McGahon 01-04-23mixtape side 2
12. Phuture Soundz – Amalgamation of Soundz
13. Alegre – Truby Trio
14. Dangerous Seduction – Darkman
15. Got the Bug – Bougie Soliterre
16. Number One – Patrice Rushen
17. Where Were You? – The Trammps
18. I am – Yukuhiro Fukutomi
19. Nana Nomura – Nu Era & Pavel Dego Kostiuk
20. Church Candles – KV5 feat. Nicky Taylor
21. Wind & Sea – AtJazz
22. Sound Travels – Nathan Haines
Jan 14
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
01. Latin Strut – Joe Bataan (Salsoul)
02. Take it Easy (Kenny Dope edit)- Brass Construction (Kay-Gee)
03. I Can’t Help It (TangoTerge edit/remix) – Michael Jackson
04. Baby, I’m Scared of You (edit/remix) – Womack & Womack
05. Play Tha Game – Bakura (Especial)
06 [?] – BB Boogie (Bitasweet)
07. Bar a Tym – Kerri Chandler
08. Blaze Theme Track – Black Rascals (Sumo)
09. Spiyanko – Spikiri feat. Hugh Masekela (Vega)
10. Equitoreal – Dubtribe (Jive Electro)
11. Where’s The Monkey? – Sir Eddie Real and the Realistics (Sonar Kollektiv)
12. The Moment (Seiji mix) – Fertile Ground (Counterpoint)
13. The Rain – Reel People (Papa)
14. Where You At? – Blaze (Papa)
15. Rideaway Getaway (US remix) – Agent K (Giant Steps)
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Jan 14
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
1. Voices Inside My Head – Common Sense 1983
2. Space Funk (Kenny Dope remix) – Manzel 2002
3. Think Twice – Detroit Experiment 2003
4. I Can See The Future (Ski’s Instrumental mix) – Incognito 1999
5. Holiday (Dope Dub) – Roy Ayers 2005
6. Adore (Scuba Mix) – I:Cube 2000
7. Love – Ron Trent 1999
8. Maze – Amalgamations of Sound 2004
9. Sueno Latino – Sueno Latino 1989
10. The Light – Reel People 2004
11. Like A Butterfly (You Send Me) – 2001
12. Antigua (Bob Sinclair Amour Kefe mix) – Tom & Joy 2005
13. It’s All Over – Alice Russell 2005
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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